Salvation by James Wymore

Author:James Wymore
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Sword & Sorcery, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Fantasy, Epic, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2014-05-14T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Once a large, bellows-style pump was constructed, Bowen began sewing together long tubes of leather, to create hoses they could use to direct the spring water up over the ridge. After several failures, he gave up and began looking for new materials.

Macey couldn't get the goats to fight each other, charge the Hyzoi dummy, or even charge another person. She eventually surrendered. However, Vince began to see some luck getting the goats to charge the dummy when he doused it with goat urine. So they built another dummy and he took over training the goats. He said it only worked when somebody helped him concentrate the magic, so Aunt Lanny agreed to assist him. Her wrinkled forehead stretched high when they finally found something she could do.

Having cleared much of the spring meadow of snow, several men climbed into the rocks above. Tethered together, they hammered spikes in to break free large chunks of rock and send them rolling to meadow. Elwood carefully directed which rocks should be cut in order to make the cliff steeper in the north section, where they planned to build the wall.

"Heads up!" one man yelled. He waited three seconds before dropping a large metal pole deep into the fissure and pounding. He worked on several such poles in this break, slowly hammering them down. Thunder rumbled from inside. He made one more hit. Then the rock and all the poles broke free and crashed to the meadow below. As the ground beneath him came loose, the man dangled from a rope, tied to a higher tree and held tight by his partner.

Huge teams of goats and concentrations of magic managed to get the rocks rolled and dragged along the base of the wall. Building the platform above these rocks and using the tallest tree trunks, Elwood hoped to get a fifteen-foot high wall. With the rocks in place, they all started transporting stripped logs from the rise above their home base out to the spring meadow, using skis they fastened beneath each bundle and tasking more mountain goats to drag them.

"This is all quite incredible," Jewel said as she watched several men drive a tall log into the frozen earth with great hammers.

"It will all be for nothing if Bowen can't get that pump working," Elwood said.

"I thought the pump worked." She tipped her head as she turned to look at her husband.

"The pump works. We just can't get the hoses to hold water. The oiled leather keeps leaking at the seams."

Jewel smiled as her breath made a trail of fog. "I think Macey's figured that one out. She told me last night when Bowen told her the problem she knew just the answer. Intestines. Goat intestines. They are smaller than he originally thought of, but they hold water pretty well. He said he's going to try some out today."

"Interesting. He'll probably have to hook several rows together," Elwood said.

"Or build several smaller pumps."

"That reminds me. Now that the wall base is in place, I need to send those rock cutters up to try and bring the saddle down on the ridge.

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