[Shorty]

Titus looked up from his doodlings and smiled. Furloin stuck his tounge and stomped off, to help a customer who just had recently walked into the store.

"No, no, no! I know just the piece for you!" He instantly brightened up before a customer, the surly brownie now turned quite jovial.

Titus smiled and looked up at Viskyia.

"Always keep in mind the cost going into an object, remember that you always need to be adequately compensated for your time. A rule of thumb- charge double your cost. So, if we're making a hundred-crown piece we need to keep the cost of material to about 50 crowns. Now actually this isn't all that cheap, but people are willing to invest siginificant amounts of their money into jewelry. Why? Because it lasts. Because it's an heirloom. Because it's something to pass down..." The jewler became animated. "People track relatives through a necklace or a bracelet. You say 'this is great-grandma's' and you at least remember her. Without that piece of jewelry you hardly remember her name, but a piece of jewelry is a piece of immortality- you'll see..." Titus grinned. He nodded towards his workshop. "Let's go see the office..." He joked.

"I have spare hammers, drills, files, clamps... you are welcome to anything in my workshop." He led her back behind the counter and into the back workshop, which was visible through the large bay window. It was small and contained a couple tables, a single chair, a small forge, raw material, half-finished pieces gathered in a box. He pointed to the forge.

"How experienced are you at Metalsmithing?" He asked.