[Open] The Finest Weapons And Armor

[kree_soldieress]

Who; Lauri-Ell
What; Doing Blacksmithing Work and Sales
Where; Bay Blades
When; Early June
Warnings; None

Summer, objectively the worst time of year to be a blacksmith, or worse, a blacksmith's apprentice. One might not think it, but it was true. While the forge was more or less at the same range of temperatures all year long, and that throwing off more heat than the summer sun could, the truth remained that in the other seasons you could walk away and cool down some. That was not true for Lauri-Ell in the summer.

For Forgemistress Gili it was easier, Lauri-Ell believed, for the dwarf admitted she was used to heated in cramped spaces. For Lauri-Ell, whose main experience before this world was service on a climate controlled planet, this was quite the experience. They had come up with a system, though, in the last summer she was employed, and that was in use now. Which was 'minimum public decency while working' attire. Given this was for Lauri-Ell a crop top, shorts, and her leather work apron and gloves, it was definitely both too much and too little all at once. She'd clearly already worked up a sweat, but at least she was getting a break as she was putting a finished peace in a bucket of water to quench.

Which is about when she notices the arrival of customers. Which was a better excuse than most to untie the leather straps from around the back of her neck, let the top half of the apron hang loose, and move away from the fires of the forges to see them.

"Welcome to Bay Blades!"

Hopefully the customer wasn't the sort to be scared off, or distracted, by a woman who was over six and a half feet tall, massively muscled, just this side of scantily clad, and most importantly, blue-skinned. Gili would be upset if she accidentally scared off another customer.

Comments

[kree_soldieress]

"Alright," she answered, smiling brightly as she gestured for him to join her by the coffers so she could handle payment.

"Would you like it packaged in any way? And I will of course give you the simple sheathe for it. If you want it done fancier or a belt for it, I can give you information on the leather worker we use."

[orangewayfinder]

Terra shook his head. "No, it's fine as it is. But if she comes here, we can get her fitted for something like that."

He wasn't sure she was going to come back, but he definitely wanted to make sure he was ready if she did.

[kree_soldieress]

Yes, that is wise. "Good, you should do so if she arrives. This place can be dangerous."

[orangewayfinder]

He nodded. "Ya, seems there's even a bit of a rough crowd trying to block the way into the Coliseum sometimes."

And there was no way that Terra would want her to try and even think of facing that on her own.

[kree_soldieress]

Block the way? That seems silly.

"Should we see that they are not doing so any more?"

[orangewayfinder]

He shook his head. "They don't do it every day." And then it occurred to Terra that he hadn't tried to notice a pattern because people just moved for him since they saw that he raced.

Maybe one day that would change though.

[kree_soldieress]

"Well, then perhaps it is a matter for hte guard," she put to him. "There are outposts for them. It would be wise if they acted in this matter, for they serve as the law here."

As she did not. It would be wrong for her to intervene in most cases.

[orangewayfinder]

"The guard." Terra murmured thoughtfully for a moment before looking at Lauri-Ell. "I guess they might be needed up there then at times. It's hard to tell because it's only sometimes that people are like that."

[kree_soldieress]

"It might still be worth the telling, so they know to look out for it."

Because if they do not know to look, can they possibly find?

[orangewayfinder]

That had him wonder. "I guess I can see if they have a tell-phone number and I can use mine to give them a call if there's trouble."

[kree_soldieress]

"This is a reasonable plan to make," she says, smiling at him.

[orangewayfinder]

He nodded with a smile. "I'll do that. And in the meantime, is everything else ready with the daggers?"

[kree_soldieress]

"Yes," she said with a smile, writing a receipt out by hand. Slowly. She was clearly still learning on how to write human language clearly. It was not normally a Kree soldier thing.

Wrap?

[orangewayfinder]

Terra lifted the receipt up and read it, appreciating a hand written receipt. He didn't ever get those back home when he'd sell or trade or buy something. And now it made him wonder why.

But to Lauri-Ell he smiled. "Thanks for all of your help."