First of all, ehhhhh

i needed a mood boost so here is part five

The four immortals stand a little ways off from the rest of the soldiers, looking up at the town walls. Having infinite attempts has not, in fact, done a whole lot to keep the defenders from dislodging them from the walls. Andy's gotten the farthest, even cresting the wall once, and it still only took them a few minutes to knock her off the battlements. They need a new plan. Nicky's in favor of doing another lap around the base of the wall looking for weaknesses, but the women are impatient.

Quynh is swearing at Nicky about romamtic strolls and he's about to interrupt her when his husband urgently but subtly catches his eye. The clanking and creaking he'd been ignoring turns out to be a giant mechanism on wheels. He tries to get a better look without letting on that he's looking past Quynh instead of at her. It's... a catapult? Oh, Jesus Mary and Joseph, it's a catapult.

"Can we discuss this back in the tent?" Joe interrupts. "I'm starved and I want to sleep before taking another go at those blasted walls."

"Actually, yeah," Nicky backs him up. "I want to drink until I forget landing on that rock." Everyone winces at that. Spine breaks, on top of the sheer blinding pain, involve a lot of incomprehensible tingling and throbbing and spasming.

They're too late. The commotion has caught Andy's attention and Quynh turns with her. Nicky knows (or, well, he does now) that the four of them aren't anything unholy but the way their eyes light up when they see the throwing arm makes him question it. Both women turn back around grinning.

"Aw, boss," he whines, sounding closer to three years old than three centuries.

"Do we have to?" Joe adds.

"Well, you don't have to," Andy says, not even trying to look less enthusiastic. "I'm not going to force you." It's not an empty gesture, but it is a pointless one. They're all aware of their willingness to follow Andy into the depths of hell.

"Tent first," Quynh says after a moment, still grinning wildly. "I like this sword, but I don't want to land on it."