08-08-2018, 03:23 AM
[align=center][div style="width: 470px; font-size:9pt; font-family:calibri; text-align: justify;line-height: 110%; color:black"]This would be her first consultation in quite a time, her mind struggling to draw forth the memory of the last. She had taken a break from her forge a few months before everything had come crashing down, left to burn as she ran, terrified and alone. Guilt had touched her within those first days for she had chosen to save her tools rather any the family heirlooms she permitted to burn, seeing little worth when they had abandoned her, pushed aside simply for embracing who she was. Many times she had thought about simply throwing the tools into the ocean, allowing them to sink to the bottom and be forgotten, but something had held her back. It might have been a simple selfish desire to continue her work, once a proud smith she wanted it once more, to feel the heat upon her fur and feel the thrum of excitement as she shaped steel, but fate seemed to have something else in store for her.
It seemed a miracle that this place welcomed her and the profession she longed to once more work, though finding a place to build her forge had been a hardship she had cared little for. Where once she had a forge her own, grand and well worn, given the tender love of many before her, what she had now was simple and small, tucked away into a cave in the mountain which surrounded the floating village. But it was hers, touched by none but her own paws, a place familiar though it was strange to her, a home where her original forge had never been such.
Either through a stroke of luck or the simple gossip of those about her it was easy for Ishayu to pick up on the fact Monroe sought some work, just what she was unsure for such detail had been left out, but it was enough to excite her. With her forge prepared she had set about setting up a meeting within her home, preparing a meal and tea so they might talk over what work he needed to see if she might be able to do it.
Early that day the mountain lion had dropped by his home and traded a few of her finds for a fresh salmon, leaving the hybrid with an invitation to drop by her home around lunch time so they might talk, deciding to leave off her reasoning for such. It was around the time he was supposed to turn up and so she set the low table which sat besides a little kitchenette at the back of her home, placing two plates upon blue knitted place mats. She had grilled the salmon and had put with it a pile of steamed vegetables she had tossed with a little oil and herbs, a small cup of white tea placed beside each plate.
A soft hum parted her lips as she fixed the vase of wildflowers she had set at the table's centre, keeping an ear out for a knock upon the door.
It seemed a miracle that this place welcomed her and the profession she longed to once more work, though finding a place to build her forge had been a hardship she had cared little for. Where once she had a forge her own, grand and well worn, given the tender love of many before her, what she had now was simple and small, tucked away into a cave in the mountain which surrounded the floating village. But it was hers, touched by none but her own paws, a place familiar though it was strange to her, a home where her original forge had never been such.
Either through a stroke of luck or the simple gossip of those about her it was easy for Ishayu to pick up on the fact Monroe sought some work, just what she was unsure for such detail had been left out, but it was enough to excite her. With her forge prepared she had set about setting up a meeting within her home, preparing a meal and tea so they might talk over what work he needed to see if she might be able to do it.
Early that day the mountain lion had dropped by his home and traded a few of her finds for a fresh salmon, leaving the hybrid with an invitation to drop by her home around lunch time so they might talk, deciding to leave off her reasoning for such. It was around the time he was supposed to turn up and so she set the low table which sat besides a little kitchenette at the back of her home, placing two plates upon blue knitted place mats. She had grilled the salmon and had put with it a pile of steamed vegetables she had tossed with a little oil and herbs, a small cup of white tea placed beside each plate.
A soft hum parted her lips as she fixed the vase of wildflowers she had set at the table's centre, keeping an ear out for a knock upon the door.
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the wolves will chase you by the pale moonlight
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