Drakk received the news about the raid from Tharuk's runner and spent two hours making himself calm before he went to find Brekk.
The two hours were not wasted. He used them to walk the build site's perimeter, which Tharuk had reinforced with a timber palisade along the exposed western approach in the six hours following the patrol's withdrawal. He walked the rebuilt intake framework, which Tharuk's crew had begun that same afternoon using stone from the nearest cliff face and timber from the windbreak's surplus stock. He looked at the injured worker with the broken arm, who was in the healer's tent with the arm set and splinted and eating more than he usually ate because the healer had said that bone knitting required excess food and the worker had taken this instruction very seriously.
