Tal nodded eagerly, fingers twitching against the neatly folded paper in his hands as if already clutching a pencil. Alas, there were none near at hand and the concerns of the siege weapons soon pushed the design to the back of his thoughts as he put his hands to a much larger ranged option.
A pity they couldn't get the damn basket into position.
Boreal had no idea that her nethers were in danger until a blast of magical wind sent a sudden flurry of feathers into flight beneath her and the dragon let out a rumbled squawk of dismay, wings beating hard to lift her away from the danger zone with wounded dignity and far from the yeeted peryton. Tal couldn't entirely stifle the snicker of amusement at the sight, but when the dragon turned a baleful glare on her companion he suddenly sobered and put his back into pushing with the rest of the soldiers, finally able to settle the basket upon its launching mechanism.
"What're we loadin' them with?" he called to the General eagerly. Wisely, he made no mention of perytons as potential ammunition - though by the mischievous sparkle in his eyes the thought wasn't far from his mind.
A pity they couldn't get the damn basket into position.
Boreal had no idea that her nethers were in danger until a blast of magical wind sent a sudden flurry of feathers into flight beneath her and the dragon let out a rumbled squawk of dismay, wings beating hard to lift her away from the danger zone with wounded dignity and far from the yeeted peryton. Tal couldn't entirely stifle the snicker of amusement at the sight, but when the dragon turned a baleful glare on her companion he suddenly sobered and put his back into pushing with the rest of the soldiers, finally able to settle the basket upon its launching mechanism.
"What're we loadin' them with?" he called to the General eagerly. Wisely, he made no mention of perytons as potential ammunition - though by the mischievous sparkle in his eyes the thought wasn't far from his mind.
