It was an impossible ask. Whilst she was right that the pine wood would burn a good bit faster due to the resin in it being so flammable, these were pine forests. There were next to no other trees besides them.
"That's not happening," Beam told her. "I'll just get more wood to compensate."
"Oh?" Nila said, putting a hand to her cheek, imitating a maidenly gesture that suited her far too well. Now that her hair was combed and behind her head, she looked even prettier than she had this morning. But it did nothing to cure her personality. "Well, since you clearly can't do your job properly, why don't you go running over there and pretend to cut wood? Your stench is scaring all the animals away."
She fired back the same dig that he'd gotten in earlier, and Beam let out another sigh as he shook his head. He'd resolved not to bicker with her too strongly. If it was in her nature to be so prickly, then let her be, or so he thought.
But… He couldn't hold himself back entirely.
