[PQ] let's make this bar a home

how do you wanna face it? when the end is so close you can taste it

Luck is remarkably (and will be, throughout this endeavor) on the gardener’s sides. “Let’s just get ‘em outta the way fer now. Haven’t decided if I want’a save ‘em or not.” The palm trees are pretty new - they’d been torn up’a few years ago by 307’s monsoons, an’ since their roots don’t go deep into the sand, they’re easy to pull out once I shimmy up the trunks an’ loop some rope around their tops. Between the three’a us, we manage to get ‘em all toppled. Don’t get me wrong, it’s hard work, but we’re Torchers, right? Ain’t nothing a soak in the sea an’ a night’a boozin’ can’t fix. “Make sure ye stay hydrated," I say to the boys on my team as I start t’take stock’a the building now.

Zeph ‘an Jack are good at destroyin’ things, an in no time, the rotted wood is out. “Go on an’ put a new floor in,” I call out from where I’ve paused for a breath an’ to guzzle some water. I take a scarf outta a bag somewhere an’ tie it ‘roun my hair afore headin’ to the lumber pile. “We need the longest ones to make the lower parts’a the walls, but I’m gonna leave the top halves able to open n’ close with some locks n’ hinges.”

So, yeah, guess we’re makin’ whole new walls like real carpenters n’ shit. Who knew we had such hidden talents?!

“One’a you make the window hatches - two fer each side. The other help me with the bottom parts ‘a the walls.”
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Again, everything you need should be there. Milo and Theo, choose who’s doing what and get to it.

Zephyr and Jack - carry on, lads. Finish that floor.