Amongst the dust

She loved showing him the catapult diagram, on the page. She'd lived to borrow this copy for a while but she begrudgingly put it back as she saw another book on the shelf a few shelves up and apace away.

"You don't need walls to place a catapult. At full size, it's on wheels and can be pulled or pushed along the ground. Typically they built it on the site of the siege. Usually, the attacking army launches the ammo from the catapult over the walls of the home army. Human armies were a lot larger than packs typically, some armies were as large as thousands of people." She said as she took her paper after replacing the book and moving along to another book called "True Colors, master of Natural Dyes and pigments." and pulled it down. Her ease of multitasking, speaking and browsing came naturally. She could read a book like this in one day if it was all she did for eight hours. The words came easily to her as if they were old friends. Her understanding of every word wasn't always accurate, nor was her pronunciation if she ever tried reading anything aloud. She shook her head and put it back then pulled down another book called "Book of Earth" and quickly turned to the back blurb, then flipped through a few of the pages mid-way then near the end.

"Here we are! This will teach me how to make more pigments! Hopefully, they'll let me borrow this one at least! Shouldn't be too much of a hassle." She replied cheerfully. She was eager to try out some of the pigments detailed, but she wouldn't be able to get much done here during the festival, so she'd have to be satisfied with just reading it all first.


"Speech"