"We'll definitely work our way up," Amaya assured her, as she took a moment judge the different weights of two pumpkins of relatively similar size and shape, one in each of her hands, shifting them like she herself was a scale until finally deciding to go with the one in her left hand. She set the other one down, and went to go nestle the winner in in the sling.

"Now," she offered, although, really, she suspected after working on it from pretty much the ground up, Irene could see exactly what the mechanics behind the process were, "as soon as we're set, we'll pull the stopper keeping the counterweight up, gravity will do its thing, pumpkin goes flying, and we'll hope any sea creatures out there at the moment have enough sense to keep out of the way."

Though if they did hit something out there, was it bad that she'd hope it was just a coincidental Sidon rather than this fabled kraken?

Although that would make for an exciting conclusion to this particular little project, that was for sure.