River makes a great show of biting the air when John's hand is near her face. "We'll see, big guy. Though...all seriousness, you'd be doing a great favor to my apprentices. There's only so many smiths and so much work to get done, you being at the learning stage where you have to make nails -"

Both apprentices, in mock tones of spiritual rapture: "The naiiiiiils!"

"- would free them up to start doing more advanced projects, and me up to teach them more than I've been able to."