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Who:  Colderic (cul-derik) Slaid
Where:  La'marri blacksmith
Note: Blacksmith shop is split, forge is outside in a fence, the rest is in the connected building.[/center:2xg251t0]

Colderic shrugged the coat off of his shoulders.  With a simple twist, he caught it by the collar and turned it inside out.  Casually tossing it on a small table in the corner, he stretched his shoulders out in small circles.  The well defined muscles on his arms and shoulders were exposed, only the strong chest muscles and his rippled stomach was hidden by his small undershirt.  His hair tied behind his back flowed almost to his elbows.  What wasn't tied back was generally too short to worry with.  He slid his undershirt over his head and off of his arms.  Tossing it over his shoulder, he reached back and tightened the tie around his hair, making sure no stray hair was hanging.  

He looked up and around as he straightened his shirt back, and prepared to put it back on.  Across the road from the smithy where he worked, a small outdoor food shop had opened:  A temporary shop set up primarily for the workers building the new tavern.  He threw a small nod that way, as he saw a few women staring at him.   He recognized one of them, the others seemed to be new, or at least new to him.  Sliding his undershirt back on, this time over his long hair so it doesn't get into the fire, he made sure to show off the features it would hide.  He couldn't help but notice that the girls noticed.  He grinned and picked his smithing hammer up.  

He looked around for anything good that needed work.  A sword would be perfect, women love to watch him work a sword.   No sword to be found... not even a simple dagger or knife.   The hard simple fact of being a smith is that most of your work is on pots, pans, kitchen knives, anything that needs to be shaped.  He picked up the biggest thing up for work:  A flat pan.

How embarrassing.  Its hard to look manly while holding cookware.  He threw the pan onto the forge, and turned to stroke the fire.  He looked up, and wasn't surprised to see the women had left.  Just when he let out a sigh of disappointment, he heard a voice from behind him.  Surprised, he dropped his poker into the fire.  Quickly he reached into the fire, grabbing the edge.  A shot of pain hit his finger where it touched a hot coal.  He threw the poker down in the cooling water and turned around.

He squeezed his finger with a tight grip, any chance of "playing it cool" already gone.   "huh?"

Anonymous

Not the most alert fellow in the world, Delmont thought, who had been leaning on the fence behind the smith, watching him. Delmont Crave was a singularly unremarkable man, with dusty brown hair and blue eyes. No one ever really took notice of him, eyes sliding right over him as assumptions were made--drifter, mildly mannered, dully, boring, and uninteresting. He had no scars, no visible weapons, and looked the sort who, at any moment, would pull out a book and begin to read. Which, in fact, he might, if he had brought anything with him. All he had were clothes, though, with him, and a bun from the place across the way. It wasn't his favorite food, he preferred meat, raw meat, but he was hungry and had not the money for anything else.

Besides, he wasn't there for food.

When all the ladies there left because he was working on a pan(which was silly, because real women would appreciate a man that could make useful things for them), Delmont had spoken in his quiet, grave manner, "I smell wolf." Because he did. And it wasn't coming from him--Delmont was a werewolf of sorts--but rather from the man in front of him. He had not met with another wolf in far too long, and to find another one alone such as he was, he was very happy, though he did not show it(but for a small quirk of his lips that was nearly invisible). This man did not seem like the Alpha that Delmont longed for--because he, truly, was a Beta--but any other wolf would be welcome.

He felt bad, a little, when the man burnt himself, but it was his own fault for not smelling or hearing Delmont. At the mans confusion, the little quirk in his lips grew a little. Delmont never truly smiled, because his face was on one that would look good with a grin. And either way, his teeth were just that bit different, just a little more feral. A grin to a wolf is not a sign of happiness. He repeated himself, a little louder, "I smell wolf." He said it a bit slower, perhaps a little accusing. He knew what he smelled.

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Colderic eyed the stranger who had managed to sneak up behind him, although it wasn't surprising: he had always been easy to sneak up on.  His eyes couldn't separate colors, and everything came out a shade of black, white or gray.  His ears worked fine, but he had never paid much attention to small noises around him.   His nose, usual very keen in his kind, was also weak, barely any better than a humans.  As a wolf, all these problems made him a poor hunter, but as a human, he barely ever attracted any unwanted attention.

The man was both peculiar and unextraordinary looking at the same time.  Nothing about his was attention grabbing, but at closer look, something screamed at him.  Even with his eyesight, Colederic saw the eyes of a hunter.  He recognized the wolf through his wild eyes before he found the scent in his nose.  "So do I..." he responded accusingly, turning around back to his forge.  His eyes darted up as he thought quickly.

He pulled the poker out of the water and thrust it into the fire.  Smoke bellowed as the water dissipated in the flames.  A bright side to his color blindness, was that flames were easier to read.  When flames had a large white center, it was hot enough.   He found the large white area and thrust the pan inside, shaking one side of it deep into the coal and flames.  "What do ya' want with me?"  he put the bright pan upon the forge and starting tapping its shape out.  

Shoving the pan back into the fire to reheat it, he looked through the shop door and saw the shadow of his boss floating around on the shop floor.  

"Measure" he screamed.  and he kept working the pan in the fire as the smithy peeked his head out to see what he was working on.  

"23.  4 Deep" the old smithy responded.  Colderic nodded and went back to tapping the pot on the forge.

Colderic looked to see if the stranger was still there.  His voice lowered as he looked over to the stranger.  "I like this job, so be careful what you say 'round here."