[yes yes it is and now is a really good time to hope that what Agito said about mud and scent is right, and maybe it might try to eat my robe instead
. . . shifts just a little, though, one hand cupping the back of the other, because it was Link and Edward, Link and Edward and Jace who ran home, and none of them can really ask . . .]
Foreman? Great Builder, of the Level Eye and Steadiest Hand, please, if you're listening, strengthen the pillars and walls of my home.