“That’s, um, a bit out of date. Flintlocks went out of fashion almost two hundred years ago.”
He quickly outlined for her the development of percussion caps, primers, cartridges, and smokeless powder.
“I haven’t dared fire this, since I only have a few rounds with me, but everyone assures me it won’t work.” He looked at her quizzically.
Like any good instructor, she composed her response carefully before speaking, laying a foundation for her explanation.
“As you’ve noticed by now, we do trade with the human world. We don’t maintain an industrialized society, and thus make do without many of the products of your world, but there are some items that we simply don’t want to do without and so we make exceptions. We buy lamps and lamp oil, lighters, cotton, and so forth, because they’re too
