Droktagar's construction crews began the water system's expansion on the morning after the building council with the energy that the morning's assignment produced in crews whose previous assignments had been the assignments that the military's construction requirements demanded and whose current assignment was the assignment that the civilian purpose's construction requirements initiated. The morning was the morning that followed a night whose sleep had been shortened by anticipation: workers who had lain on their pallets knowing that the dawn would bring work whose purpose made it different from any work the previous dawns had brought.
