Chapter 15: Crafting lesson

Chapter 15: Crafting lesson

'Chill mate , you seem more excited about finally using the workshop than me!" Nick joked with Harry who was already starting to recover from his malnourishment after a week at the orphanage. He wasn't at a healthy weight just yet but at least he wasn't nearly as scrawny as he was when Nick first met him. "How are you not excited!?" Harry asked in exasperation. That was the one trait that Harry was trying his hardest to break Nick out of , how unexpressive he was. It was clear to Harry that Nick was a very reserved individual and had trouble truly relaxing in the past week they've lived together and it bothered him.-

Harry knew all about keeping quiet so as to avoid attention , the Dursleys made sure of that. But Nicks silence was completely unnecessary and felt wrong to Harry , like the very thought of relaxing his guard scared Nick. He didn't know what had happened to make Nick like this but he didn't need to in order to try and help his friend recover from it. "I am reasonably excited about finally getting to work but you don't even know how to craft so it's weird how eager you are about it." Nick said with a roll of his eyes.-

"You're going to be turning scrap we found in the rubbish into literal treasure , whats not to be excited about?" Harry asked rhetorically with a smug look since he knew he won this discussion. Nick could only raise his hands in defeat since they both knew that Harry had a point and he had lost the battle. "I promise you'll change your tune when I actually get started since the whole process is honestly kinda boring." he said with a smirk. Harry looked less confident 'it can't be that bad.... right?' he thought worriedly.-

Nick Stopped after five minutes and put the metal that was nearly twice it's original length and half it's height into the fire again. He then turned to Harry "So did you figure it out yet?" he asked curiously. "By drawing out the metal it gets easier to obtain just the right amount when you break it into different pieces right?" Harry asked seriously. "Something like that , yeah. A small correction is that I won't be breaking the metal but segmenting exactly." Nick answered honestly. "Whats the difference?" Harry asked confused. "Segmenting is precise while breaking is not , if I was just messing around breaking the metal would be fine. But since I already have a design in mind segmenting works better." Nick explained patiently.

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