"A blacksmith????? Really???????? But you're so young!!!!!!!!!!"

Being a woman, now, that wasn't a deterrent, but Nina had never met a blacksmith so close to her age--not a full-fledged one, at least.

"But that's amazing!!!!!!!!!!" she enthused, taking her hand back and feeling a little flustered that a girl had kissed her hand and yet, at the same time, charmed?