I'll take you up on that. The sooner I'm up to speed on it, the better. [And all the rest, too. That big guy did good work with an axe.]

[They had some metal fabrication going here? He hadn't expected that.] A sword would be good. A proper knife would serve me better right now, though. And there's a lot of practical work for a knife that a sword can't match. [Preferably, he'd want both. Never go anywhere without a backup plan.]

If we've got any capacity for it, any leftover metal might want to go towards reinforcing doors and windows on a defensible part of this compound. If this place gets attacked, we've got limited fallback positions here. Best not to run through them too quickly. [No idea how much that would take, but this place being made mostly of wood was not his favorite thing in the world.]