Over the twenty-one days since Annie’s return, the meeting hall project had progressed minorly. The first-floor walls were two or three courses short of where they needed to be and there were issues with splitting the logs lengthwise for flooring, but they were getting worked out. Declan was having problems with the contractor wanting to get the logs from a closer source. The contractor would spend two days getting the logs to the site and the next day building. The manpower needed was insufficient to the task as everyone on the project had to first cut and limb the trees needed, then spend the better part of a day rolling the logs to the building site.
The contractor spent a lot of time arguing with Declan over crossing the boundaries. He complained that he had to go further downstream t
