Asteria, or Ash as her friends called her, was a brilliant girl. She was the daughter of an engineer of the College in the city of Helios. Her father had passed a few years before, but Ash still carried out his mission to make the city a better place. And that best way to do that was through the art of steampunk machines.
Ash ran a shop in the capital city, The Silver Gear, that handled almost everything and anything to do with machines or problems. Ash ran the shop alone with her creations. At this point it was mid morning while she was working on something for the second prince of Helios. It was a tracking system so he could track military forces and such to make sure no one was lost in the fields of battle or on missions for the crown. Ash was trying to fix a small part when the doors opened and a young girl came in, carrying a small robotic creature in her arms.
Ash looked up, her googles over her green eyes and she pushed them up. "Little Cassie, what brings you in this morning?"
Cassie was crying softly and set the creature on the work bench. "Its Tinker...his broken...a guard stepped on him..." Ash sighed and walked over, looking at the damage. The guards were rough and didn't really care about the poor people of the city. But Ash did dearly. She smiled at the young girl and picked up the creature.
"Leave him with me, Cassie...I'll have him fixed up in no time" Cassie smiled and nodded, running out of the store without another word. Ash shook her head and moved poor machine to the back table, turning the work lamp on and gathering her tools. She started working on him when she had to pause. His core was damaged badly, smashed to pieces. Ash sighed and moved back.
"I'll have to get him a new core...I think I have some in the back..." She got up and went out the back door of the shop, shutting it behind her. Behind her shop was a small yard were other of her creations liked to hang out in the sun and recharge. At the back of the yard was a storage building for the big parts she didn't have room for in the shop, or power cores she didn't want laying around. She unlocked the store door, pushing her brown hair behind her ear as she was about to walk in when she heard a roar from above her. She looked up to see a dragon fly over head. She smiled and waved at it, knowing the rider of the scaled sky master. Then she opened the door and slipped inside.