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Blackstone Foundry and Forge, Thursday

So, there was some kind of visitors-to-the-island thing coming up tomorrow. Didn't matter a whole hell of a lot to Fjord. It wasn't like he even knew anybody who might come visit him.

Not being able to contact his own damn world didn't help that, any.

Was he coping with this by beating the shit out of a piece of hot metal over an anvil?

You bet he was!

When in doubt, be productive.

Violently.

Look, he was in one of the few places of employment where he could get away with it. He was taking full advantage of that.

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Well, at least there'd be coffee!

And waking up on Thursdays to the sound of Fjord already at work downstairs was a strong indication that it would be a pretty good day.

She'd almost feel bad interrupting, but...coffee.

"Morning, Fjord!"

"Mornin', Amaya," Fjord called back, nodding her way from the anvil before picking up the chunk of metal he was working in the tongs, inspecting it for a moment, and then quenching it. "How's it treatin' you so far?"

Sure, she'd probably only been up for about as long as it took coffee to brew, but it was still polite to ask.

"So far, so good," said Amaya, which, honestly, true, she'd only been up about as long as it took to brew coffee, but around here, on some days, that could still be quite an accomplishment. "How about yourself? Think you can handle the shop for the better part of the afternoon? I think it might be a good idea to head on up to the school and make sure giant spiders haven't gone and made a home out of my office or something like that before this weekend..."

She really should be better about remembering that she had an office.

"Pretty sure I can hold down the fort," Fjord agreed with a nod. "Expectin' plenty of visitors over the weekend, are you?"

Fjord? Was pretty grateful he'd more or less given up on teaching again, ever.

"Personally?" Amaya scoffed slightly. "No. But I might as well make it look like I know what I'm doing if any of my students' visitors want to check in, especially for a class like mine. Make sure I'm not likely to send their kids home ones of these days missing a finger or two, probably."

"Slight mutilations are character-building, right?" Fjord smirked faintly. "But nah, that's fair enough. I'm sure out of all the classes bein' offered at a school like this one, yours is probably one of the more reasonable, at least. That oughta win you a few points in people's favor."

"I hope so," Amaya admitted. "Not so much for the approval, of course, but just that people'll find it helpful or useful. Otherwise, what's the point? Not to disparage any other classes, but if I'm not bringing at least that to the table, I might as well call it quits."

"Hey, ain't nobody out there who can't benefit some from knowing how to make things," Fjord noted. "Practical life skills and all. Makes more sense than... whatever the hell else. The classes I taught there."

They were not terribly practical classes.

"What were those classes again?" asked Amaya, tilting her head. "Didn't one of them have something to do with adventuring?"

Or was that just the part of it she'd focused on because of course it would be?

"Kinda like it," Fjord allowed. "There was some adventuring involved, anyway. Made students take on new personas to do it, though. Had 'em keep character the whole time. The other one was... presumably... about makin' friends."

The jury was still out on whether he thought that one had been a total flop, or just mostly a flop.

Shunsui had a ridiculous amount of roses, and he knew there were plenty of beautiful women on island that he could bestow them on. He had to admit, though, as he went about with his bestowing, he realized he really hadn't been nearly as social as he could be, because the list was dismally small. No matter! He'd be out and about, working to change that, and he figured there was no reason why he should let one failed attempt at flirting stop him from including the blue-eyed beauty from Peter's movie class on that list.

Of course, Shunsui hadn't even gotten her name, much less know where he could find her outside of movie class, but, thankfully, he had a lot of sake and the squirrels were very helpful once he'd offered them plenty.

And wouldn't it figure that he had ~~oh-so-conveniently~~ made his way to the forge where they'd directed him once she was out?

"Ah...." he said, once he, with an armful of roses, walked into the forge and looked around and didn't even bother hiding how crestfallen he was to not find Amaya there. "Errr...I think...maybe those squirrels have steered me a bit off course..."

They had been snickering an awful lot when he'd asked, now that he thought about it...

Fjord set down the hammer.

Looked at the man.

Looked at the roses.

And then gave a little snort and picked up the hammer again.

"Pal, I don't think you have any idea just how off course they steered you. Lookin' for someone in particular?"

"Ahhh..." Shunsui's mind went groping again for a name that he was pretty sure he hadn't gotten but he might have? He was still coming up with nothing and feeling like it would be terribly helpful right now. "Yes. Tha apparently quite elusive..." No. Still nothing. "Movie-Class-chan ♥," he decided, which would do for now. "Fierce little firecracker, blue eyes, dark hair, delightfully husky voice, surpringly strong punch..."

Fjord looked again at the roses.

"... She expectin' you?"

Since she had left him to tend the forge alone for the afternoon, even odds were she either had no idea she was going to be accosted by a man with flowers, or she was well aware and fleeing.

And since the man didn't seem to know her name, Fjord was putting the smart money on the first.

"Of course not ♥!" Shunsui said with a laugh. "That'd ruin the surprise ♥! You know her, then? Do you know where I might find her, or at the very least where I can leave for her this splendid bouquet for her to discover in a moment of unexpected delight later ♥?"

"I know her."

He worked for her.

"But if you can't even tell me her name, I ain't so sure I should be just handin' out her whereabouts to strangers. You understand, of course."

"Hardly a stranger ♥," Shunsui chuckled, "we're in movie class together ♥!"

He'd been to a whole two of them!

He intended to go to the last one, but had discovered an exceptionally good nap instead.

"But that's fair Perhaps, then, I could ask a favor of you? Might I be able to entrust it to you to ensure that it finds its way to its lovely intended recipient ♥?"

In fact, Shunsui liked this plan better, it was far less work for him and saved him some sake. Not that he ever really minded sharing with the squirrels, they were hilarious.

Fjord gave a slow blink in reply to that.

And then brought the hammer down on the metal on the anvil. Because it was there and he was doing his damn job, okay?

"Guess I could do that."

The man spoke in ♥hearts♥, clearly he was unhinged. But Fjord had to admit he was at least a little curious about how Amaya would take, 'some weird guy who doesn't even know your name left some flowers for you and called you a bunch of mushy shit.'

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