Chapter 82
Working the first few rocks loose wasn't easy. They'd been shaped to fit with their neighbors so tightly a knife wouldn't fit between them in most places. One of them though--down at the bottom of the wall--had been loosened by Zeb to drill a hole through one rock for the overflow from the water reservoir to drain outside. Zeb had used some adobe to fill tiny c****s where the stone had been knocked loose. Dried adobe wasn't as hard as rock by several orders of magnitude and Miles was able to dig out the mud and straw mixture with his hunting knife in a few minutes. He used his axe to hammer on the stone part of the wall. It wasn't difficult to break loose the first stone from the wall and creating a small opening. From there, it was a matter of expanding the gap rock by rock until he had
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