I'll keep that in mind the next time I get blood on my clothes which hopefully won't be any time soon.

[ And certainly not to the extent that the clothes in the basket had suffered. At least they hadn't been her best clothes. And if her clothes were the sacrifice for not having her axe not being crushed under the weight of the dragon's body she supposes it's a worthy one. Not that she'd say that aloud normally.

She gives him a look. ]

Of course I thought about it. But there are so many other lies you could have come up with so why that one?

[ In other words she's still not letting up. ]