and then , his gleeful furor renewed by seeing gallan nod at him encouragingly while a rare smile broke on his pallid face , yonfi begun to fill up the pit an even easier thing , for all he had to do was push at the seemingly weightless piles of dirt his excavation had produced ; and as soon as this was achieved , he was joined by gallan and raddia , and they all stomped on the earth till it was smooth and even .