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‘Their teeth?’

‘Beavers chew trees down all the tiht side to that as well’

‘Oh?’

‘If they’ve been chewing on trees all day, their teeth will probably be so sore that they won’t want any dinner after the sun goes down Look at all the money you’ll save if you don’t have to feed them’

There were some violent protests when Padan ordered hisdown trees with their swords, but that caiven them an alternative ‘Report back to Co at turtle shells with your swordsdown trees with the the trees they’d cut down to the church armies below They simply pulled them down the slope and rolled theh waterfall effectively put the trees fairly close to the church soldiers

It took the are, and their first attempt oefully unstable

‘If those a out on the ones they’ve already got in place, the entire thing will tuet killed,’ Sergeant Marpek predicted

‘Oh,’ Sorgan said with mock concern, ‘what a shahed along about then

There were severalthe next few days as the church soldiers kept trying various short cuts to avoid building a bridge in the standard , but the despairing screa toward their deaths on the rocks far below started to get on his nerves after a while

Sorgan dropped back fro deep, twenty-foot-wide trenches and erecting rudimentary barricades on the far sides of each trench to check on the progress of the church soldiers He arrived at the edge of the gorge just as another bridge collapsed, carrying yet another bridge crew plunging to their deaths

‘How an asked Padan

‘I think I’ve lost count,’ Padan replied He looked over at Rabbit ‘Is that the sixth failure or the seventh?’ he asked

‘Iti thee for the down to the upper edge of their ra to lift the upper end here to the brink of the gorge Lowering is always easier than lifting’

‘It ht come to that,’ Padan conceded ‘How are your trenches and barricades coan declared, ‘all except for the final decoration’

‘Decoration?’