"When I first found out, I thought it would be weird," says Gideon. "Like—that it isn't really my sword. Or that it's mine but there's also someone else, like, in there. I thought for a second it might've been helping me fight, that I was cheating, somehow, some kind of magic swordsman guiding my blows or whatever." She laughs. "God, imagine if it was Nonius. Ortus would reconstitute himself just to get wetly mad at me or whatever."