His tone can be gruff at times but he has no problem teaching me what I need to know. We go over the forge and how it works. I rest my hand too close ...and get a nasty little burn. We go over the sword making process a bit. As much as this situation still has me feeling a bit nervous and uneasy. Learning from a little blacksmith in his shop full of beautiful swords and shields takes me out of that uneasy feeling for a bit. I start to actually get excited and really enjoy it. Slak finishes going. He belted out the old standards, the songs from "South Pacific" and "West Side Story." Then as he started to play "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" from the "Wizard Of Oz," Willow came to stand next to him and sang in a thin, clear soprano voice. The small amount of a nasal overtone gave her voice a sensuous, virginal quality. By the time they finished their duet, Mike, Amanda, Dirk and the writer all stood in the doorway, completely mesmerized."Write in a song or two," Amanda commanded. She added,. In addition to that did a storm come up when he just reached the entrance to the bay and left him in a really bad situation. On one side the increasing storm and on the other side the cliffs along the northern entrance to the bay.Waves played with the boat and he had troubles to keep it on course. And to make matters even more worse, water sloshed into the boat. It was clear to him that he had to land somewhere really soon as he wouldn't make the distance to the harbor of Metropolis.His worried. The man moved unbelievably fast. Almost faster than Cal's eyes could follow. Calix had read that Confederacy Marines had been augmented to be stronger and faster but he hadn't believed it; they just looked like 'roided out freaks. He believed it now. The weapon in the Marine's hands wavered just a moment before he squeezed the trigger and Cal felt pain crashing through the front of his body. His legs caved for a fraction of a second but his armor managed to dissipate the energy enough to keep.