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There's nobody here to make weapons.
[Blunt, void of feeling, and crisp. She doesn't even drum her fingers on the counter beside the open book.]
Winry's gone too.
[One more dart.]
If you want to work here, there's room.
[As long as you leave her alone and don't ask about interviews.]
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[Those interested in purchasing her wares, picking up things they asked for, or unpleasant conversation with Raven the eternally grumpy, can find her in the smithy in the morning through midafternoon, and then in the cafe, trying and failing to sort out what she's supposed to do with an art club it pains her to attend.]
[Blunt, void of feeling, and crisp. She doesn't even drum her fingers on the counter beside the open book.]
Winry's gone too.
[One more dart.]
If you want to work here, there's room.
[As long as you leave her alone and don't ask about interviews.]
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[Those interested in purchasing her wares, picking up things they asked for, or unpleasant conversation with Raven the eternally grumpy, can find her in the smithy in the morning through midafternoon, and then in the cafe, trying and failing to sort out what she's supposed to do with an art club it pains her to attend.]
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[Other than that, she has little else to do now.]
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[With some things for them to look at, since she's had a bit of warning.]
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Action?
Action!
[Thankfully they don't keep her waiting long. Incoming pirate, right around the corner. It's been a while since he's been in here. He's glancing around to see if there's been any changes in the meantime.]
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As it is, he follows quietly behind his partner, curious to see what he's arranged.]
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Not really. Did you bring rings with you?
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It's a very plain, worn thin band. But it fits him well. He produces it from his pocket.]
We did.
[Itachi is always wearing his Akatsuki ring, so there's no need to ask on that front.]
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It's held out without a word.]
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Taking notes on a piece of paper, she sizes each ring and hands them back with another nod.]
What do you want them to look like?
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[In essence, he's describing this.]
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Etched with what?
[With that kind of request, she's pretty sure the rings won't do too much magically; the metal here, pretty or not, is largely just metal and doesn't help people with defense against spells or anything. Other worlds, though, have symbols or letters that work that way - and could be cut into a ring.]
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He'd had it run by him first, of course, and he'd basically told the pirate to adjust their design however he pleased and he'd be happy. This doesn't make the process any less interesting.]
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Well sometimes metal get these patterns that occur in it as they're worked. There's a type of steel that gets a wood grain pattern occurring throughout it when it's forged. [A person from an Earth would call it Damascus steel. But given the description, Raven could also think of mokume-gane.] And sometimes iron gets this mottled finish with bands that hatch across each other. [He's picturing iron with a high nickel content, typically sourced from meteors, that produces this pattern when lightly etched with acid. A Widmanstätten pattern.] So I'm thinking an etching that mimics something like that.
[He can't describe what he's picturing further because he simply doesn't know the smiths do these things or what they're called. He's just knows it fetches a decent Beri on the market.]
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You can take your rings back.
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He's going to move on to the matter of payment instead.]
Do you accept barter for payment or...?
[Something else? Free? Free is the norm in the village (and Law being the pirate he is, will take full shameless advantage of it when he can) but it never hurt to take initiative and ask. Better than assuming, anyway.]
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Payment. That's not something discussed often in Luceti. Still, he supposed they could always find things to offer her - as little as there is to barter with in the village in general.]
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