Recruiting Clem/Starting Spear

[20:48:12] He returned home for now- Tired from the journey, and looking for his Mother; having something to ask her, the offer of Kali not forgotten. Thinking he'd be able to relax when he got there though was wrong though- running into Clementine he was instantly reminded of what he still had to get done.

"Clemenmine.!" He calls to her, rushing her right away, the seeking to grab her attention before anyone else came along to steal her away. "I need you." Grasping for a wrist as he said this probably didn't paint the best image, the child speaking directly out of pocket when he said this -- peering into her eyes, he had yet to tell her of his smithing request. Not taking this time to do so, he just pulls on her in a hurry.

"Come on, I've put this off long enough- I need to hurry and wrap things up with you."
(Hendrix Este)
[21:01:00] Having returned from the swamps, a new dress upon her slimmed body, the young girl walks down the streets in a tired fashion. The whole walk had tuckered her out, as well as the stop into Dananrium to check on her Brother figure, Gabe, who WOULD have baby Gabes for her to fawn over.

They would be so cute.

But, even as she walked into Nostvale, thinking she'd have a nice nap on the grassy floor, she was reminded that no reast was to ever be had for her. Some kind of trouble was around the corner! But this time? This time, it was in the form of a cute boy who needed her help.

Sigh.

Wrist gripped, she would follow in a surprised manner.

"W-What? Where we goin' Hendrix? What do you need help with...?!"
(Clementine Statera)
[21:05:16] Stopping abruptly as they near the manor, the boy to eager to complete the gruelling work of forming the spear itself. He turns to Clem, still holding onto her, but this time allowing her some time to process what he was attempting to do- "I need you to move some wood." Not that his explanation would ease the processing that she'd have to go through!

Walking again now, he decides it best to discuss this along the way there, every minute a precious one. "It's magic wood, and I can't get it do what I want, but a nature magi- that's you- can. Which is why I need you." The Ebony wood had proved a formidable adversary for the beginner blacksmith, calling on the aid of those more gifted to specific fields as he himself were to handle the grunt work, so to speak.

"So will you help me?"
(Hendrix Este)


[21:16:22] As they walked, the young girl found herself explained and to have a job pushed onto her. To form...Wood? MAybe...MAybe he didn't know how it worked? Could she even DEAL with dead plant material? That sounded like something a necromancer...NAture mage should deal with.

Right?

"I...Errr...I can give it a go?"

Squinting a bit, she glances off to the side, then back at the boy.

" I'm not sure if it will work, but heck, I'll give it a go! Where is this magic wood of yours?"

This conversation was wrong on so many levels, BUT, these children had no such ideals yes. Such intentions were far from their minds.
(Clementine Statera)
[21:53:04] With her agreement he takes her deep into the manor. Down into the cellar, which turns out to be another extension of it's interior down there. The Este having set the old acolyte's base up as a territory for his smithing, in the middle rests an anvil.

"Atticus will bring us the wood, for now I want you to get comfortable." Turning to her, the boy hoping none of this had come off as strange so far. "You're the first person I've brought down here. Mom would get mad, but I trust you." He says, adding a smile at the end.

"I haven't been honest with you so far- only telling you I need your help, it's not all that fair. Sorry for that." Not that they were here, he had time to talk, as Atticus walked in with the giant hunk of Ebony wood, the waste of it having been cut down, what remains is a six foot log's worth of the stuff for him to chip into.

"I'm making a spear for a girl named Nefertari. It's my first real blacksmithing commission, and I need your help finalizing it." He tells her who the weapon is for, and what it is now, against also restating why he needed her here today.

"The wood is magical, and regular stuff won't work for it. All of my hammers bounced off, and I need to use magical fire to actually weaken it so I can mold it after you shape it- Are you following so far?"
(Hendrix Este)


[22:25:29] Where were they going…?

Into a house they went, the girl whisked away by the boy. But, this was no normal house…As they walked past people ,past the inner walls and to flights upon flights of stairs, ladders, or how ever the fuck the got into the basement, the young girl found herself in a large house WITHIN a house. How was that even…Possible…? Blinking a few times, she would be pulled once more to the center of the building, to an anvil that sat in the middle of the building. What…Did he want her to do?

" You want me to…What?"

Squinting a bit, the nature mage sets her hands on her hips. Perhaps the boy seriously overestimated her control over the magic that could twist any tree, plant, or…Person on occasion, into whatever she liked. But, as all children her age, she found it difficult to do so. Well, next to impossible really, but she'd be a jerk if she didn't at least try! Nodding her head slowly, the fawn seems to grasp at the words and understand their meaning.

"Okay! What Commission, Finalizing, and comfortable mean? Then I'll be following!"

Smiling brightly, the girl appears quite…Dimwitted, but means well! But in reality, her native tongue does not translate all that well into Valsmasian, and some words just…They did not exist! So, by risking her ego and making her appear the idiot, she could learn things! Wasn't she so smart? Not only that, who was this Nefertari? So many questions to ask!

" Also…I…I've never seen that kind of wood, I don't know if I can even MAKE dead wood do what I want…But, uhm…I'll give it a try! No promises it'll work…"

(Clementine Statera)
[22:38:17] "Just try your best."

He doesn't ask nothing more of the Fawnling, her agreeing to help already enough for him. Having Atticus set the wood down on top of the anvil, the boy takes a step towards it as the servant backs away. The original plan involved Saeran- the Harukean's talents in the field of flame needed to provide the magical heat sufficient enough to weaken the binds of the Ebony Wood.

Letting a hand rest on it's rigid surface, the boy attempts to recall that burning feeling in his chest while he had it out with Ariadne- those things he assumed visions, where he himself had conjured fire the same as his sister. Relying on such aid, he seeks to do so now -- the latent energies in the wood cauing a reactionary effect allowing for him to meet with success in such a dilemna.

FWOOSH goes his hand, at first startling him- pulling back in a hurry he attempts to fan the fires that be. "Ah ah ah! Haaa. Haaa." As he blows on his hand in a silly way right infron ot of Clementine, he pauses to look to her, realizing how stupid he must look then, and there.

"Ah... Sorry about that! Just warming up.. Heh-heh.." Literally- the fire wasn't controlled very well, and his hand, the whole thing being enclosed by it was not the best choice of action; a trained fire magi would probably be able to handle a bit of the blaze but he himself?

The newbie is forced ot rely upon the blessings of the earth- that hand consumed by flames also masked in the stone, and cobbles of the ground to prevent any scarring of tissue. "Right! I'm ready on my end, Clemenmine. Are you ready to give it a shot yourself?" He says, showing her that hand currently on fire one more time- his smile painting quite the peculiar picture when looking at this.
(Hendrix Este)
[22:52:48] "Right…"

Holding up her own hands, a gleam of light shimmered over her chocolate colored eyes. This light would shimmer and shine, rolling down her arms and to her hands, her fingers. An attempt to control and manage the magic that was so very potent in her body. Reaching up, she pushed a blonde curl behind her ear and turns to the boy after the wood is placed down.

She was SO not ready, but she had to try for Hendrix.

As he played with fire, losing control for a moment, the girl could not help but laugh at his antics. What a silyl guy! Accidently setting himself on fire while they worked on a project! This did not do well to boost her confidence, but the sun be damned if she were not a girl of her words! Stepping back for a moment, she lets the boy go about his duties, go about weakening the wood and giving cause for her to be impressed!

At his age, he used magic? Clementine had just recently learn she could do any kind of magic, but this boy? He knew how to control it! Well…To a point, but hey! Even that was amazing to her! Watching with interest, the young nature magi pushed her hands forwards, letting it gently touch the wood while she tries to make something of a connection to the dead wood.

"Let's see…"

(Clementine Statera)
[23:05:36] Her job mattered the most right now- Hendrix creeping along slowly as he messed with the temperature he emitted from his flaming hand little by little. The state of the Ebong Wood was delicate, ro so Nefertari said -- whilse it easily handled the most normal of extreme temperatures- it could be burned to a crisp with slightest of ease if one went too far over it's threshold once passing that boiling point.

"Section by section, Clemenmine.." A bead of sweat rolls down the side of his cheek as she speaks, giving her a smile to reassure her, yet all the same nervous beyond compare considering that he was playing with fire here...

"Follow along where I run the flame over it- shaping the head of the spear will be the first thing." The idea he had for it was forming slowly, giving no details for Clementine, he awaited how she would approach. In his free hand there rests a hammer- magically reinforced now with a coating of the flames; spread across it's surface smoothly in preparation for the heavy-lifting later to ensue.
(Hendrix Este)