Rose couldn't help but chuckle at the girl's enthusiasm. "Well, your mother is not wrong. I was fortunate enough to be raised by a father who was a knight that did not see a problem with teaching his only daughter how to use a sword. Though none of the swords I have had in the past talked."

She goes to put the wand away and gets a saber type sword off one of the racks. It wasn't her sword, but it was balanced right for her. She turns back to Ivy. "When I got older, the kingdom I lived in started to allow women to become knights, and I jumped at that chance. The title 'knight' was the same for both men and women."