Jack sets a random assortment of items on the chart as weights -- a sextant, a mapmaker's compass, a large shell, a bottle of rum-- and then beckons Kaylee to a window that's got latticework in place. It's new, to judge from the color of the wood.
"Come here, lass. Look."
He points to the way the lattice has been made, with small slots to hold what would normally be leaded glass, and what might have been thought scraps lying by to nail in place as braces for a frame.
"You put a square in each, see? That way if the one gets broken, then it's only the one what needs fixing after, and not the whole. Hard to pull the entire thing down and take it apart, and harder still to fix from the outside, aye?"
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Date: 2006-09-24 08:30 am (UTC)"Come here, lass. Look."
He points to the way the lattice has been made, with small slots to hold what would normally be leaded glass, and what might have been thought scraps lying by to nail in place as braces for a frame.
"You put a square in each, see? That way if the one gets broken, then it's only the one what needs fixing after, and not the whole. Hard to pull the entire thing down and take it apart, and harder still to fix from the outside, aye?"