Spears and Shields

Ruse grinned as Cerberus agreed to her idea of painting the shield and even more when he said they could paint it together. She nodded and looked back down at their work, helping with these decorative strings until her brother was ready to move on. After he had retrieved the chisel and returned to her with the spear head, she focused in on what he was demonstrating for her and taking in the information closely. Cerberus had always been good at teaching her things like this and she enjoyed his calm approach to pretty much everything they did together. When he handed off the second one for her to replicate she followed his lead, chipping away a small bit on either side to make a place for them to tie it to the pole part of the spear. She showed it to him to make sure it was correct and then as he pulled out the whetstones to sharpen them with she went to work, sliding the tool across the edges of the sharp stones to make them even more sharp.

It took a few tries for her to get a handle on the movement and grip the task needed, but she got there eventually and by the time she got through the second spear head it felt a lot more natural. The pieces of hard stone were whittled down to sharp edges all along the sides of them and they came to tapered points. She didn't know exactly how you fought with a spear, but she could imagine that these would be very painful if you got stabbed with them! While she was doing this she had heard Cerb working on the shield with heavy bangs to get it back into shape and when she looked up from her own work he had just about gotten it back into a smoother, more even shape that she figured was probably pretty reminiscent of what it had looked like once upon a time. Now they got to do the fun part. She smiled and picked up the paints that she had been given, setting out pots of black, red, white, green, and blue paints. "What do you think we should put on it?" she asked curiously as she pulled out a few brushes.

"Rusalka Alondra Klein"