Gilead's Craft (2012)
“Fletching was often missing, and shafts broken. The elf cut a long spruce branch, straight and true. Four feet was the minimum cut length for his reach, before planing, sanding and oiling. He flexed one dowel at a time to check its spine. Fithvael had always used a weight and a gauge, but they were in his pack, to which Gilead did not have access. He’d been weighing and balancing arrow shafts in his hands for long enough to know which were true and which should be rejected. The first arrowhead ...was leaf-shaped, carved from bone a hundred years previously by Fithvael. Gilead used it more often for hunting than in combat and it had killed more beasts than he cared to recall. He had shot the woman with it because she was slight and her armour was nothing more than various leather off-cuts cleverly stitched together. He disliked killing women, even those capable of accurately throwing a spear at a moving target, and he always used smaller, finer heads when firing on them. Gilead had found the arrow on the battlefield.MoreLess
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