Chapter 28: Building the wall Part 6
Aric felt a sense of happiness when he heard her say she was more jealous than angry. It meant she actually felt a connection with him. Sure, they were moving at a very fast pace, but he liked it, and she seemed fine with it.
"Alright, Ariel, let's have a deal. Whenever I do something with any other lady, you have the right to do it to me as well, so you don't feel jealous anymore," Aric said.
"Huh? That's a really blatant bribe, but I'll take it. I'll hold you to that," Ariel said.
"Good, then that's it. Now, please come and eat. You've been working for quite a bit," Aric said. They headed back to camp, where the goblins had all eaten and were laying down, relaxing.
"Seems you fed them quite a bit," Ariel said.
"Well, they have worked a lot, so they do deserve to rest and enjoy," Aric said. He would have never been able to move this fast without their help.
Now, all that was left was for him to fill up the ground while nailing the tree-step horizontal planks into the wall.
He served up a plate of food for Ariel and immediately headed to work. He started sawing up smaller beams that he would be using.
And in a few minutes, he managed to make a good stack of them already, all twenty meters long.
"Alright, goblins, let's go. There's more work for us to do. We have to finish this wall today," he said, and all the goblins happily rose to their feet. They started picking up the planks and heading to the end side of the wall.
Aric took a box filled with all the tools that he would need for this—the nails, the hammer, the glue—and he followed the goblins to the edge of the wall, where the two walls met.
When he got there, the goblins dropped the planks on the ground, waiting for their next instruction.