[ He watches the enormous thing fold up. There are limits to a human's strength, and laws of physics that pertain to mechanical advantage, or disadvantage, when you put a heavy hammer on a long lever arm. So there's something extraordinary — supernatural, perhaps — either about the girl, or the weapon. ]

I see.

No, I don't carry weapons, usually. Most people don't, to a night out at the theatre. Do you go everywhere armed?