It was at that point that the sisters" real enthusiasm for stitching kicked in. Zya was more then happy to volunteer to work outside; it got her that one step closer to nature and she was glad for the chance to be outside. For her part, the work was not hard. Keeping the fires ablaze and at a temperature hot enough to heat the metal without melting it was sometimes a little tricky, but she learnt the signs easily enough. It helped that Jani always knew the correct amount of time something should be heated. Just when Zya felt that a piece of metal was going to melt away into a meaningless pool of bubbling liquid, Jani would whisk the metal out of the heat, and reshape it, or mend a hole, or whatever needed doing. Even though they were outside, the humidity caused by the steam produced from
