My first day at the weapon forges was insulting. I had made all kinds of weapons on the island using all sorts of parts. And these clowns just wanted me to make pistols and rifles something I'd never made in my entire life and I had no idea what I was even doing. It's a bit like expecting someone who has never baked a cake expecting them to not only bake a cake but do it perfectly. With each failure the person assigned to me would use more harsh words and language and I was extremely close to just killing her, finding Trezlan, and attempting to leave this horrible place. I didn't because I don't like leaving a problem unsolved, I wanted to figure out fire arms and how they worked, and so I kept at it, long after the person who was to train me had given up on me.
My first experiments in ranged weaponry were utter failures. Barrels that didn't line up with chambers, hammer's that couldn't connect with bullets. Just dangerous applications of technology, I suggested leaving these on the battlefield as traps for Nurzo's enemies, but my limited grasp of the language did not exactly sell this as an idea. Eventually I figured out the correct way to make rifles, pistols with their smaller parts and feed mechanisms alluded me. I was fairly proud of the rifles I produced even if the people in charge were upset it had taken me a bit to make them, I believe it was only three days but they acted like I did it on purpose. This soured me on the followers of Nurzo, on top of all the belief that I was mentally slow because I didn't speak their language.
I was very frustrated by these women and their slavish devotion to Nurzo. So I left, I couldn't find Trezlan, I figured he was probably safer with the crazy women than with me. I didn't have much, just one of my makeshift rifles and a large knife I'd managed to make on the side, but I figured I'd be safe enough and hopefully I could find some wilderness and make due until the conflict blew over. It's funny when I told Trezlan this is why he didn't see me he wasn't even angry, in fact he said that was his plan once he figured the extent of the Nurzo slaves madness. Funny how two completely different people can arrive at the same conclusion separate from each other.I guess that's one reason I put up with Trezlan, he at least is an understandable if odd person.
My plan failed of course, I didn't make it out of the city because I can't navigate urban environments and the followers of the other religion captured me. This too made Trezlan laugh when I told him because he said leaving one group to get captured by another is what would ordinarily happen to him. I have mentioned Trezlan is odd right?
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