Chapter 21 Allies Or Enemies?

• Lux stretched her arms behind her head, her sharp golden eyes scanning the half-built fortifications around them. The sounds of hammering and sawing echoed through the Dark Forest, but the monotony was starting to wear on her.
• "Hey, Viola," she called out gently, nudging a pebble with her boot. "Should we just wait around for the construction to finish? I wanna do something productive, something other than slaughtering monsters and wild animals all day."
• Viola didn’t look up from her book at first, her finger tracing a line of text as if Lux’s complaint was nothing more than background noise. Then, with deliberate slowness, she snapped the book shut and turned her dull brown eyes toward her.