"Pretty soon Gaston hit two and now he wanted to be a swordsman. Before that, he didn't really have a clear idea of what the guards did, he just thought they looked cool. Now, he wanted to be a cool swordsman more specifically, Still. I did know that training too much so young could cause him issues so I did my best to encourage the guardsmen 'training' him to make it all seem like tougher training then it was,
"The best idea me and the boys came up with was pretty funny in the end. We'd give him a stick and tell him to hold it with his arm out straight for as long as he could. Which was basically nothing at all, so he spent more time glaring at the stick than lifting it. It did however keep him focused. We'd tease him about not being able to do it with a stick when the men could use a metal sword. He'd puff his cheeks up and glare at me when I said it. Made it very hard not to laugh.
