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Chapter 7

Leo's POV

I had to make another trip into the ship in order to get coal (I don't know what they would actually use) to burn in the forge, but once again, the whispering didn't make an appearance. I got the coal, plus a bit more than I thought I needed to make sure I wouldn't run out, and climbed down the rope to start getting to work. I lit the coal in the forge and went to figure out the dimensions and extent of the damage I would need to repair. There were some severe dents in the ship that would need to be repaired in order for the ship to be aerodynamic to fly or hydrodynamic for when it was simply sailing. There were also a number of small holes that would need to be repaired.

I went inside the ship to inspect the engine, making my way through the dark with my ignited hand once again. I found the engine and found that the pistons were damaged from the sudden stop when the ship had hit the beach.

I left the ship and made my way to the forge to find Calypso waiting for me.

"Alright, if you insist on helping, can you get some water?" She started to open her mouth to protest, "For cooling the metal I mean, not to drink." Her mouth closed.

I smiled a little at her and she smiled back before leaving to get some water to work with. I'd made a pool of sorts for water next to the forge so I could cool the metal and make it hold its shape better than if it was just sitting on the beach slowly cooling. I put more coal into the forge and searched through the bronze to find a piece of appropriate size for the current job. The first repair I wanted to make was the large dented area on the ship, because it would feel better to have the bigger issue out of the way first.

I submerged my arms and hands into the fire holding onto an edge of the bronze sheet, waiting for it to heat up so I could mold it to the correct shape. I pulled one arm out and put it into my tool belt, pulling out a hammer to use in working the metal, setting it next to the forge, then moving my hand back to the metal in the fire.

I stirred the coal around, trying to get more heat to come through to the metal when the flames suddenly flared towards me. I flinched back and squinted at the light of it, but wasn't concerned about it. I moved back towards the fire for a moment until I realized that my shirt had caught fire from it. This usually didn't happen, but I wasn't wearing my own clothes at the moment, I was wearing some of the white clothing that Calypso seemed too have an excess of, because I had spent days in the same clothes and that was all there was to change into.

I quickly put my hands to the bottom of the shirt and ripped it off before it could spread to my pants. Having my shirt burn off was one thing, but pants… That was another, and a lot harder to explain.

I stomped the fire out of the shirt, but it was already burned beyond repair. I shook my head then went back to work without a shirt, because there wasn't really another option.

The metal was now heated enough to work, so I picked up the hammer and started hitting the metal repeatedly, molding and shaping the bronze to the shape it needed to me. I used to edge of the forge as the work space, and continually shaped the metal.

I'd been working at the metal for a few minutes when I wondered where Calypso had gone. It shouldn't take this long to get water to where I was.

I set the bronze down and turned around to look for her and saw her staring at me, her face slightly red.

Calypso's POV (Several minutes earlier)

Leo sent me to get water that he said would be used to cool the metal once it was shaped. I'd thought he was sending me to get drinking water, but he'd quickly corrected himself. It wasn't much, but I was glad to be helping with something. I went to my garden to get a bucket of sorts that I could use to bring the water to Leo.

I found the bucket then made my way to the shore, thinking about what life would be like in the mortal world. It had been millennia, and much had probably changed. I would also not be alone, with people around me.

I used to bucket to scoop water out of the ocean and stood up with it, carrying it back to where Leo was working. It took a while with the bucket, heavy with water, but I eventually made it. When I got there, I met something that surprised me, and partially embarrassed me.

Leo had his back to her, but he had no shirt on. I looked around and saw the shirt, riddled with burn marks in it laying off to the side of where he was working, then I looked back to him. He was working the bronze, swinging the hammer at it repeatedly, and I could see the muscles he had developed working at the forges, despite having supposedly deteriorated over the days of inactivity, tensing and flexing beneath his skin as he worked. I felt my face flush a little bit as I watched him working shirtless.

After several minutes of watching him work, he suddenly stopped and turned around to see me standing with the bucket of water.

I knew that my face was still flushed but I couldn't do anything about it.

I realized I was still just standing, so I walked over to him with the water. He took the bucket out of my hand and poured it into the small pool he had next to the forge. He then set the bucket down next to the pool and put his arms around me.

"Thanks for the help." He said, smiling at how red my face still was.

"Does this make you uncomfortable?" He asked, still smiling at me.

I bit my lip, not sure what to say. I'd slept on his chest and seeing him without a shirt made me blush?

I could tell he was suppressing a laugh. "Oh, shut up." I said.

"Why should I, or how are you going to make me?" He said, smirking slightly.

I smirked back at him, "I have my ways."

"And what would they be?" He said, still smirking.

I put my hand to the back of his head and pulled him into a kiss for a few seconds.

After we pulled apart a little bit, he said "Yeah, that would probably work." Then kissed me again.

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