Raising an empire from the ground
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He was absorbed in his task, his guard relaxed this close to the Fort. He hardly had to worry about being attacked in the heart land of Casa. As he drew the circle he marked off every ten foot or so with a line perpendicular to the circle, that would be where the posts would go into the ground. Footsteps whispered across the ground announced the arrival of someone to encroach upon the task he performed in solitude. The dust colored man barely flickered his gaze upwards to catch a glimpse of who it was, the vaugely known Hadley, the same one that the blonde dog Amy had wanted to punish stood just inside his crudly drawn circle wanting to know what it was he was up to,

"Aye ya'llreet there?" He rumbled by way of greeting, at that same moment a prickle of awareness rolled down his spine, the hairs on his neck prickling and standing on end. His expression of concentration morphed into one of tender love as his Juliet strolled up to the pair of them, he nodded his head at her and responded to Hadley's question which Juliet echoed, "Ahh be markin' off whar I'll be ah buildin' tha' new sparrin' ring. Mah Da, Jazper, asked mehself tah make one 'rough aboots 'ere sa as tha othas can practise thar fightin'." He straightened from his hunched posture to his full height with a slight wince, bending over made his back ache after a time, and looked down at the smaller pair, scrutinizing them,

[color=green]"Yarr ah welcome tah 'elp if yah wants."
He knew that his Juliet would accept before he voiced his question to them, excitement and curiosity burned in her eyes, she was driven by her need to understand, to know, it would compel her to help if just to satisfy her interest.


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