To Give Fire

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Explosions rattled off on the Kaedreni mountains; two men tinkered and toiled at a great mechanism. They experimented with powder, and metal – with smoke and ball. 

 

“What are we doing this for?” One of them asked to the other.

 

“To give Fire to the Kaedreni – The Fire of Innovation.” The scarred man said, glaring at the valley, which was riddled with craters from the metal balls their device launched. Scraps of thick iron scattered the land nearby, from the failures of their project. though such was from the past few months of their work. These men were driven, certainly – the love of the craft persuading  every moment – even if those below the mountain would have their sleep interrupted every so often. 

 

They spent a fair deal of time, and additional effort, before that fateful day occurred; when the powder was finally more stable than it was before – the right composition, the refining of the barrel. They basked in the glory of their great machine, and so would humanity, should it pass the final test. 

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[The King Of The Moon 7016]

An young alchemist too curious for his own good listens to the great cracks as they shake the mountain and bounce across lake Milena, deciding it high time he asked his father for a lab.