“Welcome back, Kvalinn. How was school today?” Father was working behind his forge as he had for over a hundred years, and intended to do for a hundred more.
Although the forge area had recently undergone one major change lately. After much convincing, I had gotten father to allow me to install a steam powered trip hammer and a third station into the forge room. It made our jobs easier, but it had been an uphill battle to get father’s approval to use valuable steel on it.
“It went well, Father.” I put on my smock and filled the steam engine with water. It was heated by a pipe coming from the forge fire chimney so I didn’t need to worry about fuel. “I received an invitation from Bekhi to visit her hometown over the winter break, and I was hoping for your permission to accompany her.”
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