( closed ) embrace like an avalanche

[villieldr]

WHO: Lakshmi & Magni
WHAT: working with an ex with awkward, sometimes
WHEN: mumbles vaguely
WHERE: smithy
NOTES:

( The hours in the smithy are long, working iron into steel and steel to blades. She is hammering at something when the door opens, presently alone in her work, beating hammer to metal with a steady rhythm. Her skin seems almost to glow in the light from the forge, and her skin runs with sweat from the heat of it. Such a heat might be oppressive to a good many, and that she could hardly fault them for.

The door opening hardly means inherently that someone needs her attention, and so she pays it little mind, stepping to the bellows to make the fire burn more fiercely, so that the blade she is presently working on can be re-heated once more, as she continues to progress with it. It was not that she lacked for work generally speaking, but with a battle lurching closer, many more blades and weapons needed making.

It's when she is collecting up the blade that she looks towards the door, and stops.

Ah. )

Comments

[shri]

[ All horses needed shoes and her horse - her horse was going to have the best she could afford. She would spare nothing for her and there is an easy simplicity to that, as she leads the mare along. Because it is a magnificent beast, or so she would say so herself.

Except for its temper. That was absolutely foul. For that reason especially it is kept close behind her on its harness, and her eyes are mostly on it - making sure she didn't try to slip free to bite someone ( or Lakshmi herself ). Distracted with keeping it close, and enough of one that -

... She didn't think this all the way through when the only person in the smithy is Lakshmi. Her breath sucks in as her head turns back, and spots who happens to be the only person in the whole damn shop. ]

Talonhold. [ She nods her head in greeting, stiff and brief. They could be adults about this, surely? ] I was looking for a farrier.