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The Circle Expands
Chapter 4
In the yard at the rear of Circle Four located some distance from the stables due to the fire hazard was a glass workshop where Keth and Tris worked on the products for the store, Sitting back-to-back with the it was a small forge that could share the heat source for Daja's work on her living medal creations and the custom jewelry she created, larger work was done at the forge at the Duke's Citadel.
After stabling the horses the four assistants went to the glass workshop where Keth was removing yesterdays work from the annealing oven.
"Are they cool enough for us to handle?"
"Yes, grab those baskets and take all this all in to the store."
Keth helped load the baskets and as they started toward the back door to Circle Four he picked up a basket that had twelve glass spheres that appeared to be filled with fog.
Entering Circle Four through the door in the back of Tris's bookstore just as Tris entered the front door to her shop. "Tris, the rememballs are looking good. Now we need an untalented to test them on."
"The Duke is coming in today, we'll let him test one."
"Good, I'll take them over to the shop."
Following Arthur out the door Keth walked through the patio to the shop he shared with Daja and Evvy, as he walked inside he found Daja watching Evvy who was working on a stone sculpture of a dragon. Evvy had mounted a metal mirror, Daja had made, as a pond that the dragon was looking into.
Evvy had taken stone of assorted colors and using her stone magic had softened the stone so she could shape it in to the turquoise curves of a dragon about three foot long the color faded to yellow on the belly and on the trailing edges of the half raised wings, long white claws gripped the rocky stone base and the long neck was twisted around so the head was looking down into the mirror with the tigers eye stones used as eyes. A long red, forked tongue snaked out between sharp white teeth and the white bearded chin almost touched the mirror. The dragon was so detailed that individual scales could be seen.
"Evvy, that is beautiful work." Keth told her.
Evvy grinned at him, "Thank you, Keth, I like your work too."
Tris stuck her head into the shop, "Evvy, where's Galki?"
"She went early to Yazmin's for her dance lesson."
"Daja, I think you have a visitor coming."
Daja walked to the door and saw walking easily toward her was Polyam of Tenth Caravan Idaram.
The two women came together and hugged each other tightly.
"Daja, saati." Said Polyam.
"Polyam, saati, I am very happy to see you once again. So tenth caravan Idaram is back in Summersea."
"Yes, and we have some very interesting items for sale and trade."
"Come and have some tea with us." Daja lead Polyam into the shop.
"Tris, Sandry, look who's here."
"Hello Polyam"
"Good day Tris, Sandry, how has the world been treating you?""
"Not often enough." Said Tris.
"I know hear what you are saying."
"How about Tenth Caravan, did you have a good season?" Sandry asked.
"Not bad, we came through Gold Ridge valley and it's doing well, we picked up some Saffron spice at a good price, I think we got a better price than usual because of our connection to you four."
Walking into the shop Polyam stopped in front of the blue dragon and commented, "This is a beautiful piece of work."
Evvy, was trying not to stare at Polyam's seriously scarred face and missing eye. Polyam looked back with her heavy lidded dark eye under dark eyebrows. The scarring on the face made her mouth seem to sneer.
"What?" asked Polyam.
"What happened to you:"
:EVVY!" Tris said.
"That's all right Tris," to Evvy Polyam said "My horse fell and I slid down a shale covered mountainside."
Evvy winced, as a stone mage she know how sharp broken shale could be.
The silence grew, "Who made the dragon?"
Evvy looked up at Polyam, "I did."
"It's beautiful, I'll tell my Gilav about it." Looking around the shop at the shelves filled with glass, stone and metal items she said "There are many beautiful things in this shop the Giliav will want to see."
Moving over to a table Polyam examined one of the items on it. It was single stone column about two foot high, mounted on a snow white marble base three types of marble with bands and patches of yellow, pink and green winding together in a coiled, twisting column topped by a clear quartz sphere three inches in diameter. Beside is was a four sided pyramid of translucent quartz.
"What is this?"
"A lamp." Replied Evvy.
"Lamp?"
Evvy walked over to the table and placed her hand on the quartz sphere and concentrated. The Sphere burst into a bright white light. Evvy picked up the pyramid, as she lifted it Polyam could see that it was hollow with a cup at the top of the pyramid. Placing it on top of the lighted sphere the translucent pyramid defused the light to a softer illumination. Evvy rotated the shade and Polyam saw that each side of the shade was different so you could get four different intensities of light from the same lamp, five if you counted the unshielded sphere.
"Remarkable." Polyam commented, "How long will it stay lit?"
"We don't know for certain, there are some at the Citadel that have been lit for five years without any diminishing of the light intensity." Said Sandry.
Ployam turned to Daja, "I have some tea in my saddle bags and something to show Tris."
"I'll help you get them." As they walked to the door Daja asked, "Sandry, Tris if your could start some hot water and get some pastry's from the bake stall we will have a mid-morning snack."
"I'll put the water on in my bookstore."
"I'll get the pastry's. Do you want some Evvy?" asked Sandry.
"I get some later, I have some fine details to finish on the dragon."
A/N gilav - caravan leader, about the same rank as mayor p.s. can you guess where I got the names of Arthur, Conan, and Doyle for the names of some UPS workers?
The Circle Expands
Chapter 4
In the yard at the rear of Circle Four located some distance from the stables due to the fire hazard was a glass workshop where Keth and Tris worked on the products for the store, Sitting back-to-back with the it was a small forge that could share the heat source for Daja's work on her living medal creations and the custom jewelry she created, larger work was done at the forge at the Duke's Citadel.
After stabling the horses the four assistants went to the glass workshop where Keth was removing yesterdays work from the annealing oven.
"Are they cool enough for us to handle?"
"Yes, grab those baskets and take all this all in to the store."
Keth helped load the baskets and as they started toward the back door to Circle Four he picked up a basket that had twelve glass spheres that appeared to be filled with fog.
Entering Circle Four through the door in the back of Tris's bookstore just as Tris entered the front door to her shop. "Tris, the rememballs are looking good. Now we need an untalented to test them on."
"The Duke is coming in today, we'll let him test one."
"Good, I'll take them over to the shop."
Following Arthur out the door Keth walked through the patio to the shop he shared with Daja and Evvy, as he walked inside he found Daja watching Evvy who was working on a stone sculpture of a dragon. Evvy had mounted a metal mirror, Daja had made, as a pond that the dragon was looking into.
Evvy had taken stone of assorted colors and using her stone magic had softened the stone so she could shape it in to the turquoise curves of a dragon about three foot long the color faded to yellow on the belly and on the trailing edges of the half raised wings, long white claws gripped the rocky stone base and the long neck was twisted around so the head was looking down into the mirror with the tigers eye stones used as eyes. A long red, forked tongue snaked out between sharp white teeth and the white bearded chin almost touched the mirror. The dragon was so detailed that individual scales could be seen.
"Evvy, that is beautiful work." Keth told her.
Evvy grinned at him, "Thank you, Keth, I like your work too."
Tris stuck her head into the shop, "Evvy, where's Galki?"
"She went early to Yazmin's for her dance lesson."
"Daja, I think you have a visitor coming."
Daja walked to the door and saw walking easily toward her was Polyam of Tenth Caravan Idaram.
The two women came together and hugged each other tightly.
"Daja, saati." Said Polyam.
"Polyam, saati, I am very happy to see you once again. So tenth caravan Idaram is back in Summersea."
"Yes, and we have some very interesting items for sale and trade."
"Come and have some tea with us." Daja lead Polyam into the shop.
"Tris, Sandry, look who's here."
"Hello Polyam"
"Good day Tris, Sandry, how has the world been treating you?""
"Not often enough." Said Tris.
"I know hear what you are saying."
"How about Tenth Caravan, did you have a good season?" Sandry asked.
"Not bad, we came through Gold Ridge valley and it's doing well, we picked up some Saffron spice at a good price, I think we got a better price than usual because of our connection to you four."
Walking into the shop Polyam stopped in front of the blue dragon and commented, "This is a beautiful piece of work."
Evvy, was trying not to stare at Polyam's seriously scarred face and missing eye. Polyam looked back with her heavy lidded dark eye under dark eyebrows. The scarring on the face made her mouth seem to sneer.
"What?" asked Polyam.
"What happened to you:"
:EVVY!" Tris said.
"That's all right Tris," to Evvy Polyam said "My horse fell and I slid down a shale covered mountainside."
Evvy winced, as a stone mage she know how sharp broken shale could be.
The silence grew, "Who made the dragon?"
Evvy looked up at Polyam, "I did."
"It's beautiful, I'll tell my Gilav about it." Looking around the shop at the shelves filled with glass, stone and metal items she said "There are many beautiful things in this shop the Giliav will want to see."
Moving over to a table Polyam examined one of the items on it. It was single stone column about two foot high, mounted on a snow white marble base three types of marble with bands and patches of yellow, pink and green winding together in a coiled, twisting column topped by a clear quartz sphere three inches in diameter. Beside is was a four sided pyramid of translucent quartz.
"What is this?"
"A lamp." Replied Evvy.
"Lamp?"
Evvy walked over to the table and placed her hand on the quartz sphere and concentrated. The Sphere burst into a bright white light. Evvy picked up the pyramid, as she lifted it Polyam could see that it was hollow with a cup at the top of the pyramid. Placing it on top of the lighted sphere the translucent pyramid defused the light to a softer illumination. Evvy rotated the shade and Polyam saw that each side of the shade was different so you could get four different intensities of light from the same lamp, five if you counted the unshielded sphere.
"Remarkable." Polyam commented, "How long will it stay lit?"
"We don't know for certain, there are some at the Citadel that have been lit for five years without any diminishing of the light intensity." Said Sandry.
Ployam turned to Daja, "I have some tea in my saddle bags and something to show Tris."
"I'll help you get them." As they walked to the door Daja asked, "Sandry, Tris if your could start some hot water and get some pastry's from the bake stall we will have a mid-morning snack."
"I'll put the water on in my bookstore."
"I'll get the pastry's. Do you want some Evvy?" asked Sandry.
"I get some later, I have some fine details to finish on the dragon."
A/N gilav - caravan leader, about the same rank as mayor p.s. can you guess where I got the names of Arthur, Conan, and Doyle for the names of some UPS workers?