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Speechifying & Presenting Blades to Pandora
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Rich used the remote to turn down the music - muggle magic of a sort and called for attention in the traditional fashion with knife on wineglass chiming through the room.

"A brief interruption," he called out with a voice trained to be heard over dragons or across the Quidditch pitch, "to thank you all for coming to help me welcome Pandora to the neighborhood - she has a right smart flat upstairs in the other half of the building, you should get her to show it off if you haven't seen it yet. Also, tonight is a milestone for her in her study of the wizarding sword, which is one of the many things that has been keeping her so busy of late."

"The sword has been with us as long as the wand. Everyone has heard of Merlin's Sword in the Stone, or Godric Gryffindor's sword that Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom used against He-Who-Pushes-Up-Daisies. But in these modern times, the art of the wizarding sword has fallen out of favor for the more easily carried wand. I was fortunate that my family was traditional enough to see I learned that art, and even more fortunate that in Pandora I found a willing and able student to pass that art on through."

He pulled two boxes out and set them on the end of the table. "So to keep this shorter than a History of Magic lesson, for Pandora I have a new sword belt with the buckle of the Journeyman which she now will wear instead of the knot of the Novice, and her new Goblin-forged long and short blades. To those of you who don't study the sword, this is one of those quaint old ceremonies. To those of us who do, this is as big a step as when she qualified for the International Dueling circuit."

Rich motioned Dora closer and with obvious practice put the sword belt around her waist and put each blade in its scabbard. "Your turn for a few words if you'd like," he said softly to her.

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