[Outside Kingsfort]
The biggest advantage of frontline lessons is that they allow for immediate practice.
That's why Houdel deeply regrets not paying closer attention when the Mason Commissioner demonstrated how to dig while lying down.
Not just Houdel, there are probably few reserve officers who could have foreseen how intense the task assigned by the Mason Chief Steward would be.
As soon as the lesson ended, the reserve officers were sent straight to the frontline to apply their newly learned skills in practice.
The class Houdel belonged to was brought back to the small fortress they had built three days earlier by Baby Face.
Baby Face handed each person a tool, clapped his hands, and briskly announced, "Start digging."
And any questioning from a few reserve officers with "Do we have to do this ourselves too?" was simply dismissed by Baby Face with "Later, no; now, yes."
