Chapter 188: Back In Town
After a short and sweet encounter with Stella, Kir decided to take a stroll with his new glamour, glad to fine it could properly project whatever clothes he turned Mimzy into.
Kordia wouldn’t be back until evening, so he thought maybe he could surprise her with a visit.
Business within the city was largely conducted by trade over the lake, so it had been quicker to recover in fits and starts depending on which ships arrived or were allowed to dock first. Luxuries were few, but Kir managed to find a baker who was selling something similar to a sweet tofu pastry that he remembered Kordia liking from the Academy cafeteria.
He put in an order for a dozen, paying up front, and had a quarter-hour to wait, so he decided to wander a block away to Enumasam’s smithy.
He found the smith with his back to the street, the movement of his arms in parallel suggesting he was twisting something, as an orcish man counted and tabulated bags of nails, steel architectural braces, crowbars, spades, shovels, and holding posts.
"Hello in the forge!" Kir called out with a smile, watching the spectral lips of his glamour pull back to match.
The orcish man approached and shook Kir’s hand. "I’m Goro, his husband. He won’t talk to you while he’s concentrating. Some asshole sent him designs for a new weapon and it’s all he’s been working on all night." Goro gestured at a set of long and short tubes that were laying aside, cracked or warped.
"I’m..." Shit, I didn’t think this far. "Na..."
"Na?"
"Narumi. Narumi Kiryu."
"Stealing my name now?" Kiryu protested.