"Like your ring?" Harry asked pointing at Nicks right hand where Sanar sat upon his pointer finger glinting slightly in the fires light. Nick shook his head "I was thinking of making them shaped like smith hamrs with the handles forming the band." He said honestly. Harry looked enlightened "Because they work with tal!" he said excitedly as he understood Nicks thought process. "yeah , figured they'd get a kick out of it too. I'll admit that it also helps that it's a simple enough design as well." Nick said with a chuckle before grabbing the tal out of the fire since it was ward up again.-
Once again he carefully struck the tal until it gained so more length while losing so thickness. Nick raised the tal once he got near the thickness he wanted to spot check it for evenness which he then hamred out if he found spots too thick. Once the tal was uniform in thickness he set it aside and grabbed an ingot of iron and tossed it into the fire. "Why did you put that other piece of tal in the fire?" Harry asked confused. Nick wiped away his own sweat and leaned against the wall of the shed since iron takes longer to heat up.-
"I need that iron to make a temporary chisel to segnt the copper without damaging the proportions. Most smiths tend to do similar things if they find that they lack a specific tool." He explained honestly. "So if you need a tool you just make it rather than going to get it?" Harry asked having trouble grasping the idea. "If I have the skill and the material why wouldn't I just make the tool instead of having soone else make them?" Nick asked rhetorically. Harry seed to finally get it and nodded in agreent "that does make sense." he admits.-
"We are going to be here a for a quite a while , iron takes a bit to heat up to a workable temp." Nick said casually. Harry sagged in disappointnt "Is every crafting session this boring?" he asked in exasperation. Nick laughed 'Man he is going to HATE potions if he's this impatient' Nick paused mid thought 'well more so than just because Snape is going to be breathing down his neck.' he corrected. "Tell you what mate , you go entertain yourself sohow and just leave the crafting to and I'll show you the finish product later alright?" Nick suggested in hopes of giving his friend out without Harry needing to sound rude.-
"Probably for the best , I don't think it's for Nick." Harry admitted with a sigh. Nick just smiled reassuringly "It's not for a lot of people don't worry about it , it's no skin off my back." he said with a shrug. Nick rembered first reading the Harry potter series back in his old life and laughing at how the trio's impulsivity got them into trouble. 'Never thought I'd see it for my self.' he thought with a bit of lancholy.-
Nick didn't lie to anyone about his mories during his ti in this world as beyond the na this body held there was nothing left over of it's previous owner. That said the mories of his old life still remained but were starting to quickly fade as more ti went on. He had a theory that this world was actively trying to expunge mories of a different world since it defied the laws of this one. This also explained by his knowledge of the books weren't affected as by this worlds laws it might be considered a type of divination into a possible future.-
'Kinda sucks that I can't keep any important details of my past life since they could co in handy , but it is what it is.' Nick thought with a sigh. He looked over at Harry confused "why are you still here?" he asked making Harry realize that he actually had no clue and walk out of the shed with an embarrassed look. Nick just chuckled at his awkwardness and went back to patiently waiting for the iron to heat up. It took ten minutes , mostly because a fire in a fireplace can only be kept so hot by feeding it.-
Picking the tal up with a pair of cold tongs Nick placed the block of iron on the makeshift anvil and imdiately raised his hamr before bringing it down on one of the blocks corners. Repeating this over and over again Nick slowly changed that side of the block into a wedge shape the he then carefully beveled into a dull blade like shape making an ugly but functional chisel. He then ignored it and tossed the copper back into the fire to bring it up to temp again.
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