Vivian leaned back on her couch with two fresh hoops of gold and silver sitting before her, glowing slightly. Wiping the sweat from her brow with a heavily scarred arm, she channeled some Astral into her eyes to scan the energy entering and leaving the trinkets. Smiling, she judged that the enchantments she’d placed on the first one would last an even decade, while her work was a tad sloppier on the second.
“Be lucky to squeeze out four years with that one,” she sighed. Her armband sent a chill down her arm, bringing a chuckle to her lips, “new customer?”
The morning rush had been most of the traffic the shop had seen, with the occasional merchant coming in to buy large cuts of cloth or make bulk orders. Silas handled it all, while his son raced between the first and second floor with sc
