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Gaius sucked on his cheek, looking over the area with a critical eye. "I still say some place closer to the wall would be best, so it's viewable, but not getting in the way of foot traffic..." He looked to Richard for his thoughts. The poor guy was looking pretty badly today. Gaius had determined that once this project was done, he'd see Richard took a break to lie down. Last thing either of them needed was the guy having heart failure!

Rubbing his dirty hand off on his equally grimey pants and not getting either of them much cleaner, Gaius picked up one of the shovels and tapped it against his shoe. "Maybe near one of the doors, you think?"

"Hm, kinda like one of those sign boards you see along the side of hiking trails and stuff? Sure, I think that'd work!"

Gaius stepped forward to where Richard indicated and made a mark with his shovel for one of the posts, then pulled out a measuring tape. Crouching, Gaius measured off the space between where the two beams would stick into the ground, and made another mark for the second one. Once that was done, he looked again at Richard to make sure it was good for him, since the older man was more the manager in this situation. Once he got the go-ahead, Gaius started digging away at one of the points, sticking his spade into the ground and crunching it down with a foot before hauling out the clumps of dirt, which he just dropped to the side.

Gaius scowled, but quickly broke again into a smile and shook his head. "Ah well, we can move it over a bit, rather than fighting with whatever's there. Just hope it's not some foundation we happened on." The horse-man brushed a hand over his brow, smearing it with a line of dirt as he pushed dampened bangs out of his eyes. "See if you can find the edge and dig there..."

His own pit was coming along decently. It was difficult, since the earth around the village was pretty well packed, but the recent rain storms had loosened it up enough that he could manage with a bit of effort. Gaius turned back to finishing off his own, then he'd help Richard.

Gaius jumped at the loud thud and spun around, hair standing on end. "What was that?!" Seeing Richard pulling himself up off the ground, he frowned slightly and set aside his shovel to go and extend a hand to the guy. A joking grin played across his flattened face as he worked to help Richard up. "Don't tell me that crash was you falling over!"

Tommy looks up from the credits rolling across the screen of the entertainment room's television. He'd been spending way too much time there as of late...just watching movie after movie...an old passion of his. A loud thunk against the window broke him out of his movie-induced hypnosis and he looks around.

"The hell was that?" he asks no one before groaning with the effort to stand. He clutches a waterbottle filled with a muddy red colored liquid in a deformed hand before making his way to the door and opening it. He blinks against the bright sun, feeling rather sluggish...damn those nocturnal tendencies. As his vision adjusted to the sunlight, he was able to make out two figures he's met before...one still unchanged and the other...oh God...Gaius...so soon? He slowly makes his way toward them, repeating his question which was at first intended for the air:

"The hell was that?" he asks amiably with a grin, nodding toward the entertainment room.

Richard was about to protest. He had more than enough left in him to see this through, no matter how tired he was.

Fortunately for Gaius and for Richard, Tommy's appearance provided a graceful way out of the situation. Richard turned when he heard the familar voice. "Hey there Tommy." Richard gave a little wave. "Gaius and I are just doing a little community improvement. Mind the dust and all that."

Richard coughed voliently a few times and thumped his chest a few times. His eye fell to the nearby water cooler. He turned to Gaius, "I'll just take a quick drink and then I'll finish off the hole."

Gais looked up from his digging at the voice and froze with his foot still on the shovel. He stared. The long fingers, the strange nose, the fangs... Somewhere in his mind, he made the connection, and was disturbed by it.

"T-Tommy...?" he ventured. "Is that you?" He fought to hide the worry in his face, but he was fighting a losing battle. There was no way to get around it, the changes had not treated Tommy kindly, no matter how he looked at the guy. Still, he put on a friendly, if nervous, smile, and nodded to him. "Hey..." He scratched at the back of his neck and shrugged. "Sorry I haven't stopped by in a while..."

At Tommy's change in attention, Gaius looked over as well and frowned concernedly. "Hey, take a break already! You've been working in the sun all morning, you're probably dehydrated! Don't worry about this hole, I'll finish it up!"