The meadow was very much alive with the sound of rhythmic grunting and the heavy, musical thud of massive timber. With Noah finally putting his back into it, the skeleton of the Nursery Palace began to rise from the earth like a living thing.
It wasn't long before Fenric and Damar appeared, too. They didn't even ask for instructions; they just saw the sweat on my brow and the sheer scale of the wood, and they stripped off their tunics to join the labor. Ah, and I mean their tops. They weren't fully naked, ahem, except for Damar, who let out his tail.
I tried to keep my mind on the blueprints, but I was only human… in spirit and heart. Seeing the three of them working together was... distracting.
