diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index 3a546a1ae..acbd2db0a 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -327,28 +327,30 @@ asmodeus or unhappiness. [ Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ] athame - The consecrated ritual knife of a Wiccan initiate (one of - four basic tools, together with the wand, chalice and - pentacle). Traditionally, the athame is a double-edged, - black-handled, cross-hilted dagger of between six and - eighteen inches length. + The consecrated ritual knife of a Wiccan initiate (one of four + basic tools, together with the wand, chalice and pentacle). + Traditionally, the athame is a double-edged, black-handled, + cross-hilted dagger of between six and eighteen inches length. + [] A belt made from a twisted braid of silken threads of gold wound around her waist, and a dark-handled knife rested on a slant at her hip through a loop in the belt. [...] - She arched her brows. "You should know better, dear godchild. You - know I cannot speak what is untrue. During our last encounter I - returned to Faerie with great power and upset vital balances. Those - balances had to be redressed, and your debt was the mechanism that - the Queen chose to employ." - I frowned at her for a minute. "Returned with great power." My eyes - fell to the knife at her waist. "That thing the vampires gave you?" - She rested her fingers lightly on the knife's hilt. "Don't cheapen - it. This athame was no creation of theirs. And it was less a gift - than a trade." - "Amoracchius and that thing are in the same league?" Gulp. My faerie - godmother was dangerous enough without a big-time artifact of magic. + She arched her brows. "You should know better, dear godchild. + You know I cannot speak what is untrue. During our last + encounter I returned to Faerie with great power and upset vital + balances. Those balances had to be redressed, and your debt was + the mechanism that the Queen chose to employ." + I frowned at her for a minute. "Returned with great power." My + eyes fell to the knife at her waist. "That thing the vampires + gave you?" + She rested her fingers lightly on the knife's hilt. "Don't + cheapen it. This athame was no creation of theirs. And it was + less a gift than a trade." + "Amoracchius and that thing are in the same league?" Gulp. My + faerie godmother was dangerous enough without a big-time + artifact of magic. [ Summer Knight, by Jim Butcher ] athen* Athene was the offspring of Zeus, and without a mother. She