[ It's a little difficult to text with Slania so comfortably wedged on her, so Alice decides to forget about it. Poor boy, she thinks, he does look terrible. Alice hasn't been doing well at all, but she doesn't want to burden others with that. When she speaks, it becomes clear why she's upset and why the topic pains her. ]

My love has made weapons, bracers, and objects like my ring to give the owner additional power. For an example, the ring he gave me increases my strength. The pair of bracers he had made for me... the left was made specifically to boost to strength and the right increases my strikes with my knife. "The Right Will Be Quicker than Wind', 'The Left Will Be the Guard of a Giant" is what is written on them in that fairy lettering.

[ Alice rests her head atop the sleeping girl taking a pause to swallow back grief. ]

Lancelot was raised by fairies -- I'm confident that the lettering on the things that he made were from his own world. Whatever the dwarves taught him, he did not really discuss with me. The one time I came to see him at the forge I was stopped by them and they offered to remove my... rock for me. He's a talented smith, so they taught him well.