I've gotten him to try a few times. It's definitely not his forte.
[But she does appreciate the willingness to try. All things considered, he'd done a decent job when they'd all been on the run.]
Did you really?
[There's a possibility that he's joking. But she thinks it's more likely that it's true. It hasn't escaped her attention that there are enough supplies at his place for two cats.]
Guess I'll just have to convince you not to pull your punches when we spar by using every trick in the book.
they will immediately launch into a game of "guess who the knife belongs to before we go get it"
[But she does appreciate the willingness to try. All things considered, he'd done a decent job when they'd all been on the run.]
Did you really?
[There's a possibility that he's joking. But she thinks it's more likely that it's true. It hasn't escaped her attention that there are enough supplies at his place for two cats.]
Guess I'll just have to convince you not to pull your punches when we spar by using every trick in the book.
[And some tricks she wrote on her own.]