<hr/><div align="center"><em>Lucius Spaces Out</em></div><hr/><br/>Lucius chuckled at the reaction he got from the girl at the other table... she was cute, to say the least.  One of his half sisters elbowed him and smirked, whispering something into his ear, causing him to smile.  He would have to talk to her at some point, that much was certain.  He really did want to get to know his fellow, erm... what was the word... 'half gods', other than his siblings and she seemed like a good place to start.  Then he noticed the sour look from the guy sitting next to her.  It was subtle, but he was good at picking up subtleties.  He wasn't the best with a sword, though for whatever reason he did seem to know how to use it with a certain amount of skill that he couldn't account for... but he knew the subtle nuances of the social arena.  Maybe he was her boyfriend... no, that couldn't be it.  They were at the same table... they had to be siblings.  Ahhh, so he was just an overprotective brother trying to protect his sister from the son of Aphrodite's evil loins.  He almost chuckled at that.  He would have to talk to him at some point as well... assure him that he didn't mean anything bad.<br/><br/>He sighed a touch and shook his head as thoughts of needing proper jewelers' tools came to mind once more.  He needed burs, files, saws... well, he needed a lot.  Not to mention a torch for soldering.  Especially now that he had been shown a new metal to work with... 'celestial bronze'.  It sounded like a challenge, and he loved challenges.  He had worked with gold, silver, platinum, palladium, zinc and even nickel and he was looking forward to working with this supposed magical material.  He wondered what it's hardness/toughness rating was.  Most metals had similar hardness and toughness, unlike gems.  Diamonds had a high hardness but a relatively low toughness.  They could scratch almost anything but could be shattered by a good smack with a hammer.  One of his sisters nudged him and asked if he was ok.  He snapped out of it and smiled, nodding.<br/><br/><strong>"Yeah, sorry... just spaced out a bit."</strong>