You decide speed is of the essence. Grabbing a long iron bar, you whistle nonchalantly and begin hammering the end into a flat pointed tip. You won’t be able to throw it effectively, but it should stab just fine. Just as long as you get the drop on it and there isn’t a group of them like the first time.
As you work, you pretend that you are crafting a tool to make fixing jammed gears easier, hoping that will fool the squiddies. Still, you can’t help but keep your good eye on both your work and the door, waiting for them to come and punish you a second time for you blatant defiance. Your work is not interrupted, even while you grind the tip on the lathe, achieving a razor sharp edge on the spearhead. Perhaps they didn’t notice or perhaps they bought the deceptive picture in your mind’s eye of using the “new tool” to force a jammed gear after having so much trouble with the last one…
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