Anoki looked Caelwyn dead in the eye and said, with utmost solemnity, "My dear captive, I swear on my shiny polished phallus that I will not ravish you unless invited. Until then, knife tricks it is."
And then, with a little grin, she reached across Caelwyn to the table where there lay a small basket of fruit. (Hey, just because her room was fancy didn't mean it was the most organized!) She plucked an apple from it, then pulled her knife from her belt.
She scooted up onto the bed more and shuffled back from Caelwyn, moving more toward the foot of the bed, to give herself some space. Sitting cross-legged across from him, she held the apple in one hand and the knife in the other. "Now, it's not the most amazing thing in the world, but it's the only one I can do here without putting a hole in the wall. Observe!"
Focusing, she flipped the knife up into the air, then caught it with the apple--with the blade sunk length-wise into the apple, rather than stabbing in tip-first. Removing the blade and rotating the apple, she tossed it again, caught it in the apple the same way, and then repeated the process several more times. One final toss and catch, and she set the knife aside, held the apple out, and broke it apart into perfectly sliced wedges.
With a smug smile, she offered one to Caelwyn. "Hungry?"
