skean

Kyral's face changed as she spoke; he drew a long breath and threw the whip down beside my skean on the floor.

The big lunk made a grab at the girl, and I whipped out my skean and pantomimed.

Suddenly, so swiftly my eyes could hardly follow, he whipped out his skean and came at me.

It is the only thing I could get, but I sharpened it myself; it has an edge like a skean.'

For an instant the shock drove the breath out of Brian, then he felt a hand close on his throat, and struck out with his skean.