"I play the piano, first of all, but I'm sure there's some nerd bard out there who goes the whole hog medieval route."

She looks positively baffled at this point. "Dude, your generation coined it. I think. How old are you anyway? Were you too old for the whole 80s DnD thing?" She squints at him for a moment. "I can't tell from here. I mean I probably couldn't tell anyway, but that's not the point."

Athena waves that question off. She, too, has no real awareness of how much she talks with her hands. "I really don't get what you want me to explain. I'm a bard. I have the Gift with music."