"Well I can help with two of those things. I mean, we have some leather around the shop for shields and the blade." he just scoffs. "Blades.", and laughter.

"The mechanism though... I worked on big machines but... given I can't read blueprints for shit, I'm pretty good at figuring things out. Mind if I look and you walk me through?" He might not have been in 'good' spirits when he walked in, but since it was 'meh', this is working him towards HYPE