He's hearing, but he couldn't repeat word for word and only has a basic idea of what Garth'zel is saying, more entranced with the almost delicate designs in the hilt, the difference between the tooled areas and the raised, polished design. It's beautiful, certainly. "Will you turn it?" He's trying to look over the entire pattern. "And what are these?" He points outs knobs for adjusting. "If you break someone's, you can't steal it later?" Why wouldn't you want to do that if you were fighting someone.