Which was a thought he'd already had, but he wasn't going to voice that. Really, it would sound like he's arguing, and he doesn't want to do that. So he smiles graciously as he takes her comment. That works for him.

"Part of why I use polearm styles is because, even with a shortened weapon, the principles are such that they can be improvised onto a good variety of lengths of wood. It was an easy thing to improvise. Granted, that isn't all my style was, but it was useful. Clubs would suit that well as well."

With that he moves from where he was, walking toward a closet off to the side, inviting her to follow him. Ignore the limp please. Soon he's got the closet door open to show how meager of a collection of starting weapons they have, and all wood.

"We're going to have to take time to get up to something suitable. But with actual clubs I would want to know if you'd just be starting them with a feel for weight or size, or if you want to go straight for having to deal with something with a strange weight on the end, more like a maul. If it's that, I'll start trying to find ways to get padded things together post-haste. Sometimes people really underestimate the sheer force that is amplified with a lever. It's distressing how casually I've seen some people swinging bo staffs around."