Madness string 44328

Random mermaid
Forget stardust - you are iron. Your blood is nothing but ferrous liquid. When you bleed, you reek of rust. It is iron that fills your heart and sits in your veins. And what is iron, really, unless it's forged? You are iron. And you are strong.

I used to subscribe to the 'no stupid questions' school of thought. But having been in the army, and now teaching this trade, there are indeed stupid questions. Like, I'd rather you ask before crashing my machines, but the fact that you are asking this shows a fundamental lack of understanding the basic concepts of something you supposedly learned a year ago.