Incendiary weapons relied upon three deepest physical pillars. Sky oxygen, combustible fuel, and sustained heat energy.
If an engineer cut any one of those three pillars, burning ceased right away.
If an engineer cut all three at the same time, the hottest enchanted siege flame suffocated into cold black melted rock waste within six seconds.
Lord Giles Croft knelt upon the central runway overhead frame of Wharf One, inspecting an inline bronze proportioning eductor.
The brass fittings gleamed under the pale mountain morning.
Around him, sixty high-pressure fire hydrants stood connected to the high-sky drain tube aqueduct.
Each hydrant was tapped directly into the four-hundred-pound static head of mountain spring water surging from Grey Crag’s upper pool.
Beside each bronze valve stood a fifty-gallon glass-fused carboy of dark, thick, sticky foaming concentrate.
