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Post by bookity101 on May 17, 2009 21:27:16 GMT -5
Luxe reached up and rubbed his head sheepishly as he held the door open for Caden. “Sorry there Caden, if I focus to much on project, I forget whats going on around me.” Luxe led the way down the boardwalk, stopping outside and peering into some of the stores, shaking his head then moving on down the walk, till thy stopped in front of tanner’s. “Aha, here we go.” He said, pushing the door aside as he led the way into the shop. “We’ll find what we need in here.”
Luxe walked into the leather shop, sneezing as the smell assaulted his nose. He rubbed the offended appendage, sniffing hard as he did. He hurried to the front counter and banging once on the bell there. It was a pretty thing, the base being decretive, but sturdy, with little growing vines curling up and around the bell. Luxe admired the workbeastship, it had been made by the blacksmith before him, not that he wouldn’t use the design now that he had studied it.
Luxe waited for Tano, impatiently tapping his claws on the countertop. He banged the bell again, louder this time. “Come on Tano, hurry it up.” He muttered under his breath, he was about to pound on the bell again, when he started sneezing violently. A deep chuckle filled the room as the curtain behind the counter rustled as a slight fox with glasses walked in. “Always impatient aren’t we Luxe.”
Luxe rubbed his nose. “As always, it’s a trademark.” He grinned, then sneezed. “Actually I have something I need,” He said motioning behind to Caden, “A band for this kit here, but it will need to be able to grow as he does.”
Tano fixed his glasses, nodding, “Ok then,” He said moving to a lower part of the counter, “Place your paw here laddie, Lets see what we can come up with.”
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Post by Ladorak on May 18, 2009 10:37:52 GMT -5
Caden stepped out into the bright daylight, looking about him in various store windows and wondering if when Ladorak got some money he'd be able to buy him some things that took his fancy.
They were wandering about, heading to the tannery, which Luxe led the way into. A very musty sort of smell immediately invaded the kit's nose, and his snout twitched as the marten kit too let out a sneeze. The aroma of this place was quite different from the tavern, and Caden realized that this was his first actual time in such a place.
The stoat rang a bell, waiting for the tanner to emerge. Caden scrunched his nose up, trying his best not to sneeze again, but a small one escaped his snout before he could stop it. A smaller looking fox entered now, peering at them from over his glasses.
They had arms, unlike Ladorak's pince nez, and Caden wondered if they were any easier to wear because one didn't have to pinch the bridge of his snout in order to keep them on. The fox and stoat conversed for a bit, speaking back and forth to each other. Luxe mentioned the band and instructed Caden to get his arm up on the counter so that Tano could measure it.
"One that can grow with me..." Caden stated quietly as he raised his arm and pulled back on the sleeve, revealing more of his very white fur as he laid his forelimb out flat on the counter so that the fox could take an accurate measurement. "Is the leather you make here strong?" the marten albino asked the vulpine. "I might be living on a warship for a bit, so was just wondering."
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Post by bookity101 on May 28, 2009 19:12:45 GMT -5
Tano whipped out a measuring cord, running it around the albinos forearm in a precise manner. “This might tickle a little bit, I’ll need you to hold as still as possible.” The tanner’s paws flicked lightly over the tips of the white fur on his arms. “War ship huh?” He asked as he stepped back to look at the kit. He seemed to be one who could get himself into loads of mischief at the drop of a hankie. “Well, you will have to cut the leather that I work… Caden right?” He stepped back to look at the lad. “Though you might want to look into something that goes around your neck…” He muttered more to himself than any one, though Caden mostly likely heard him.
Tano ducked under the counter, grabbing a box of leathers, tanned to different colors from light brown to a deep almost black brown. Tano laid the box on the counter, adjusting his glasses after he did so. “What color do you want laddie?”
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Post by Ladorak on May 29, 2009 9:58:12 GMT -5
The cord did tickle the kit's skin, causing his fur to tingle and he squirmed a little, but kept still after the cord was brought to rest. He heard the fox's comment about a neck band perhaps being better, and he nodded. "Yeah...if I'm on a ship it wouldn't get caught on as many things if it's around my neck. I think you're right." he said, agreeing with the canine's comment even though it had been directed mostly at himself.
He didn't mind letting the fox measure his neck either if need be. He starting to get a little excited about this in all honesty. It would be the first time in his memory when somebeast actually made something for him. It would be his...his own. Specially made for him. It was something that the dibbun had to admit made him like it. His birthday was coming up soon too. He'd be 12....a whole year older, and then only one more year until he would turn what same called a tween. Between an adult and a kit, it would mark that transition where he would grow the last several feet and undergo the transformation into an adult marten.
Looking carefully at the different colors of leather that Tano laid out for him, Caden was already thinking about what would go good with the white fur and pink eyes of his albino demeanor. Well...brown certainly wouldn't....some of the tones might but Caden...had something specific in mind. He looked up at Luxe, then at Tano. "Um.....could I maybe get one that's dyed green? Sort of a darker...forest green. I think it would go good with my white fur and my eyes" he said, blinking his pink orbs. "Oh...."
He shifted his gaze back to Luxe. "But I don't want you to have to pay too much if dying it is a lot of money." he said. "I could just pick one of these if it'd be too expensive."
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Post by bookity101 on May 30, 2009 1:23:54 GMT -5
Luxe hid a smile behind a paw, money was not an issue for him He glanced up at Tano, wondering if the fox did do different colors of dyes. When he got a silent nod from the todd, he looked down at Caden. "I don't see why not," Luxe glanced up at Tano again "Good idea about the neck thing though, I hadn't thought of that."
Tano merely gave them both a small smile and returned the browns to their place under the counter, and put the greens on the counter instead. "Well now, He's a growing lad, the necklace won't catch on much, if I make it think, it can also act as a guard, though a slight one, to a blowt he neck." As Tano spook, he moved around the counter, so he could measure Caden's neck without making the kit bend over backwords on the counter. As he took the meaurments, Tano nodded "The green will look nice on you laddie," he stepped back and grabbed a pad of paper to write them down on, "Now, choose the color you want, and I'll go fetch what I need."
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Post by Ladorak on May 30, 2009 16:23:52 GMT -5
((This comes closest to the green for Caden's leather. www.issm-iseb.org/b2b/pics/Dark_Green_Reflective_Glass.jpg))The marten happily looked through the green, glad that Tano did in fact make some such leather as this. It also seemed that Luxe did not have a problem with paying for any of this, but Caden wouldn't push it and would only settle on the green for what he wanted. It would be enough, something that would grow with him, act as quite possibly an early birthday present and be something he intended on holding on to for a long while now. His paws eagerly held the greens, felt the thick, sturdy leather straps as they crinkled a bit under his pawpads. He ran said pads up and down and across the straps, taking in their feel beneath his touch and bending a few back and forth to test their durability. They were quite strong, and probably wouldn't break under everyday stress. Now to settle on a shade. He had a few in mind, and though it was hard to settle on one at first, he narrowed it down to three, and then two. The two choices he held in separate paws, his pink eyes roving from first one and then to the other before finally setting one down in favor of the other. "I think this color would suit best." he said, setting it out in front of the fox tanner now. "Yeah.....I want to go with this one." It was darker but not to the point where the essence of green was lost from it, and the albino thought it would go rather well with his white fur. It would look distinguished but not give off a loud tone. It was just what he was looking for. A subtle statement about himself that would not be entirely drowned out by other colors around it.
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Post by bookity101 on Jun 10, 2009 22:02:50 GMT -5
Tano nodded and smiled at the lad as he trundled off into the back to fetch what he would need to adjust for Caden. Long strip of the greens he had in the back, searching for a thicker strand then the sample Caden had pawed him. The noises of him moving the various boxes could most likely be heard outside the simple flap he had set up.
He puttered about in the back, looking for theright box. When he found the box, he continued to putter about, pulling various tools that he would need from the opposite wall. Piling all of this on top of the box lid, he backed out of the room, ducking slightly so nothing would fall off of his stack.
He set everything down on the front counter, strewing the tools over the counter as he did so. Tano motioned for Luxe to come over and open the box for him, Luxe having stronger arms then he, Luxe obliged him, prying the box lid off with ease. Tano nodded his thanks to him, and pulled to different thickness green bands from the box, he looked up at Caden as he set came around the counter holding the two bands. The only difference in the two were the widths, one would come up two inches above Cadens collar, the other 1 ½.
“Now Caden, these bands are a couple shades darker than the one you picked out,” He said as he pawed them over to the younger male, crossing his limbs across his chest after Caden had them. “The reason for this is because after a few years on that battle ship, the sun and salt will dull the color a bit, but this leather will hold its color better,” He gestured with a claw towards them, “I choose these widths guessing on how much you’ll grow, you choose which one you like better.”
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Post by Ladorak on Jun 11, 2009 9:50:58 GMT -5
The albino could hear a lot happening in the back room. He stood outside patiently waiting for the fox tanner to return. A sudden thought came into his head now about the stoat blacksmith standing in the room with him. Was this fellow gonna stay here if Ladorak got his own ship? Caden had no idea about ships and whether or not they had forges on them after all.
A short time later though the fox reappeared, scattering tools this way and that way about the desk. Well....wasn't the worst thing that could have happened. Tano had Luxe pry the box lid off and chose two specific bands of green leather for him. Caden nodded at Tano's explanation for both of them. Alright.......sounded good. It made sense that the marten would need to account for his growing body.
"Well...I'm gonna be 12 in a few days......so it'll be a bit before I stop growing. The 2 inch one would probably work for now." he told the fox. He used his pink eyes to study the widths of the two bands, and nodded at each of them in turn. The inch and a half might not be enough considering his young age. He'd been taught to be self-reliant and make his own decisions....though of course, he normally didn't think about apparel too often either.
"Yeah....I think the 2 inch one would be good." he reached out and tapped it with a claw. He could appreciate what the fox said about weathering on the color of the band too. Caden hadn't thought about that, and decided that picking a darker color made sense too.
Figuring that Tano would now be busy fixing his band up, he turned to Luxe and looked up at him with his pink eyes. "Luxe....when we go to sea, are you gonna come with us? Do you like the ocean?" he asked the stoat.
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Post by bookity101 on Jun 15, 2009 21:36:35 GMT -5
Luxe rubbed a paw over his head as he turned to Caden from his place by the window. “I don’t think I will be coming as a blacksmith.” He shook his head and grinned, “Wooden ships don’t need beasts lighting more fires on them than necessary,”
As Luxe and Caden talked, Tano continued tooling the collar so it would be a softer on the kits neck. After a while, Tano looked up again sizing up the kit, trying to guess at how long the kit would need it to be as he grew up. Then he remembered that he needed to ask Caden something about it. He looked up at the two of them, speaking up as he did so, “Caden, do you want your name put on this thing?”
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Post by Ladorak on Jun 16, 2009 11:25:08 GMT -5
Caden frowned a bit, but he understood what Luxe meant. He knew nothing about warships and didn't realize that a blacksmith on board was a bad idea. "Well maybe Ladorak could find some other job for you....do you have anything else you're good at?" he asked now, just as Tano spoke up to interrupt them.
The albino marten turned, and scrunched his snout up in thought. Huh....his name......"Yeah!" he said, nodding finally as he thought about. "Put.....put....." but he hesitated again. His last name was Freemont of course......but should he add his last name? He most definitely wasn't a Fugate after all....but the quandary he'd been facing recently once more stared him directly in the face. He barely remembered his real family......so what name should he put down?
"Um.....just put Caden on it.....no last name for now." the kit told the fox. "You can add a last name later if I want it....right?" he asked now. Even if the tanner couldn't, it was no big deal. Caden was fine with him, as it represented at the moment who he was.....a kit drifting in between families and looking for a place to firmly plant his hind paws. He'd go with his first name and his first name only for now. Until he got a better sense of himself and who he was....his first name would suffice.
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