"Guns can be useful, but too many people get reliant on them. Lazy, I suppose," she answers, although she looks up at the rest of his answer, green eyes assessing. He's dancing around his words pretty well. Must be more than a few people who've judged him based on his history already. "Makes sense, if you started young. Aside from projectiles, polearms are probably the next best thing to keep whatever you're fighting at a distance, assuming you can move fast enough and know how to balance it." She hadn't gotten a choice in her own weapons training; hand to hand combat starting at eight, escrima at nine, knives and firearms at ten.

"I always preferred closer combat with smaller weapons. Easier to maneuver."