The black smith. (Astero and St Valentine)

The farm owned by Asterio's family had long been in the shadow of Black Cat Bay, supplying numerous vegetables and other animal produce to numerous clients, except of course meat and egg produce as it went against the beliefs of Asterio's family. The farm was a good fifty miles out from the city, with numerous fields, buildings devoted to the storage of produce and of course the well being of the animals. The main site of the farm was a large house, created from wood and closer to a mansion, which Asterio's family had built between many hundreds of years ago. Venturing away from the family house there was a large collection of barns, granaries and storage buildings. The barns where obvious in there purpose, to protect the animals from the weather and give them a home. Granaries where used to store grain and other things that the animals ate. Lastly you had the storage buildings, which stored produce, such as vegetables and milk, as well as vehicles, farming tools, other supplies and so on so forth.

Beyond the prior mentioned buildings there was little else on the farm, except of course acres and acres of fields, all devoted to growing different crops depending on the season. Currently it was autumn so the farm had been growing the vegetables that where in season, things such as Turnips, Cauliflowers, Onions, Potatoes and so on so forth. But for now let us return to the house, or more accurately the large barn attached to it. It was this barn that Asterio had set her blacksmith up in, making many things the farm needed, such as horseshoes and shackles; she also sharpened tools and created new tools as well. Currently Asterio was sitting in this black smithy, which also doubled as her own house. The female was in her Minotaur form, sitting at the anvil hammering away at a cow bell, to replace the one she was currently wearing around her neck. Asterio wore cow bells as a sort of necklace attached to a choker, using them for the sake of decoration.

As Asterio hammered away at the cow bell, she wondered when the representative from the church would arrive, and on that note the Minotaur was also wondering who it would be. Over the years Asterio had been commissioned a few times by the church, and had met more than a few of the church's members, hence why she wondered who it was today. After a few more moments of hammering away at the bell it was finished, so Asterio grabbed the nearby tongs and used them to the pull the bell from the fire. With the bell in the grip of the tongs, Asterio pushed it inside a nearby barrel of ice cold water, and a large amount of steam hissed angrily. As the bell was in it's shape, it needed to be rapidly cooled down before Asterio could complete the next step of things, of course the bell cooling down would take a while.

And it was while Asterio was waiting for the bell to cool down that she heard a knocking sound on the door of her forge, which could be many different things, ranging from the church's representative to Asterio's own siblings. Standing up, the Minotaur hummed and changed back into her human form, the clothes she was wearing shrinking to fit more comfortable around her significantly less busty human body. "Coming!" Asterio walked towards the door, removed her apron and put it on a hanger nearby, then opened the door. Before Asterio was a girl with pink hair with a blush on her face, holding a sheet of paper in her hand. The fact that this pink haired girl with cat ears was blushing was kind of weird, but that said this girl also had two tails, which was weird..although Asterio's Minotaur form had a tail too. "Hello, um..how can I help you?" Asterio asked how she could help this cat girl.