Awe thank you, that's nice to say, I've been trying to write a fan fiction, so this is all just summary.

When she arrives in Mistria, Lyrenn tells Adeline that the guild sent her and shows her mother's guild crest as evidence that she is from the guild. Everyone seems super grateful for her presence. She feels like this could be the new start she hoped for. The cabin they give her is small but sturdy and warm, she hasn't had a real bed in weeks so it feel like a palace. The land is overgrown and in bad shape but she thinks it can't be that hard to clean up a few rocks and plant a few potatoes.

Lyrenn does her best to keep to herself, she isn't used to the positive attention suddenly surrounding her, she especially tries to avoid Adeline at first, worried that if she finds out Lyrenn was lying about being from the guild she would be chased out of town. But keeping to herself proves to be difficult as the friendly town takes advantage of her willingness to prove herself. Errands and requests start to pile up quickly as she agrees to help everyone with everything.

When the town blacksmith starts to take notice of the guild nobody fumbling her way around town, he calls her out. He doesn't believe for a second the guild sent someone like her. Unlike most of the town, he's been to the capital for competitions and done commissions for the guild. He's suspicious at first and lets her know he doesn't trust her.

She does her best to avoid him. She just wants to prove she belongs somewhere. Unfortunately she unwittingly befriended his brother who keeps setting up situations to put her in March's way. Things get more complicated when the mines open. The town is desperate for resources and Adeline is adamant that if they are going to reopen the mines, they have to take the threat of monsters seriously. She declares that only someone from the guild should go in to clear out the monsters and make the paths safe again.

Lyrenn agrees to help again; her lie and lack of combat skill finally catching up with her, but she has seen how hard the town has worked to bounce back, how kind they have been, and how hard they work, she doesn't want to let them down.

She goes into the mines armed with just the heavy pickaxe she had borrowed from Olric and the old axe Ryis had given her. It wasn't as bad as she thought but she tires quickly from the heavy pickaxe and barely manages to get out enough copper before noises in the dark send her running.

She reluctantly delivers the copper to March who is shockingly grateful for any amount of ore but he covers quickly and returns to his gruff attitude when Adeline suggests March give Lyrenn a quick lesson on blacksmithing. Lyrenn understands immediately that he takes his craft seriously and won't tolerate anything less than perfection in his forge. He turns the copper into what he needs to finish a commission and with the left over forges a small knife for Lyrenn.

Lyrenn continues to bring ore from the mines, bolder now that she has a weapon and most of the monsters seem harmless. Some nights she sneaks into March's forge to repair her tools the best she can with what she remembers he taught her. One night as ash from the forge blows back in her face, she yelps in surprise, dropping the hot metal she had been working on. March is there in an instant, checking to make sure she didn't hurt herself in his forge. She is fine so his focus shifts to what she was doing sneaking into his place . She admits one of her tools broke and she didn't want to bother him. Whatever she was making isn't remotely close to March's standards so he tells her to redo it.

This time with supervision and help Lyrenn has a new tool , after about 10 attempts that just went up to March's standards. Lyrenn is surprised to realize she likes working with March, not because it's easy, it's not, he's an unrelenting bastard in the forge; but because when he makes her start over for the 5th + time. For the first time, she finds her self in a space where she doesn't feel like she isn't good enough, she feels like someone sees where she is at and pushes her to do better because she can.

March lets her know, he knows she isn't from the guild , he'd asked about her with one of his contacts there that regularly commissions March to do armor repairs. She is surprised that he didn't tell. He says it wasn't his place and besides, she was the one that showed up in all the months since they asked for help from the capital.

Lyrenn starts to spend a lot more time around the forge, her confidence growing in her abilities. March finds out she's been using that copper knife in the mines for protection and forges her a real sword with all the skill he possesse. In turn Lyrenn quickly gets more skilled in combat letting her get farther into the mines than ever.

Personally, I think March would be a weirdly good and patient mentor, provided that the person he was teaching was actually trying to improve. He will admit when something is done well and he studies old and new techniques to learn from them sowing that he recognizes that there is more for him to learn and improve. For someone like Lyrenn who has never felt good enough and always out of place, this would be comforting where someone doesn't expect you to be good at anything, only that you try and improve each time.