When Pops woke up the next morning, the first thing he did was to check the apprentice quarters to see if Dominic had made it to bed or if he was still working.
There was no need to go inside the room, the door wasn't fully closed to soundproof it, and he could hear the boy snoring away and mumbling in his sleep about spearheads from down the hallway.
It was a rite of initiation for the new Apprentices to work day and night most days until they got their speed up to par, and none of the Journeymen actually expected that the apprentices would be able to get the first task that they were assigned done by dawn.
Instead, they would pretend to relent in the morning after breakfast and send their apprentices to bed for a few hours, only to drag them out of bed for lunch and put them back to work finishing the previous day's tasks.
So, as the new apprentice candidate had made it back before he woke up, Pops went to the forge after breakfast to see how Dominic had done.
