Ah, yes. Every child is given a bit of a lesson about weapons, when they have to handle them, and training starts around seven years. I thought I would cut my own hand off by accident.

[She had qualms about her own children, but they had to start that young to gain the skills they needed as full warriors, and not to mention the requirements of the Fianna were very strenuous. She'd seen not a few youths fail at it.]

Yes, the one of Al-icks- you know I never managed to say that right. It burned? [Grainne seems distressed, even upset.] Oh, I had hoped, someday, I could take a journey there, even if I were a bit old. The ones here in Eros are marvelous, but the description I have heard from traveling bards would put Greta's to shame. Does anyone know how big it was, in your time? Did it really hold all of the knowledge of the world?