If you stepped back it just looked like any shop, just the produce was a bit different lol. I was feeling nervous but relieved I had a job, and the pa... was better than I would get in the supermarket. It was about 15 mins until the first customer came in. He just came in, picked up a couple of bottles of lube and paid. Didn’t really say anything but wasn’t as awkward as I thought it would be. The next customer surprised me as it was a woman! Probably late 40’s who bought a sex toy. We had a. Put a coat of paint on it, and you’d never realize what you had. Let’s see here. 16.4 ounces. Rub it on the stone and apply some nitric acid. Very good, it didn’t dissolve. And a touch of aqua regia ... very good. Now to do the true test.” He pulled out some clear glass containers and chemicals, humming while he worked. He made a couple of more marks on a different stone with the weight, then put some other chemicals on them.He waited a few minutes, then pulled the stone out of the container. It was like nothing the Captain had ever seen before. “What do you make of it?” Rael mused as he turned the arrow slowly in his hand, feeling the weight of it. “Ain’t no Haruke arrow or I’m a Hill Giant’s youngling,” StoneFingers replied. Rael had known that immediately. Haruke preferred engaging their enemy in melee, face to face with their foes, but what bowmen they had were skilled archers. Their arrows tended to be on the thick side, driven by powerful bows crafted from the trees of the. " Dad!" I’m not going to argue about this." And he left, unsatisfied again.She sobbed and moped for a day. Eventually she worked up to texting Nathan to tell him her life was complicated right now and she didn’t think they should see each other again. Then she blocked his number, not able to deal with the natural questions he would have. Her father didn’t come over that night for the first time since this had all started. She felt bad, knowing how his frustration was building without release.