Unlike Kro, Leech wasn't nursing a headache. Ditching Kro had saved him a lot of grief, sparing him from Gelan's inevitable complaints.
He rode his horse to the area temporarily designated for the new brickyard.
The brick kiln had already been erected. The masons were highly efficient, which was no surprise given that Leech was throwing money at the project.
The money he'd gotten from selling the horses in Mama City—funds originally from the Fishman crypt—was just enough to solve this pressing problem.
The masons were preparing clay—playing in the mud, basically. As for Leech… he only understood the concept. No one could expect him to actually fire a brick. He could give a rough description of a kiln and the general principles of brick firing, but that absolutely did not include doing it himself.
First, the clay.
There was clay alongside the rivers within Porcupine Territory. Its texture was fine, almost completely free of hard pebbles.
