08-12-2009, 05:05 AM
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Hehe, hardly a delay! If so, I'm sorry too  Word Count: 314 Hemming spoke and gestured with his hand to explain, and as he did so Dawali alternated between looking at him, and squinting against the sun to invision it happening on their site. It was a pretty good idea, but Dawali was worried still. And no wonder, if one of those logs he wanted to use as pillars was raised and then fell, it could easily kill one of them, or take down some of the building he'd done so far. He nodded slowly to the words his friend spoke, and took a moment to simply look from the pillars to the site. He would need... at least eight of them standing up. And preferably some more to just make sure, because the roof would probably be a little heavy. He'd never created a roof without simple straw and clay before, but he knew it could be done. The carpenters of the rest of the tribe had constructed something similar to this when they had rebuilt their old town hall. And that was what Dawali wanted to create, but he was no carpenter. Not finding an immediate solution, he voiced his concerns to Hemming. "That sounds like it would work, but I'm still a little worried. What if we raise it up, but it just falls over on the other side? It could be pretty dangerous, no?" Again, he glanced to the building, trying to find a way to solve his problem through merely looking at it. His brain was working hard to get this all together. Dawali was not exactly the kind of person who came up with the ingenious solutions, but he was the kind that - when trained in something - executed this skill in a comfortable yet effective manner. He was good at tasks he already knew, and not so good at solving new problems, at least not of this kind. |