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Keldava glared petulantly at the twig in her hand as though the power of her gaze could somehow make it sprout 6eathers and become a perfect arrow. Admittedly it was a rather smooth twig with all the bark and branches taken off but with the varying thickness of the wood and the fact that it actually curved it was far from the arrow that Keldava had been trying to make.
Keldava loved her new bow and the leather belt/quiver combination Mahnaya had made her to go along with it and carried the two items almost everywhere she went in Optime form but the quiver looked rather silly with just the four arrows she had gotten with the bow rattling around inside it. Plus she was well aware that arrows weren’t the most durable of things and could easily break or get lost. While there were likely people she could ask to trade arrows to her Keldava had decided that she wanted to make her own and had set out trying, her bow resting against the side of the house next to her in anticipation of trying out her new arrows.
Unfortunately several hours of work had left Keldava with little more than a variety of smooth but misshapen twigs scattered over the patch of ground where Keldava was working, ringing the spot where the girl was sat cross-legged like debris from an explosion and several cuts on her hands and fingers where the knife had slipped. And splinters. Keldava didn’t like to think about the splinters, she was going to be picking them out of her pads for weeks by the feel of it! Keldava had tried to start simple - straight shaft with a pointed end carved on – and then work on adding stuff like feathers and an actual arrowhead but unfortunately even that first step had proved far beyond Keldava’s skills with a knife.
Huffing Keldava snapped the twin in half and picked up a fresh piece of wood, this time trying to start from a slightly thicker branch. Tongue poking out of her mouth in concentration Keldava bent over her work, carefully running her knife along the branch to strip the bark off.
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