Is it wrong that he's seriously considering threatening a child with a knife? Probably. But by all the gods, she is annoying the shit out of him. How can someone this small manage to antagonize him this much so quickly?

"That's nice." Again with the dry sarcasm. He could care less what this child thinks or wants. He can't imagine she'd be much good at swinging a sword. She's a tiny little thing and that dress looks like it weighs about as much as she does. He folds his arms at her next question. "No, you can't. I'm not going to let you hang around where a monster could eat you." On second thought, maybe that would be a good idea to get rid of her...no, no, he'd get in a lot of trouble if he let a monster kill a small eight year old child.

He sits up a little straighter in his chair. "Ivar Ragnarsson, but it's Ivar The Boneless to you, pipsqueak."