Sasha4 May 2004

I'm not sure why, but "as hard as ore" doesen't seem as strong to me as "eran de acero" (Which has an even stronger resonance with a hard Castillian "th" sound, though Storni probably didn't actually pronounce it that way), perhaps use "They were pure iron" or "They were sheer steel" though I'm not sure how the rhyme would work there