"You made a grate."
Fori looked up to see me coming into the room. I smiled.
"Yeah... Not really useful, is it?" She said, slipping a bit lower into her mug of strawberry wine.
"No, no, It can be used for a lot of things! We could place it in the cavern and let the Marksmen fire through it, We could put it over one of the magma access holes so various magma creatures can't crawl through it, we could pump water through it so beasts couldn't move into a well. There's a lot of use for a grate."
"I suppose."
A brief silence passed.
"Listen, I'm sorry about the-"
I help up a hand, halting the elf in her tracks.
"Don't be. By sharing the vision with me, I was able to pinpoint the location of Ongas, or Engas, and ready the military. It could have barged into the temple or some such while we were milling in confusion otherwise. Yes the vision was painful, as much as being eaten semi-alive can be, but we're still here aren't we? No lasting damage was done. And we got a neat grate and piles of meat out of it too."
She nodded. I cracked a smile.
"So, why don't we go and get some of the rum, eh? You need better booze than that to drown your sorrows in."
She protested as I pulled her by the arm, "But I can't handle the rum very well!"
"All the more to be wantin' to drink it, eh? C'mon, high priest will be wanting to see you in the morning. What better time to get smashed off our gourds?"
We were found about three hours later. I was dancing on a table and she was talking up a bucket with a barrel on her head.