Quote:Juliet felt her fingers close round the joint. The pressure sped up Mulch's leg in a series of jolts. The dwarf fought to keep his aim true, in spite of the spasms.
Pressure built in his abdomen and exploded through his bum-flap with a dull thump. The only thing Juliet could relate the experience to was crouching beside a mortar. A missile of compressed air shot across the room, heat blur surrounding it like waves of water.
'Too much top-spin,' groaned Mulch. 'I loaded it.'
The air ball spiralled towards the ceiling, shedding layers like an onion.
'Right,' urged Mulch. 'Right a bit.'
The next unlikely missile impacted against the wall a metre ahead of its target.
Basically, Juliet and Mulch was trying to use the power of fart to hit a camera (it's a fantasy novel, don't think too hard on that). There are two things I don't get here:
1) When the air ball flew towards the ceiling, what was shedding layers? Is it the ball losing some air layer, or the ceiling losing some mortar?
2) At the end, it seems like they fired a 2nd volley. But the way Mulch "urged" it make me think of someone watching a basketball flying towards the hoop and praying it will score. So, did they make a 2nd attempt, or was just watching the first attempt progressing the whole time?