The engineers rushed inside the moment that Dominic mentioned them, already unrolling blueprints.
"Your Grace, we've got plans, and if we rush, we can get the base structures up before the airships land. Our apologies for interrupting a meeting between Advisors."
"No worries. Your work is time-sensitive. What do you have for me?"
"We have room for a secondary courtyard ring outside the existing one. It will cramp the gardens, and bring the housing nearly to the pastures, but if we limit the exterior space and make them four stories tall instead of two, with tile roofs, we can get them up in under an hour a piece.
There won't be anything in them, not even a fireplace insert, but we can call for some to be shipped over.
