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  • Parts 12
  • Time 1h 5m
Complete, First published Feb 10, 2014
Minutes before the Crafting Ceremony, Clover did her final act. With agile but graceful arm movements, she bent water into her will. A delicate, beautiful art piece laid in front of her. It would take time before she can do that again, so she thought. In the ceremony, she will be receiving a medallion with doubled-headed arrows instead of a spiral swirl. To become a blacksmith not an artisan, that was the deal.

       Hot, smoky and dirty, this was the smithy. Inevitably, Clover was pulled into her new world, holding on a friend's wise words to get by. If she thinks being a smith apprentice had completely altered the course of her life. She would have to reconsider that after a pack of Obsidia, and their unknown masters raid their town.


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