[Kyonos Weatherstone]

Once again Kyonos rose to a new day and carried out his routine. He found the morning practice in Elementalism to be getting even more easier and more enjoyable. The fire was ready when Gimli arrived. His Mentor set a horse shoe on the anvil and said, “I want you to make a lot of these. Excepting for lunch time, I want you to stay on this all day. We are starting to run low on horse shoes. For most items we can tell a customer to wait but when a horse shoe is needed, it is needed right then. Get to work now.” Gimli left for the back room and Kyonos was on his own.

He started carefully with the first shoe. First the metal which was shaped like a narrow bar, was heated, hammered and bent into sort of “U” shape with curved sides. Next he reheated it and pounded it flat. All that remained was to punch holes for the nails. After the first one was done, the others were completed faster. Every now and then the hot metal sizzled when a bead of sweat would drip from his forehead to the horse shoe. By the time noon came around, the Dwarf was quite proficient. Kyonos continued till the end of the day, at which time Gimli looked at the pile horse shoes and picked up two. After looking them over he said, “Now we have enough to last us for a while”.

Kyonos then called it a day.