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Well, Gustave is said to be one of the finest knights in all of Faerghus, so...
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Listen, do you have a minute to talk?
linkAnnettevolume_up
Of course! What's on your mind?
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I've been thinking about something recently.
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I... I don't know if I'm any use as a knight.
linkAnnettevolume_up
What? Come on, Ignatz, you help us out plenty! Everyone relies on you.
linkIgnatzvolume_up
Do you, though? I mean, I'm a knight, but I don't have any particular skill where I'm outstanding.
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That's, um, why I was hoping I could learn a thing or two from stories about your father.
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Gustave is a legendary knight who served generations of Faerghus kings, after all!
linkAnnettevolume_up
OK, this is making me blush and I'm not even the subject of the flattery.
linkAnnettevolume_up
But hey, I'm happy to tell you what I know.
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Oh, thank you! In that case, let me dive right in... So, um, what sort of training does he normally do?
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He doesn't go a day without training with both the sword and spear. And I'm serious—I don't think he's taken a day off in decades.
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Interesting. So he must've been made a royal knight in recognition for all his hard work, right?
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I'm not sure if it's from hard work, exactly.
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OK, so this might just be one of my uncle's jokes, but my father started working as a soldier at the royal castle when he was even younger than we are now.
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And 40 or so years ago, apparently he saw the previous king—who was just a kid at the time— fall off one of the ramparts.
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So he threw his spear and pinned the young king's clothes to the wall, which saved his life! Anyway, that's apparently what got him promoted.
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That's, um... Well, it's so specific that I can't entirely dismiss it as a joke.
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After that, my father changed his training regimen to include spearing falling leaves onto tree trunks. Hundreds of them every day, I'm told.
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He does all that just for training? I don't think I could pin one leaf, not to mention hundreds.
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Sorry, Annette. I think I've set my sights too high.