You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be always fighting and killing. That's not woman's work."
"It's needful, Ma. You taught me a woman has to know how to defend herself."
"I never!" gasped Sarra, indignant.
"You taught me when you were murdered in your own house," Daine said quietly.

What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.