“She certainly didn’t take any guff off of them,” another observed.“What was the ward that the two Dragons were behind? It seemed to come into...existence rather suddenly, after those three penetrated her outer wards,” a third Wizard wanted to know.“Yes, those three seemed to go through her outer wards as easily as they went through ours. The ward that appeared, once they were inside the first ones, stopped them cold. We could use something like that. It seems that all of those Dragon people can. Annabel had got off the sun lounger and taken the chair I had been seated in. I thought about sitting on her knee but just refrained. It was a sign that the combination of drinks and nudity were getting me in a strange mood. Then horror struck, Sue was leaning down talking to Claire! There was an empty chair next to them so I went straight to it.I just caught the last sentence and Claire said, “No problems Sue, just use the downstairs room.” She switched to me. “That was quick, you must. An alternative method of providing support is needed. The Royal Guards are stretched thin because the Fourth and Fifth Claymore are already deployed to Shumeer in defence of the Embassy and the large refugee camp there. The Peregrines are fully deployed supporting them and patrolling the borders, so are most of the other Claymore troops. My advisers have found a way for us to help, and we need your help to do it.”He stops to take a sip of water. Looking up at the camera he says, “I don’t have. Once there were sawmills, they used lumber, of course. Without sawmills, they built with logs, but I don’t have anyone to help me lift logs into place. Could I build a wall out of logs, anyway? The logs would have to be roughly fifteen feet long to span the whole thing from wall to wall. Oh, that rock plugs most of the entrance, but there’s no way to attach logs to the rock, so I think I need to build the wall all the way across, even behind the rock.“Hmmm, I wonder how big the logs really need.