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During the night Dovian had let Adenah sleep, only checking in every few hours to make sure she was still alright. By the time she woke up it was late morning and he was still working.

He was dripping sweat, covered in ash and soot yet again, and hammering away at a piece of steel. Of course there was a 'customer' in the shop as well. A regular who came in mostly just to harass Dovian.

"When will you be done today Dovian? Perhaps I could entertain you?" The woman too close for Dovi's liking but he couldn't be rude to a customer.

"I'm not sure when my work will be done, Netali. And no thank you, I have plans." Once he made sure Adenah was alright and he was finished with work he was going to go home and crash. Hard. He'd been up for over twenty four hours and was feeling the effects of exhaustion. "Please step back so you don't get burned." If the woman didn't move he was tempted to simply pick her up and move her himself. Lack of sleep had taken his patience and was making him feel some irritation.

Despite the warning from Dovian the woman placed a suggestive hand on his bicep. She could tell he was a bit different from usual and figured she might be able to convince him to join her after work. Netali opened her mouth to say something else but was cut off when she heard the voice of another woman.

Dovian had paused in his work to look at the hand that touched him, a muscle twitching in his jaw as he restrained himself from yelling at the woman. A deep breath in and he tried to calm his building temper. Thankfully, as he let the breath out, Adenah came to his rescue. His green eyes moved over to look at Ade as she came out of the room, though he did linger slightly on the exposed thigh and crystals as was intended. That was a mistake. Even he couldn't deny the woman was very appealing.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" Netali didn't seem pleased with Ade's appearance.

Dovi tightened his jaw as he grit his teeth somewhat and raised his eyes to look Adenah in the face, forcing his brain to refocus. By that time she'd started to walk forward. Her threat to the 'customer' was amusing, however, and caused him to give a half smirk.

"Did we wake you?" As he spoke he set the hammer down so that he could reach over and grab Netali's hand to remove it from his arm. "You can sleep a bit longer if you want, or was there something you needed?" Was she hungry? He hadn't had much for her to eat before. If she wanted new clothes then he was going to need her help with that one, he didn't know her size at all. Turning to give Adenah his full attention he hoped that would be enough to let Netali know he was dismissing her. He disliked the idea of being rude but she was pushing buttons he didn't have the patience to deal with today.

"Hm, thought I adjusted my strength enough not to bother you." Dovian was clearly talking about how hard he was using the hammer. He thought he'd been considerate enough to soften the strikes and not make too much noise. As Ade compared the woman to a perzi in heat he pressed his lips together and looked to the side. "Huh? I wasn't aware I fed any strays." Not only did he not actually entertain the beasts that roamed the streets he also didn't typically show any interest in anyone when they flirted. So how he ended up in these situations was beyond him.

Netali glared hard at Adenah as she came closer and even gave a bit of a disgusted look. "Dovian, I wasn't aware you paid for company." She gave the venom right back to the woman. She stepped closer to the blacksmith, ignoring any boundaries that Ade was respectful of. "I believe he's working on my commission now. Offering your body won't put you at the front of the line so why don't you leave? Clearly your work is done."

Dovian tensed a bit, both at Netali's comment and her closeness, and reached up to pinch the bridge of his nose. He wasn't nearly rested enough to deal with this. "Netali." He said in a low, rough tone that left no room for argument. "Do not insult her again." She might not look it but Ade could be quite dangerous and he didn't want to clean up blood again so soon. He took that moment to step away from Netali, just one step, and give him some breathing room but it put him extremely close to Adenah instead. "And I can assure you, she wouldn't need to offer that to get to the front of the line." Seeing as Adenah worked for a certain guild then all she had to do was use that as a means to get her commission done first. Not that anyone else knew that.

The death stare that Netali gave Adenah couldn't be mistaken for anything else. She clearly did not like the hybrid. As a pure Oban she felt she was better than than Ade. Despite Dovian's mixed heritage he looked Oban for the most part and that was fine, besides his eyes were a striking feature.

Dovian looked at Adenah with a raised brow as she touched his arm. Since he considered her a friend and the touch hadn't been suggestive he didn't seem to mind it too much. Of course he wasn't distracted by the hair flip. Oh no! Dovian took a breath in and turned so that he was behind the curvy hybrid, one hand grabbing her by the waist and pulling her back into him while his other grabbed her hand before it could grab the hammer. His body covered most of her and he made sure to growl at her to show his disagreement. The action, to an outsider, looked very inappropriate and in hind sight Dovi figured he could have stopped her another way but he was too tried to think in complex tones right now. Putting his mouth close to Ade's ear and lowering his voice to a deep rumble he spoke just to her. "I will pick you up and carry you back to the room if you try to attack a customer. Even an annoying one." It was the only warning Ade was going to get and he made sure to hold her with just enough strength that she couldn't slip away from him.

Netali took all this in and turned red faced. She was beyond annoyed with the hybrid woman. Since it was her first time seeing her near Dovian she wasn't sure just how important she was but Netali had been trying for months to get the blacksmith's attention so this was unfair.

"Both." He answered Ade in the same low tone.

Netali stomped her foot before she simply walked out. There wasn't more she could do other than to shriek and scratch the woman's eyes out, which she was sure Dovian wouldn't find at all attractive.

The blacksmith spared a glance toward Netali as she chose to leave, though it appeared to be more of a glare from his current position, almost as if she were intruding on a private moment and that served only to make her move faster. When the other woman was gone and he felt Adenah move her head he looked down at her but had to lean his head to the side a bit. Her threat was a very real one and he was aware of it. So he let go and stepped back as he rolled his eyes skyward. When he looked back at his friend he sighed. "Did you wake up and choose violence today?" He motioned to the hammer she had been about to pick up.

After that he ran his hand through his dreads since they were down. Dovian wasn't sure if she just wasn't a morning person or if she needed fed first. "How are you feeling?" He turned his attention to more pressing matters, making sure she was alright.

As she answered 'always' he rolled his eyes at her. Dovian could actually see her doing it though. "A 'me' move? Just what is that supposed to mean?" Dovian gave her a quizzical look. When she expressed her dislike of pushy pure blood he offered up a snort and moved so that he could grab the hammer and the steel he'd been working with. The steel, now cold, was set aside for later, and the hammer was put on the workbench. "Netali is a regular customer. She comes in about once a month to place orders for her family's business but she likes to stop in more often for a chat." And they all seemed to go just like the one from earlier where she flirted and got too close and interrupted his work. "She's not the only one either..."

With his tools put up for the time being he looked over at Adenah. "Hunger I can help.." Being told he needed sleep made him chuckle and grin at her. "Yeah, but there was a beautiful lady sleeping in my bed and I didn't want to leave you here alone." Besides, working through the night wasn't uncommon for him. He did it often when he wanted to get a commission done or he was behind due to interruptions. When asked if he had anything else for her to wear he looked her up and down then shook his head. "Afraid not. Give me your measurements and I can go buy you something to wear." And while he was out he could get her something to eat. "The only other option is for me to wrap you in the blanket, throw you over my shoulder, and carry you to my house. I have some clothes there." Dovian crossed his arms over his chest with a light grin.

She had a point there. Dovian had grabbed her before. Showing a bit of embarrassment over it his face flushed some, giving his cheeks a deeper color. "Ah, sorry about that.." He had only wanted to prevent her from doing something dangerous.

His hand moved up to rub the side of his neck as she told him to wear more clothes when he worked. "Its a bit hot for that. I usually wear less when I know I won't be interrupted.." Dovi was shirtless, it was true, but he still had his pants, boots, and waist apron on. When he knew for certain he wouldn't be interrupted the apron came off and his pants were loosened so he wasn't overheated. "And my sisters are usually the ones to chase the admirers off." He looked at Adenah and chuckled a bit. The fact that she'd done something his siblings usually did was amusing to him.

When she told him he likely couldn't carry a feather he blinked and looked down at himself. He was tired, sure, but he wasn't weakened because of it. When Adenah came over to give him the note with her measurements on it he grinned. "Mhm." Without warning the blacksmith stepped closer to her, put both hands on her waist and lifted with almost no effort behind it and picked her up. For a second he stood there with her like that, his head tilted back with a self satisfied smirk, then he moved over to the workbench and sat her down on it. He leaned closer, his face getting close to her neck as he looked over her shoulder, one hand leaving her waist so he could grab the pouch of coins he kept there. "You must weigh less than a feather then."

With his coins in hand he pulled away, his other hand leaving her waist to take the note from her. "I'll be back in a bit, try not to attack any customer if they come in." And with that he step away to head out the door.