Sable giggles warmly and tosses Ruby over her shoulder as she stands up.

"Hi Viole—whoa! Saaaaaaable!"

She flails.

Adorably, in the opinion of the person who inspired that flailing.

Sable reaches out with her free hand and takes Violet's hand, squeezing fondly.

And everyone else gets up and stretches a bit.

Violet gets up and stretches too, then looks over at Sable with Ruby over her shoulder and grins. 

"That's a good look on you two," she says.

Ruby splutters and blushes.

"Quite," Maya agrees with a slight smirk.

Sable giggles, nods, and steps out into the hall, leading the way to the workshop area.

Violet trails along, holding Sable's hand softly. 

It feels good to have friends.

Ruby keeps spluttering, whining, and beating against Sable's back for a decent distance, but much quieter once they're in public. Eventually she gives up and turns to Violet. "So what's this ability and how's it work and what can I do to help?"

"It's supposed to let me make like swords and shields and stuff. I'm not sure how to work on the stuff but swords and shields seem doable."

"Ooh that's really cool! I wonder how it handles mechashift?"

"I have absolutely no idea. We'll have to try it and find out."

She wiggles excitedly. A rose petal or two waft off her.

The workshops are in the same building as the various training rooms, and are conveniently very close to where the rocket lockers are stored. Sable tags into a workshop, which turns out to be spacious, with lots of stools and a variety of machining tools, as well as a forge.

Maya peels off to grab everyone's weapons, in case anyone wants to do maintenance while this is happening. The locks on the lockers really won't even slow her down.

Violet comes in and looks at the forge. 

"... I know how to use that," she says, mostly to herself. "At least, the basics. I should absolutely not know how that works at all, but I have this... instinct..."

Ruby dissolves into rose petals and reappears in front of Violet. "That's really really cool! Mysterious instinctual skill upgrades! What sort of starter project do you wanna try? A sword? A knife? A shield? I don't think we wanna try making your actual weapons, though, because those'll need mechashift."

"I think a sword sounds like a good start." Violet smiles and steps over to the forge. 

"I'll need materials. Iron, and my instincts say... I should have gemstones. Like, ruby, sapphire, diamond. Something like that." 

Ruby shakes her head. "We don't have mundane gems in here, but there's definitely Dust. Would that work?"

"We could try Dust, it's just so volatile I'd be scared about handling it safely while working with it. Maybe it's best to start with something without it before we try something with it."

She nods, grabs a few bars of iron and various steels, and sets them down in front of Violet.

... Right. 

Making a sword out of a block of raw iron is sure a thing.

Skill, any help...?

Heat the iron, then strike with your hammer like so... 

The image of a simple curved blade takes shape in her mind.

Interesting. 

She sets to work. The tools feel familiar in her hands, easy to hold, easy to guide.