Melita and Jigano made a good pair, working quickly and easily together as the honeybee girl used her previous adventures experience with mortar and building to swipe just enough on each stacked stone. Jigano worked beside her, moving swiftly to seat each building block before the cold air could freeze the mortar too hard to work with. The stones were of different shapes and sizes, not carefully cut and shaped like the ones of the Atheneum, which made the base of the shrine trickier to build but also more interesting to look at, with skull-like stones kin to the Bone Bridge’s construction grinning out between the more standard blocks brought from the ruins of homes and shops. By the time the others were returning with their final load, the base of the shrine was built solidly and ready for the upper portion.
Kiada andCaiside met with more difficulty, but not so much as to completely derail the construction. If Kiada was willing to steady the rest of their load, Caiside would be able to tow them back – albeit barely, both strength and endurance being tested to their limits by the prolonged hauling and heavier drag of the uneven sledge behind him. Kiada’s dexterity proved more than sufficient to steady the remaining blocks, the warrior girl able to move fast enough to catch them anytime they tried to slide free. Soon enough the pair returned to the nascent shrine, and Jigano grinned at them as he measured what they had brought against the remaining pile they had already delivered. ”I think we have enough now,” he called.
The body of the large stone lantern he had envisioned still needed to be constructed atop the altar Melita had helped him build, but as it only needed four corners and a roof the work would go much faster now. He looked at this three friends and smiled eagerly as he beckoned for them to join him around the fire and warm up for a few minutes. ”I could use some assistance putting the lantern’s body and roof together,” he said, tilting his head to see who would be interested in helping with that. ”But I’d also like to use some of the wood Melita found to make open-slatted ‘windows’ in three sides of the lantern, and I thought we could use the wood from the sled to make the lantern’s ‘door’ so people can open it to put offerings inside. I brought hinges,” that he produces from his bag of tools, ”and woodworking tools, for whoever does the framing and attaching of that. Any preferences for who does what?” He hoped that the individual nature of the tasks would help keep whatever tension existed between Kiada and Melita to a low enough simmer that they could finish the shrine without incident.
Almost there!
- One person to help Jigano build the corners and roof of the stone lantern atop the shrine’s base
- One person to use slender wooden slats to create open ‘windows’ to go in three of the lantern’s sides
- One person to break apart the body of the sled and make a frame+door for the front of the shrine-lantern
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Kiada and
The body of the large stone lantern he had envisioned still needed to be constructed atop the altar Melita had helped him build, but as it only needed four corners and a roof the work would go much faster now. He looked at this three friends and smiled eagerly as he beckoned for them to join him around the fire and warm up for a few minutes. ”I could use some assistance putting the lantern’s body and roof together,” he said, tilting his head to see who would be interested in helping with that. ”But I’d also like to use some of the wood Melita found to make open-slatted ‘windows’ in three sides of the lantern, and I thought we could use the wood from the sled to make the lantern’s ‘door’ so people can open it to put offerings inside. I brought hinges,” that he produces from his bag of tools, ”and woodworking tools, for whoever does the framing and attaching of that. Any preferences for who does what?” He hoped that the individual nature of the tasks would help keep whatever tension existed between Kiada and Melita to a low enough simmer that they could finish the shrine without incident.
Almost there!
- One person to help Jigano build the corners and roof of the stone lantern atop the shrine’s base
- One person to use slender wooden slats to create open ‘windows’ to go in three of the lantern’s sides
- One person to break apart the body of the sled and make a frame+door for the front of the shrine-lantern
