Dominic repeated the process in the afternoon, finishing the day with his usual quota of twenty completed rifles.
That brought him back to the house just after the Princes had finished with their daily meetings, and from the looks on their faces, the answers weren't ones that Dominic was going to want to hear.
"Anything that I should know before I start eating?" He asked curiously.
"You've got both blood and what looks like gear oil under your fingernails." Prince Fahad joked.
"Soot from the forge, too." Dominic agreed.
The other two men smiled while the less serious pair joked about current events, but Prince Claudius wasn't going to wait while they got distracted.
"We got an official communication from the King earlier today. Wistover is not the only region that has seen a proliferation of monsters recently.
The majority of Dagos is under siege, the same way that Cygnia City was at the start of the war, and King Gustav has requested assistance from his allies.
