"Your fingers would recall their own strength better if they grasped your sword."

[memnus]

The nice thing about Sting, as compared to larger weapons, is that I can (albeit carefully) swing it around in my room and not hit anything unless I try. I let some of my energy bleed off by taking it up, swinging it through a few clumsy slices and stabs. I had an insane urge to sharpen it, to use it to destroy rather than merely exercise. More in the long term, in a more stable frame of mind, I want to learn to swing it more expertly, not look like a wannabe with a sword but at least like I could fight with it. Actual fighting, no - that sword cost me too much to chip and dent it in even controlled parries and stabs against a similarly armed opponent - but some martial meditations I could go through. Or wantonly destroy aluminum cans when I'm really angry.

That sword is coming back to school with me, yes indeed.

Add to to-do over break:

-Rig Sting's plaque to hang from my bed in the dorm
-Find, make, or scavange something to use as a scabbard
-Get something better than that wax paper to transport it in

I am going to try to sleep now. It is not likely that I will have much success. Rotated schedule, anyone?

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Comments

[memnus.livejournal.com]

I've taken it on an airline before, on an overseas flight no less. I'll just keep it in its cardboard box, in my checked luggage... but I will look into the legal in CA thing.

[artemis-lizzie.livejournal.com]

You'll probably want to *really* look into the whole legal in CA thing. We're bastards about weapons. You can't have a weapon in a car, you cannot carry a concealed weapon, you cannot carry an unconcealed weapon. CA really doesn't want you to have weapons. However, there are ways of getting swords into the state. Make sure you pack in in you checked luggage, and don't even open in until you get back to your dorm room at Mudd. Try as hard as you can not to let the suitcase anywhere near a metal detector, lest you get immediately arrested.

[csn.livejournal.com]

there's nothing illegal about having swords as long as you don't carry them around on the street.