After a troubling pause, Max offered to show her the ways of the hammer. She stepped closer to him in order to better see the blunt tool and the sharp nail, and observed silently as he maneuvered the latter between his fingers, angling it as if against the wood and tapping it with the hammer. It seemed a little more complicated than shoving sticks into the ground with blows from a rock, but the concept was the same, and she made a sound of acknowledgement to show she understood.
The Centurion took the rusty objects and stepped out of the way of the pillars, watching Asher move into position and grab the hefty thing. Muscles she didn’t know had existed on the collie mix bulged as he heaved upward with Max, the two of them hoisting it up and over to the porch. The tricolor coydog moved out of the way again, his tail wagging, only occasionally coming to push at the log if it seemed that Max needed help getting it perfectly set in its new place. At one point he seemed about ready to pluck some wood from the other’s white fur, but he showed restraint.
And then it was her turn, and she kept her expression carefully controlled as he gestured at all the places to be hammered. Carefully dropping most of the nails onto the porch besides the work area, she grabbed one between her fingers like the Rorarii had shown her and positioned it. The first was at too small an angle, and she ended up bending the nail before exasperatedly grabbing the next one; this went in, not so prettily, but deep enough that she thought the job was finished. Operating the tool awkwardly with her luperci hands, she managed to hammer the other nails into their spots in the wood and only almost struck herself twice.
“All right,” Vesper breathed, and looked at the panting Asher. He seemed so nonchalant about the whole ordeal, happy to work, so much like a dog that she forgot her misgivings about her part for a moment. “We’ll do the others just the same, yes?” she asked, straightening and collecting the remaining nails again, careful not to close her hand around them too tight.
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