>>Well, since you asked, I do; and the reason why is fairly simple. By
>>the time he was skilled enough to make a good showing at a complicated
>>design like a Japanese sword, Kate already had her zatoichi. As for
>>Leonard, he's not at the real-blade level yet; he's still working
>>entirely with bokuto.
>>
>That wasn't clear from Reflections in Transition... I actually
>expected him to be fighting with steel since you mentioned that he was
>a journyman and not just a novice like T'vek.

Well, OK, I correct myself. Leonard is advanced enough that, in the dojo, with his father, he's doing some work with steel (mainly iaijutsu and the like, rather than actual combat training, at this point). He's not to the point where he'd be issued his own blade and expected to carry it with him, like Kaitlyn does.

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