Zul'jinn held the presentation in the forge district's testing yard because there was nowhere else in the city large enough for the demonstration and because Zul'jinn would not have held it anywhere else regardless.
He had built a mock wall section at the yard's eastern end: twenty feet of stone blocks salvaged from construction surplus, mortared and dressed, sitting at the same height as Yohan's current defensive perimeter. At the opposite end he had mounted his device on a rotating iron platform that was itself bolted to a four-foot stone base sunk eighteen inches into the testing yard's ground.
The device looked, at first examination, like a crossbow that had been rebuilt by someone who found the original design philosophically insufficient.
