Lockdown Instadrabbling by Lindariel

Chapter 19

Prompts:  crucible beginning fire new.

Rog turned from his anvil, restless for a project other than the usual swords and spearpoints. Into his smallest crucible he dumped the last of his ilinyaisa, then set it in the fire.

With the steel beginning to melt, he sketched absently. This small knife would gleam blue near the Enemy's creatures. He would gift it to young Eärendil on his next Begetting Day.

Rog saw that he had drawn Orcs of many types, and spiders, and a small sinewy creature -- neither Elf nor Orc, but something new -- splayed froglike before the point of a knife. This knife.