Swimming to the shore, he pulled himself partway out of the water onto the gravel-strewn strand near to the young man who was working so diligently by torchlight. As the array of metalwork was proffered he examined it with a professional eye, for he had spent his life training as a smith before he'd become a King. "Unique," he deemed the design, seeing where it was beginning to come together. "It will be beautiful." His gaze was warm as he looked back to the Guildmaster, even if Edmund couldn't feel the support he felt in the Attuned Bond. The lantern was yet unfinished, but he could see the raw potential in what it could become from the foundations that had already been laid.
His own supplies drew interest in return and he inclined his head in confirmation. "Yes." He pulled the net bag closer and set out what he had brought: the blue glass buoy, a small set of enamel paint pots, some fishing wire and a spill of stars and moons carved from sea glass. "Safrin is fighting alone right now. Far from her home. Soon it will be LongNight, when the gods are at their weakest." He paused, drawing a slow, heavy breath and releasing it with equal care before he reached for the silver pot and a brush, curving his tail beneath him in the shallow surf as he began to paint simple dots upon the glass. "I am making a lantern for her. A star for her here, when all other stars are gone."
His own supplies drew interest in return and he inclined his head in confirmation. "Yes." He pulled the net bag closer and set out what he had brought: the blue glass buoy, a small set of enamel paint pots, some fishing wire and a spill of stars and moons carved from sea glass. "Safrin is fighting alone right now. Far from her home. Soon it will be LongNight, when the gods are at their weakest." He paused, drawing a slow, heavy breath and releasing it with equal care before he reached for the silver pot and a brush, curving his tail beneath him in the shallow surf as he began to paint simple dots upon the glass. "I am making a lantern for her. A star for her here, when all other stars are gone."
