[PQ] one stone at a time

WESSEX

Once again, the young duo work very well together; Cameron and Nikolai seem to strike a rhythm and have a technique down for building these walls, and they’re able to do what the General cannot. They catch up with Azrael, and between the four of them and their night time speediness, they’re able to build the walls high, sturdy, and even.

Wessex, on the other hand… rolled a three after a two is not having the best night. She is easily able to carry the stabilizing pillars in through the door (she even manages to not knock any of the new walls out!) but the beams themselves simply do not want to stay put. Or perhaps the demigoddess doesn’t know her own strength, as each slight adjustment seems to send the beams wobbling. There are two around the front door and two at the back wall, meant to support what will be a middle beam running the length of the building.

Eventually the poles settle and they’re able to move on to the next step: the roof.

There are large, hammered sheets of metal that Ed’s assistants start to haul toward the building. But first - they’ll need some support. Gesturing a pile of shorter beams, Wessex begins to explain the next step. “Okay, can two of you please join me on ladders on the center line? I’m going to get this big beam in place. And then we’ll need to place these thinner slats at even intervals along the middle support. Then the metal sheets on top of that. Make sense?”  

Hopefully it does, because Wessex waits only for two of them to scramble atop ladders before she begins to lift the central support.

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Ok, two of you atop ladders to help guide the central support in, one to start bringing in the smaller supports, and then Wessex will teleport up there with the metal sheets.

No, I’ll be the stone
I’ll be the hunter, a tower that casts the shade
I lie awake and watch it all