you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own

[serjeant]

Who: Seoraj and YOU.
What: The smithy is open for business, which means taking orders and working up basics for sale.
Where: Seoraj's Forge in Stoneshell.
When: Weekdays, business hours. Specify if it matters.
Notes: This is generally here for anyone to whom blacksmiths are relevant!
Warnings: Archaic sexism.

Business may not be booming, but nevertheless it is well underway within a short time of Seoraj's acquisition. Most of his work to start with comes in through the farming communities, and the occupation is familiar in a way that lays out most starkly how familiar so much of this place is not. Steel works under his hands as it ever has, and the world outside the smithy marches on in its own, new way. Immersing himself in that is his way, though he's never had an opportunity like this before; he insinuates himself into life here as if it were an old cloak and not so crisply new as it is.

People begin to talk to him. That will be good, he thinks, though he doesn't yet know what for.

Comments

[aldabeyoun.livejournal.com]

"I'd like to take it in trade, if possible. Some of what I do needs nails or small metal figures." If he's not interested in paying, she'd probably still offer some work, just to get her name out.

[serjeant]

"I can do that for you." He's got no objection to paying her, and if her work doesn't pan out, what she's asking for is little to lose.

[aldabeyoun.livejournal.com]

"Nice. Now, I really don't know much about how a forge runs, so what're your usual problems? What are the rare and terrible problems?" Along with the usual business concerns - nonpayment, no customers - Njoki thinks there must be some specific things like fire.