The Hybrid Huntress
There’s a faint, resinous tang in the air—old iron, oiled wood, and what I can only as gunmetal.
I approach slowly, drawn instinctively to the table, but something about the arrangement makes me hesitate. Swords, knives, axes, blunt instrument hybrids I can’t name, their shadows pooling on the dark tabletop like stains. A half-wall of glass-fronted cabinets along one side displays even stranger things: what looks like a flintlock rifle, a crossbow the size of a cello, an array of silver-tipped arrows in a velvet cradle.
“Hunters are matched to their weapon,” Edward says, coming to stand beside me. “But it’s not like picking out shoes. It’s more… ancestral.”
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