walking in the store she thought the store will bombard her with a lot of scents at once, but to her shock it seemed like only one smell was taking over the area which is the smell of the wood used for all of the decorations, tables, shelfs, covers, chairs and more. It was a very calming smell that made them feel at ease like they were walking in a tree park. While they were looking around the shop there was a decent amount of customers where the 2 employees of the store tended to them until one of them came by to the girls saying in a low pitch and calm voice "may I interest you in trying this Pistachio and Orris perfume" while handing them a think testing paper they sprayed the perfume on. Old Anny took the paper and looked satisfied. After that she handed it to the young girl and asked the employee"What perfume would you recommend for my girl Sera here?" The girl looked confused and shook her hands and said "I would rather get something for my uncle as a gift, but anyhow I don't have the money for it".
Anny said "Don't worry about it, how about one for you and one for your uncle? it's on this nice aunt's check" the employee went to the male perfume section and brought one with a very impressive bottle design that looked like a mallet hammer, the liquid inside was light violet. the employee gave them a sample of the perfume and they really liked the smell. Anny said "Yeah lets get that for your uncle" at this time the sound of a backdoor was heard and a woman's voice saying "Ma you are here! what haven't you said anything"
Anny looked at her, smiled and said "Surprise Ma is here, now you know?" then they hugged each other, The employee looked worried and said "Sorry I didn't know you were the manager mother or I would have told her" The manager said "No worries leave this customer to me" the employee walked away leaving the perfume with the young lady, Anny told her daughter "Anna this is Sera a new friend I met at the bus station, she is cute and inquisitive girl that seems to be interested in different types of works" then she looked at Sera and said "Sera this is Anna my pride and joy, and the friend I worked that hardest to get" the mother and daughter compo started to laugh, she didn't know how to react to such a situation and just smiled and greeted Anna. Anna greeted her back and started to talk to her and answered her questions regarding her work and how she ended up being the owner of this establishment she mainly studied at the hand of an old lady's lab in the city of flowers for few years where they worked on making the perfumes of the strangest kind of items like a 200 year old sword scent. Then Anny stopped them saying "Now now don't overwhelm Sera with all of that I want to get her a perfume as a present what would you recommend" the girl looked disappointed that she stopped their conversation. Anna said "Sure ma let's figure out what would be best for her, how about a Lily perfume?" Then she picked a small bottle with a purple wrapping that hides the color of what is inside, she took a sample paper and gave the paper to them. it was a pleasant scent and both of them liked it, Anny told her daughter to pack both perfumes as gifts and give it to Sera, the girl is hesitant to accept the gift, but Anny seems like she won't take no for an answer, so she accepted "Thank you aunt, I will make sure to use it well and hopefully uncle will be happy receiving it too".
"I am soaking in sweat" said Anny while being in Rains blacksmith workshop where she took the girl after she asked about stores that have their workplace close to the store. "Fin, why am I in the workshop too?" she asked an average height bulked man who answered "Well you asked about the workshop and here we are! at the furnace" the place feels like being sunburnt 100 times over on the same spot, Anny bid the girl goodbye and says to Fin "Take care of Sera and show her around on my behalf, I can't handle the heat" and she walked away with her mom while both waving at the girl and she waves back at them.
Fin says "Well Sera welcome to our workshop, here we mainly focus on weapons, we have other branches that do other types of works, you can observe the current on going work, ask questions or anything in between I am here to show you around"
they started walking around the place and started hearing a sound of a hammer hitting a steel, Fin started going toward the sound and said "This could be good" the girl followed him until they came close to a man hitting the steel to shape it into a fine weapon. then Fin said "after this he will start beveling the edges of the blade, we can go over there and" the girl cut him off and asked "Why is that man grinding an already finished sword?" Fin says "Oh that!, he is doing a work similar to a heat treatment, but with a grinder instead its the power of new tools and equipment, but you need to be very careful the smallest mistake could end ones career haha Oh I remember how..." and Fin started talking about the times he almost lost his hands,legs and sometimes head due to a weapon test going wrong in his early days
As a blacksmith. the girl zoned out a bit and started watching the man who was hammering the steel, now rubbing it with sandpaper and she asked Fin "What is he doing now?"
Fin answered "He is smoothing the edges of the blade" she then asked "Isn't there a machine to do it like the heat treatment?" Fin sighed and said "There is, but Marc likes to do it by hand and says it makes the weapon more personal to him, which is fine by me since the product is liked by the customers. I'm fine with it". After the tour finished she felt intrigued but the actual work seems much harder, harsher and more dangerous than she could have imagined, she thanked Fin for his time and disrupting their work Fin shrugged and said "No worry kid if you ever want to try it out or just make something for yourself come by anytime we have a weekly make yourself a weapon course last week was a katana session this week will be a viking sword" she waved her hand at him and started to walk away.
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