Her attendants had never seen their swordmistress so shocked. They thought she already knew that. "Yes, swordmistress. He was a demi-human, not a human or a Beastfolk."
The old lady took a second to process that information before she eventually started smiling. "Hahahaha… forgive me for being blind and deaf."
It should have been obvious, given the cloth that wrapped around the old lady's eyes and ears, but her attendants had been so used to their swordsmistress seeing things much better than others that they completely forgot that she was even disabled.
"I really thought he was human because of that thing in his chest. It seems that there's more to him that meets the eye," the old woman said.
Her attendants looked at each other, confused. "Saw what in his chest, swordmistress?"
"It's nothing," the old lady replied. "It's a shame. It seems that fate already has something in store for that unpolished stone. If not, I would have liked to take him in as my student."
