"You'll be disappointed to know it wasn't wet," he said, a playfully dramatic tone to his voice. Oh pity, no dampness. "But really, the risk of being disarmed or having a staff damaged is interesting because it's easier to improvise things. Ended up in a fight in a Trabian restaurant once. Most of the place cleared out, the guys there had guns. Not exactly the fairest odds. Of course they were trying to capture me to interrogate, and shooting someone for a purpose other than killing isn't as easy if they have healing magic."

He made a gesture as if to say 'and of course you know what that means.'