Frostbound

Chris

It was nice to get back into things and into the groove of what I had left. I hadn't realized that so much of my day was filled with carving formations, directing the Castle construction, or managing something else inside the City.

All of the responsibilities slowly added up and it took dropping everything to go fight Demons to notice all of what I was doing.

Another part that alerted me to how much I was involved with things was Abigail's recap of everything that happened while we were gone. She had a lot of issues crop up in the beginning that I usually handled by myself.

My high strength was used as a shortcut for a lot of things that they had to work around without me there. It wasn't much, as I had already been letting go of how much I was involved, but my absence was still noticeable.

Another change was I wasn't there to reinforce the stone as best I could. I wasn't sure if anyone else could notice the difference, but I definitely could.

The stones placed before and after I left were different.

Something about them didn't portray the impenetrable fortress I had envisioned and it irked me. Fixing that wore my spirit out but that was what it was there for. If it wasn't meant to be used, then I didn't know what it was there for.

While they had noticed changes in my absence, I was nearly flabbergasted when I returned. Abigail had mentioned that the crews were ahead of schedule but I hadn't expected just how ahead they were.

She mentioned that the ones who remained worked themselves more than ever to make up for the people who had left to fight. Some departments even output more than when their entire workforce was there. As outlandish as that sounded.

It brought a smile to my face.

To know that not only the ones who risked their life but also the ones who stayed behind cared about what I- we were building filled me with joy.