Things like these were the reason building dams took years of work… Even beavers, who could build dams seemingly overnight, were only this effective on relatively small streams.
The rivers we had to deal with were anything but.
No kind of technology besides something truly science fictional or magically miraculous would be able to help us there. At this point, anyone reasonable would've started to think that this was a fool's errand to begin with.
Anyone except my Advisers!
As I thought, they talked over the table, trying to come up with an idea to resolve this situation. One idea was more outlandish than the next one, but none of them even thought about giving up.
They believed that as long as they had my approval, anything was possible. They believed in me too much for their own good, and thought about me as infallible…
So I had no right to fall.
