The second time he faced the trial, he understood from the beginning that this would test his endurance and the endurance of the people in the village. He started immediately by looking for ways to preserve the crops without using witchcraft.
The people of the Heartwood clan were skilled at woodworking, so the first thing he asked them to build was screens made of wooden slats that would shade the crops in their fields and gardens. They were something that he'd come up with half way through the first trial, when he was looking for ways to make use of the wood they'd salvaged from the fallen cypress trees, but it had been too late by the time they'd gotten them into place to make much of a difference in the end.
