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Friends and Gifts

Who; Lauri-Ell, Yuki
What; Giving a Gift and Making Friend
Where; Yuki's Dorm
When; April 1st
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Adjusting to life here has not been easy, especially with how people were not given to staying. Her friends were mostly gone now, and Lauri-Ell was lost. She had given more time to her blacksmithing training, and she had even started to move on to making her own small projects. The latest one was a pair of J-hooks. They weren't the first ones she had made either, and Gili had taught her how to curl the end on itself. It was a pair of these she had brought today to knock on the door of one person she did know was still around.

She knocked and considered, waiting. Perhaps Yuki would be there, willing to see someone too.

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"Your..boss?" Yuki asked wonderingly. She had a boss? Well then again if she worked he supposed that would definitely be a thing. Bit to her offer of them working together to find a solution, he nodded.

"Yes, as a team."

Well she could hardly learn how to blacksmith if she didn't have someone to teach her.

"Yes. She is good with working metal," Lauri-Ell offered with a smile. "She is smaller than you, but very strong."

He had to smile a little because the description fit Miss Honda, Machi and Kisa all at the same time. They were smaller than him and all were very strong.

"Sounds like you have a great teacher then."

“The best. She let me make these of scrap metal. She said she is going to teach me to draw wire.”

And Lauri-Ell’s voice sounded like that was the best thing ever. For her it was. It meant her master was going to teach her something very helpful and productive beyond just nails.

Yuki cocked his head to the side. "Draw wire?" And he had no idea what that meant to draw wire. Was it that the teacher meant that she was going to learn to make wire? Well he wasn't going to presume he knew, so he waited to hear what Lauri-Ell had to say first.

"It is how metal wires are made," she said, speaking with quite a bit of excitement. "One takes metal that has been worked into a slim bar and heat it cherry red hot, and then taper the end of it and put it against a metal plate with holes cut into it. You then use tongs to grip the metal and someone holds the plate while the other worker pulls the metal through. I'm told you have to pull with slow and constant pressure. Then when the whole wire is pulled through you replace it on the heat to let it pick up warmth again for the next smallest hole."

She grins widely at this. The wire is good for so many things.

"You work many coils through the day to put them to various gauges of wire, which is good. I am very excited."

He listened and it sounded as if she was working on a project. "Coils..you mean for something like a stove?" Surely that was what she was talking about. "Or are the coils used for something else?"

He himself didn't use metals and metal working had never been anything that he'd done. So he had to ask questions even if he did feel a little bit sheepish at having to ask them.

"Stove? Why would a stove need coils?" she asked, clearly confused. "No, coils of wire. They just heat until you work them through a plate to become smaller and smaller wires. Then, once finished and cooled, they go onto spools."

It was truly beautiful, wooden spools covered with the beautiful glint of polished metal. She thought it was perhaps one of the most beautiful things. Given time, she might even go into jewelry focus.

"Spools of wire?" Yuki wasn't sure where she was going with this. "So..you heat them and they cool..what are they used for?" He was thinking too literal maybe, trying to find a practical use. But there was nothing of metalworking that he knew of that would cover a such a thing but he of course would listen and try to understand.

"Well, many things," she said. "Like chain mail. Or jewelry. I do not know all the other purposes. I am still an apprentice."

But her strength will be useful in wire drawing, which was why she was doing it earlier than normal.

"Oh." There was wonder in Yuki's tone as he said that. "I hadn't guessed about jewelry. That must take an awful lot of patience, even if you're doing chain mail."

That gave him a thought and Jacob's sensei came to his mind.

"Do you do custom orders for chain mail?"

"Yes. It will be nice to learn. Patience will help me keep going, and the small task will be useful at night," she said, nodding along.

Still, the question makes her nod.

"I have learned how to measure someone for a set. My boss makes it thought."

"Ah, night time." That was the time he used to read books or just try to give his brain the slow down option. Most of the time it worked but there were some nights he wished he had an 'off' button.

He had no idea how much chain mail would cost so he had to ask. "Is it expensive to make? Does it take a long time?"

"I work much of the day with the smith," Lauri-Ell said. "Evenings are my time to be restful and productive for myself," she explained with a smile.

No, Lauri-Ell did not keep much time for herself.

"I can ask for you, and tell you tomorrow."

Evenings off Yuki could completely understand. He worked during the day at the office and went home at night, so he knew how precious those hours were after being done for the day.

"As long as you don't mind, then yes please let me know."

"I do not mind," she promised with a grin. "I like time with you."

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