Solo Getting started with wood

[Coren]

fall 6th Coren made his way through the slowly darkening streets of avanthal, the hustle and bustle from during the day was still there, but now the atmosphere was to get everything done as quickly as they could so they could go inside and pass the rest of the evening passing stories to their family. He gave a quick glance at the setting sun and hastened his pace. He didn't want to be late for his first lesson. He couldn't stand tardy people, so he was going to follow his own rules and never be tardy himself. He might be going slightly nuts but he was never going to contradict his own values. Much to coren's satisfaction he managed to arrive at the strings and things well before the time they had agreed upon. He stood tall and knocked on the door, waiting for somebody to open up and let him inside. Before long a yell came from the other side of the door. “Come on in! The door is open.” He didn't care a lot for standing outside in the dark so he just walked inside. Where he was quickly greeted by parrsni from behind the desk “You are early Coren, technically we still aren't closed, but I don't think we are going to have many customers now anyway, that and the work for today is done as well. So I don't think it will be hard to find you somebody who wants to teach you the basics of carpentry. Follow me.” Parrsni motioned for him to follow to the back of the shop. As coren walked into the workshop part of the shop he was taking a look around the shop, a bunch of wood was stored in one part of the workshop, and tools and half finished projects where carefully stored around the store, quite obviously ordered in a way, but it used a way of ordering he wasn't familiar with. He pulled his attention away from the shelves and the workshop as Parrsni spoke up towards the four vantha still “So I need a volunteer who will teach Coren,” He motioned towards him while he was speaking, what coren noticed though was that half of the people in there suddenly became as white as a sheet, seems like his “The guy was interested in learning carpentry, so who has time to show him the ropes, there is a small bonus connected to it to whoever takes it.” The male who was still cleaning up his part of the shop shook his head. “Don't have any time to teach anybody now parrsni. The baby arrived a few days ago, so I'm having my hands full at home right now.” The man continued packing up his things, the female who had become as pale as a sheet spoke up “The day I help a mage of all people is the day I give up playing an instrument! Who knows what he would do to you!” The woman shrieked, backing away from him in the process, while the male next to her was obviously nervous and backed away. Coren let out an annoyed sigh, why did something like this happen every single day? “Calm down kalin!” Parrsni barked in a stern tone. “Mage or not, Coren is still a customer and hasn't done anything yet to earn your ire like that, I won't force you to teach him but I will demand that you will act civil to him as long as he hasn't done anything to you. Do you understand?” Parssni's gaze flicked over towards the other pale young male vantha standing next to him, the young man seemed to shrink underneath the mans gaze. “And I'm guessing you have the same reservations to him, by morwen what kind of prejudged people are you?” Parrsni continued his admonishment. “Well, if nobody else wants him I'll help him out.” The one remaining vantha in the room spoke up. Coren let out a small sigh of relief, finally they could just get this over with and get all of this drama out of the way. When he turned towards the final voice he honestly was surprised. The hair of the girl in front of him were pulled into sawdust filled dreadlocks there was a tribal tatoo covering half of her face and for some reasons she had found a reason to shove a small iron ring through her lower lip. All in all she was the poster child of either a rough frostfawn or a very very rebellious other vantha. Still he couldn't be picky. “Fine by me, I don't care who learns me how to work with wood as long as I get the lessons.” Coren spoke up after being silent for the entire time. “So can we get on with it actually? I don't really want to waste time with people who don't listen anyway.” He motioned towards the two pale vantha, who shrunk away at his attention, pulling another annoyed sigh out of him. He wasn't going to bite for gods sake. An awkward silence stretched after his sentence. “Well then, Norina I'll leave Coren in your capable hands then. Horic, hope everything goes well with the wife and the first baby.” Parrsni said with a smile on his face as he broke the silence. The smile melted of his face as he loked towards the other two vantha “Gars, kalin we will talk later about this. Now get please get out so you agitate him further.” The two vantha bolted out of the building as fast as he could while the fresh father just said his goodbyes first before bolting of towards his family. Parrsni gave an apologetic grin. “Well sorry for the trouble, I'll leave you to your lesson with Norina.” He apologized before giving Norina a stern look. “Now don't do anything foolish while you are here with him, make sure all the equipment is stored away, make sure to remember how much wood you used up in the lesson and lock up afterward.” He handed a key to Norina who slipped it in her pocket. “Now I'll leave you two to your business.” Parrsni said as he walked towards the door. “See you tomorrow Norina.” He gave a last wave before walking outside. Coren turned towards his teacher, who was looking at him with a pensive look on her face, rubbing the iron bar in her lip as she did so. “Why are you looking at me like that Norina?” he said in an apathic tone. She ducked a bit trying to get a look underneath his hood. Promting coren to roll his eyes once more. Great one of the overly curious people who tried to get a glimpse of his face. “Just wanted to know if the rumors really where true about you wearing a mask underneath that hood of yours. Seems like some rumors are true after all.” She said in a flippant tone and a smile on her face. “Anyway, strange habits of you aside, lets get started on the lesson!” she grasped a set of heavy leather gloves and threw them towards him, Coren only barely caught them “First thing, safety first, You don't want any splinters in your fingers from the wood, they are a pain to get out and if you don't get everything of it out it has a high chance of getting infected. And Let me tell you, that isn't a cakewalk. So keep those things on if you are working with wood.” She grabbed a set for herself and pulled them on. “Second thing is shaping the wood into what you want.” She pointed towards the storage full of wooden blocks. “Why don't you be nice and go and get me some logs we can work with?” Coren just nodded and pulled out three heavy blocks of wood, letting out an annoyed groan at their weight and just made his way over towards the table they where working on. “So, how do we shape the wood into anything we want? A chisel?” Norina just shook her head and deposited a few tools on the table. “We don't use a chisel for it, it doesn't work fast enough to shape it, thats all detail work. We use the ,pencil and ruler to measure out our work beforehand, the saw to cut the wood and some sandpaper to smooth the wood out later. Yes there is more about it but this is just for the basics. You got all that?” Coren nodded “Yes, things like a ruler and a saw aren't hard to use, nor is sandpaper.” At his response she just let out a laugh. “It all seems nice and easy till you start on it, here, why don't you saw that piece of wood down the middle to start with?” Coren didn't even bother with a response to the challenge and just grabbed the ruler and began to measure the thing.