Seeing Blair holding onto the dagger as if it was her baby, Aster knew what the answer to the "deal" he offered to her was, and that signaled the mark of the end of the lesson, still, while he was taking off the safety equipment, he didn't forget to say.
"There are still a couple of hours before sleeping time, so before bathing, crush the ore to make piles of four kilograms each and lit up the furnaces that I'll bring, you can leave your iron in them and let it be processed through the night, the ones on watch duty will help you remove them from the bloomery".
"The rest of the process will continue tomorrow, because it will be too late into the night for hammer noises, also go to sleep early, because we'll begin our day early as well".
This was a good idea to gain time, though the cleaning process will have to wait until tomorrow, the bloom can be left to cool down some hours before being heated up when needed, without any problem.
