Blackstone Foundry and Forge, Wednesday

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord was in a pretty good mood today as he came in for class. His students hadn't rounded on and murdered a wounded metallic dragon and two homeless kobolds yesterday, which he'd halfway been expecting to see happen. And Monday's test run of Amaya's giant shuriken had gone better than expected, too.

... With the exception of a few moments spent on the flats of their backs, but hell, even that hadn't been terrible.

And that was why he was giving the large shuriken a grin as he made his way in to the foundry today. Maybe he was the tiniest bit proud that he hadn't completely biffed it. And it gave him that much more incentive to get back to working on the regular sized ones, keeping a careful eye out for quality as he went.

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[special_rabbit]

But zounds, did that shuiriken look good up there on the wall finally! Amaya had to take a moment to admire it with a grin of her own on her way down into the shop, thinking that now she had to go on and figure out what she was going to do for her next project.

Though the real question was going to be whether she should try to top that one, or if she should simply acknowledge that one couldn't plan greatness like that. It just sort of...happened.

Well, she had plenty of time to think about it, and, for now, she had a hand that needed to be freed from a coffee mug.

"'Morning, Fjord," she said, heading over to hand it off.

[built_fjord_tough]

"Mornin', Amaya," Fjord greeted, grinning and reaching for the coffee. Free up that hand, and all. "And how goes it today?"

[special_rabbit]

"So far, so good." For all five minutes of it. "Just wondering if I should try to jump right into the next project or give it some time to stew a little. I always hate that space between; brain gets just a little too quiet, but it get pretty loud again pretty quickly. Just a matter of the right moment to hit....or the right amount of shiny gold coins to come through the door."

A paying job could be very inspiring, after all.

[built_fjord_tough]

"Not that this island is terribly rife with shiny gold coins," Fjord mused. And then grinned faintly. "Still, I get what you're saying. And you'll be wanting to top that throwing star somehow next, I'm sure."

[special_rabbit]

"I think it might be a while before I top that one, honestly," Amaya admitted, shaking her head as she chuckled a little. "At least, I know I'm not topping it by trying to, not any time soon, anyway. Maybe take on something a little more mild, to cleanse the palate, as it were. Now that the big gap's taken care of, the wall's looking like it could use more fancy work now that that one sword's gone."

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord nodded as he considered the wall.

"Show off your eye for detail and all that?" He glanced back at her, smiling crookedly. "That was a hell of a sword. Little too delicate for my purposes, but the craftsmanship was superb."

He was a long way off from being able to emulate anything that fine, and he kenw it.

[special_rabbit]

"You and me both," Amaya snorted faintly, "and thank you. I do enjoy working on something like that. It can be a real challenge, and you know I love a challenge. And they sell well, too, obviously. Maybe my challenge with the next one like it is to make it, somehow, even fancier."

Almost to the point of being unusable, she wagered, but, ah, now, there would be the delicate balance she'd have to strike!

[built_fjord_tough]

"Now there's something I'd like to see," Fjord mused. "Watching how you one-up yourself for the next time around? Hell, Amaya, you manage to make to fancier and functional, I'll be mighty impressed."

[special_rabbit]

"Well," said Amaya, "there you have it, then. Now that's what I'll have to work on next. I've got an in with a decent gem supplier now, too, after looking into it for some pins."

And Amaya Blackstone was soon about to become their favorite customer. She shook her head, already starting to piece together some ideas and thoughts, and laughed a little. "Here I thought maybe I'd go get some inspiration from the kids in class today, but I should know better by now, that all it'd take was a little brain picking."

[built_fjord_tough]

"Well, any time you need some inspiration..." Fjord grinned faintly, clearly joking. "But hell, Amaya, I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Gems? This is gonna be fancy."

[special_rabbit]

"Only the fanciest!" Amaya assured him. "I've got a reputation to uphold now. Which reminds me; I don't think I've had a chance to tell you the latest slogan I've been workshopping, either. 'Swords so nice...even Seivarden's got one.'"

[built_fjord_tough]

... Please pardon Fjord, Amaya.

That was coffee out his nose.

He really hadn't seen that line coming.

"Shit."

[special_rabbit]

"She approved it and everything!"

Well. She hadn't expressly said no, anyway.

But Amaya threw that out proudly while she gave him a moment to recover, brows lifted, and now even more convinced she'd really struck on something with that one with a reaction like that.

"You alright there, Fjord?"

[built_fjord_tough]

"Yeeeup," Fjord wheezed, needing a moment to just kind of hold his nose and recover from the immediate regret that was coffee to the sinuses. "Never better."

Hoo-hah.