[Oh, you silly thing... she brought a hand to that tail and stroked it. There there.]

Not to that degree, no. But I mean that there's uses for archery, and it never hurts to have a backup if your main strategy isn't working.

[She paused, swore, and hid her face against his shoulder.]

Ah, sorry. You've run an entire city with no doubt advanced defenses and measures against an ever-shifting manner of foes. Changes in perspective and 'strategy' have been the name of the game for my dreams of late, so I suppose it bled into... being inadvertently condescending.