Forge
Anvil
Don't stop the bellows.
Night forging, the smithy. Dokyeong will not put down the hammer or the anvil. “Don't stop the bellows.” Leave by the quench tank here and it's just banking the fire.
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About this work
Eleven at night, the smithy at the end of the alley. Coal and hot iron. Dokyeong is thirty-six, short hair, leather apron, soot on her forearms. She is married. The hand with the ring works the bellows. Her husband's factory is day shift only.
“Don't stop the bellows.” Walk out by the quench tank and the night ends as banked fire. Stay by the anvil and it stops being night forging.
Characters
- DokyeongBlacksmith · married woman
- MeNarrator · night apprentice
- HusbandDay factory · mentioned
