Chapter 60: Injured Princess
Dominic smiled at the driver and moved to the second vehicle to see if there was anything that he had missed the first time through.
The controls all worked, the valves were good, and the pressure tank under the hood was holding pressure. The body was destroyed, the roof was torn away, and a chunk of the floor was bent down by half a metre, but once the pushrod was replaced, it would be able to move again.
The old pushrod had also been melted into slag by a fire spell, and had melted completely in half, which caused some concern for the rest of the undercarriage, but the flames seemed to have been contained.
"It was a flaming maul." The driver explained.
"That makes sense. Your lot had it rough up here. I only had to deal with a couple or ten dozen Hobgoblins and some ogres in the middle of the row." Dominic agreed.
"We didn’t do half bad, but it’s not all good news. We will be burying three officers and seven guardsmen. All things considered, it could have been much worse. Hell, even the Princess had a close call today."
"Can you get someone to cut me a log two metres long? That will be easier than making a new metal pushrod." Dominic asked, changing the topic.
"Yeah, that will work. I’ll have someone go right away. Do we have the metal to fix it right if we need to?" He asked.
"Yeah, I can make a new rod, but it’ll take a couple of hours to get it rolled into shape. If the old one was just bent or broken, it would be no problem to fix it, but I can’t bend a puddle back straight." Dominic laughed.