Benjamin Blacksmith Shop Novels & Stories

"Think with your head for once and not your—" "Drift," Sable said. Drift stopped. Sable looked at him steadily. "Go get the horses." Drift went. Caya watched him leave with the expression of a woman filing something away for later. Orren the blacksmith was at the south end of the settlement in a structure that announced itself half a mile away by smell alone — hot metal, coal smoke, the particular thick air of a place where fire was kept burning all day and most of the night. He was a small man, which surprised Sable every time even after three years of knowing him. Small and compact and completely unbothered by the heat rolling off the forge in waves that made the air warp. He looked up whe

"You see a blacksmith, right? Because that is what I am and you are inside my shop right now. This is an arsenal where I used to sell swords, arrows, spears, basically all kinds of weapon." "And your point is?" Niccoli butted in. He could not understand why the other party was starting to state the obvious out of the blue and when Hefetus heard him, he let out an exasperated sigh before he gave his response. "The point is, don't you think you have come to the wrong place?" "But we were told you sell information here too." Allan interjected with the same confused expression as the one his friends were sporting at that moment. From the way the blacksmith was reacting, it was as though he has n

Hrodgar’s smile was beatific. Kemp and Kenward walked through the city and towards the industrial side of town where the loud metal smiths and smelly tanners worked. They found one of the larger blacksmiths that had been recommended to them and owned by a man called Farsh. He was not the Master Smith but well respected. Farsh wore a thick leather apron covered in burn spots. A tunic of the same thick leather covered his torso and left his huge arms bare. His arms were enormous, as with most men in that trade, and the arms were also covered in thick, matted hair, much like those of some type of large apes seen in travelling side shows.