Farnese Quotes

Miura punctures this himself, one panel later, and he is right to. Schierke's answer is flat: "But... that is just a silver knife, so..." Farnese insists that to her the dagger was undeniably magical, and the elf beside Schierke mutters that everything she says is exaggerated. The speech has the structure of a vow, protect someone, find courage, name the source, and the payoff is an object its own giver calls just a silver knife. That is the trouble with it as a quotable line. Lifted out, it reads as a declaration of faith in magic; on the page it is the former leader of the Holy Iron Chain Knights overcrediting a tool because she cannot yet credit herself. Casca is named first and then passed over for the knife. The more interesting phrase is the qualifier in the middle, "even one such as I," and the speech hurries past it toward the dagger. The request it explains, made on the page before, is sincere; the explanation gives the credit to everything but her.