Docile

Docile - adj. easy to manage, control, or discipline; submissive

The boy stood docile, or so appeared, waiting punishment.

The blacksmith threw an almost finished sword into a corner of his forge and blurt out to the tall swordsman who wanted a new weapon, “Damn those dwarfs! Their metal gets worse and worse with every year. It’s too docile. You can’t even forge a decent knife today, let alone a sword for a hero. No, you can’t. There ain’t good metal anymore like that my father and the father of my father had worked with. Yeah, I recall the last chunk of sky-iron I’d seen was that one that dropped in our yard when the father’s father died. No, don’t you think, the chunk killed a dog: the father died laughing.”