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As the group finishes eating breakfast one day, Bruno motions to some wooden frames and short half-logs off to one side. The Blank Men stand ready nearby.
"I'm going to take some of them today to that place I told you about, near the river, with the good soil - if, ah... any of you up for helping with the adobe? I can show you how to mix it and shape it; and once the sun's dried them enough, how to fire the bricks and roof tiles."
He side-eyes the Blank Men as he continues. "...I think they're up to the task themselves... but they won't work unless at least one of us is working alongside them. And there's several steps: gathering the soil and water, and some dry grass; mixing the adobe; shaping the adobe with the frames..." (he counts these off on his fingers, fidgeting as he talks) "...it'll go faster the more of that we can have happening simultaneously. ...And, um. I'll be honest: I'm not sure I trust them to get the mix consistency right. The bricks won't hold up if the mix is too far off."
"I'm going to take some of them today to that place I told you about, near the river, with the good soil - if, ah... any of you up for helping with the adobe? I can show you how to mix it and shape it; and once the sun's dried them enough, how to fire the bricks and roof tiles."
He side-eyes the Blank Men as he continues. "...I think they're up to the task themselves... but they won't work unless at least one of us is working alongside them. And there's several steps: gathering the soil and water, and some dry grass; mixing the adobe; shaping the adobe with the frames..." (he counts these off on his fingers, fidgeting as he talks) "...it'll go faster the more of that we can have happening simultaneously. ...And, um. I'll be honest: I'm not sure I trust them to get the mix consistency right. The bricks won't hold up if the mix is too far off."