tagmeth @ 2009-07-03T09:36:00

Thanks for all the answers. You can see why I was confused. The trunks have it six to five with Simon casting the deciding vote. The situation in the story is that Chingetai has cut a big tree to burn to hasten the coming of spring. It's sliding downhill straight toward the village like a battering ram. I was going to say that he had messed up (again) and cut it on the wrong side so that it's coming down much too fast. Ponies are roped to it, trying to brake it, but they haven't enough ...