"You can check it out and touch I guess if it that important.
Fargo's excitement is palpable, "Thank'ye kindly." He shambles over to the spear and hefts it, examining the extending flame-blade, and the base of the spear.
Figure you want to see important end with runes and stuff. I think it says 'When it is my turn, I will show you my power.' "
Fargo nods in agreement...and thought. A light seems to enter the dwarf's eyes and his jaw hangs a little,
"Nah. I' couln' be..." He upends the spear and grips the bottom of the shaft with his hands, where the runes are inscribed. Giving the shaft a twist, the butt of the spear unscrews revealing a cylindrical compartment in the base of the spear. As Fargo rights the spear again, he holds his hand below the empty compartment as if to catch something. A faint sliding noise is heard from inside the spear, and a ghostly blue light grows in the palm of Fargo's hand until a small crystalline cylinder (about 3 inches in length and a half inch in diameter) drops into it. The cylinder is transparent-blue and appears to contain a violent, yet silent storm. The dwarf's fingers close around the carved stone, his face in a contorted image of pain,
"Tis... th'... real.. thin'...." He looks around, "A pouch.... A pouch..."
Talon offers a belt pouch, and Fargo places the stone in the pouch, still being held by Talon. Then he squeezes the handle on the spear.... The blade extends, but there is no luminous display as was previously seen,
"Righ' lad. Na' th' stone."
Talon, not quite understanding, but curious, gives the pouch to the sailor, who slides the stone back into the butt of the spear and screws the pommel back on. With the spear reassembled, Fargo tries the handle once more. As the blade extends, the expected blue electric arcs (curiously they are the same color as the stone) shoot upward and scatter across the ceiling like so many cloud-to-cloud lightning bolts. Fargo laughs and hands the spear back to Talon,
"Tha' there's a legun' ye go' i' yer 'ands. Don' le' i' slip from ye na." He gives the shifter a wink.