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@ -26,15 +26,15 @@ They slicked the water off themselves as best they could while walking. Fluffy a
Once there, they parked a few feet before the fire and huddled beneath his woolen cloak, held open toward the flames, and soaked up as much warmth as they could.
"That was fucking cold," Debarre said once he was able to speak without stammering. "You're such an asshole, I can't believe I ever listen to you."
"That was fucking cold," Debarre said once he was able to speak without stammering. "You're such an asshole, I can't believe I ever listen to you. Fine fucking new year's present."
"Yes, well, I love you to," End Waking said, grinning. "Thank you for joining me, and for your help today."
They'd spent the afternoon building up a rammed earth wall for the skunk's new house, pulling earth mixed with deer's blood from the pile they'd brought up from the pond's shore the previous day, stacking it in a frame, and pounding it with logs sanded smooth and cut down to a width they could fit comfortably in their paws.
They'd spent the afternoon building up a rammed earth wall for the skunk's new house, pulling earth from the pile they'd brought up from the pond's shore the previous day, mixed in deer's blood as a binder before stacking it in a frame, and pounding it with logs sanded smooth and cut down to a width that fit comfortably in their paws.
Part of the ramming process had involved carefully setting the chimney pipe for the wood stove between the layers of earth as they built up, something which had seemed an unnecessarily fiddly process, despite the admonitions that, if the pipe crumpled beneath the sand, clay, and blood while they pounded it, the wall wouldn't be sturdy and there might be gaps. As it was, after they built up the rest of the tent, they'd have to seal it with more bloody earth and a layer of pitch.
It had left them both feeling worn out and dirty, and when Debarre said he was going to wash the bloody mud from his paws and fur, End Waking had suggested turning that into the icy plunge.
It had left them both feeling worn out and dirty, and when Debarre said he was going to wash the sticky earth from his paws and fur, End Waking had suggested turning that into the icy plunge.
The skunk then built up the fire higher than usual, told Debarre that they'd need to do so nude as he shed his clothes by the fire, and them pulled him along to the rock overhang.