Both Uses

delicacy
in
An Ember in the Ashes
(Edited)

I look past her, into the distance as I've been trained to, and her cold glare bores into me with the delicacy of a blunt knife.
p. 78.8 *

delicacy = sensitivity and tact
I cut open her shirt with my dagger, jolted for a moment by the delicacy of her skin.
p. 162.9 *

delicacy = pleasant subtlety or fineness

Definitions:

(1) (delicacy as in: eat the delicacy)
something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food
(2) (delicacy as in: discuss with delicacy)
care and gentleness -- especially speaking or acting with sensitivity and tact
(3) (delicacy as in: offend her delicacy)
the quality of being easily hurt or damaged

(often referring to the fragility of someone's emotional well being when it is easily distressed by something that is offensive or disturbing)
(4) (delicacy as in: delicacy of the brushwork)
pleasant subtlety or fineness
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)