Doc found some tobacco, drying on a shelf. The leaves were large and would have to be ground down, and they had a strange smell, but they'd smoke. He had been in this kitchen before, and he knew where he could fill his flask (long since empty as usual). The booze was bitter and weak, not like whirling whiskey from the mesa, but it would do.
Donnell passed Kahru, who was chopping away at the last giant, while Waythe sang with joy. He found the iron latch for the kitchen doors and latched it. It would not likely hold a determined giant from forcing the door, but it would slow them down.
The stairs down to the cellars, as they knew, were not accessed through the kitchen, but instead topped at a guard room to the south. With Captain Caine's company assaulting the front gates, and them leaving no guards to raise the alarm, it seemed that the Steading was unaware that they had come through the rear.
