"Too big," Neve muttered, pulling the measuring tape tighter. "Or is it too small? How do people deal with these things?"
The cave was quiet. Cael had left before dawn with the other beastmen, the sound of them moving through the village waking Neve up briefly before he turned over and went back to sleep for another hour.
Winter was coming in two days, so everyone was moving and getting busy.
He had the sewing kit spread across the mat in front of him, and the two pieces of linen laid flat and was trying to remember everything he had ever passively absorbed about sewing, which was not very much. He had watched exactly one video about it once while procrastinating on an assignment. He retained approximately forty per cent of it.
"Okay," he said to himself. "I'm just going to cut simple shapes, nothing complicated. I am not making a suit. I am making rectangles that wrap around a body."
He started with Cael.
