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"You could ask for more time?" His brother smiled at him in the soft way he always did when he was mentioning something difficult, "And… more help?"
March's eyes lifted.
Olric took a drink of his coffee, buttered foam leaving a faint mark against his upper lip. "From the Capital, I mean. Or talk to Balor or Ryis? Maybe somebody knows of another shipment coming through."
"I know where the iron comes from."
"Yeah but–"
"I can do this." March snapped his words and then his attention back to the ledger. "We don’t need to go begging the Capital for anything."
Olric stood there for a moment, drinking his coffee while he sorted another handful of scraps into another absurd arrangement. The silence stretched until Olric wandered around the side of the workbench and started looking to the crate beside him.
"I could go back in the upper parts of the mine and get more peat?" Olric suggested, "Errol's doing somethin' in the museum I don't think he'd notice if I popped a few boards off the entrance and squeezed in."
"You're not doing that," March reached for the box of fuel before Olric could get to it. "'nd stop going through everything, you'll get my piles mixed up."Series
- Part 2 of A Blacksmith's Guide to Falling in Love