nagpurpolice Chapter 1568 Cabin in the Woods
Chapter 1568 Cabin in the Woods
--- Kat --- (Evening Day 11)
Kat spent a lot more time messing around with the wood from the nearby forest getter better and a consistent rate. Kat was a touch worried about how much damage she might be doing to the forest until she noticed a sapling that had already regrown to around knee height in no more than a few days.
It gave her the confidence to just keep working on things and trust the forest could recover without too many issues. Kat had been a touch worried before that.
It was near the end of day five she saw the sapling, and day six saw her tear down a lot of her previous work and get started on everything once again. This time intending to go fancier and design a proper log cabin. She'd worked out a whole bunch of tricks and was ready to get started.
The first thing Kat did was secure the foundation. This mostly involved digging down a bit and stomping the ground flat in layers. Sure there were now a few chunks of missing dirt nearby but once again, Kat trusted the forest to recover. Kat even tested in on the seventh day to see just how much it could take and was surprised to see that the dirt actually seem to regrow as well.
Kat had no idea how THAT worked but it seemed to.
In the end days six, seven, and eight were spent putting together the cabin. Kat had logs for the walls held in place by large poles stuck at regular intervals but hidden from the outside. The door was made up of end pieces all stacked together with more than a few gaps. Kat had glued them all together and thought it looked pretty cool. Lily was... less impressed but she didn't say anything.
Well except to complain about just how heavy the door was!
The roof took the longest of any one section, and Kat actually spent most of day eight just working on that. Kat wanted to do wooden tiles, thinking it would look really fancy and wouldn't be too hard. That was an overly generous estimate. She might have had super speed and super strength but slicing, sanding, and placing hundreds of tiles took up a lot of time even for her.
The cabin wasn't too large. It was really just a lounge room and a bedroom separated by a wall with a gap in it. Kat didn't want to have to deal with making another door, especially because of the hinges or lack thereof. The way Kat set up the front door wasn't by making hinges but by adding rails and allowing it to slide upwards into the ceiling.
Probably part of the reason Lily thought it was so heavy.
"I mean... I expect we'd have heard something from them if there was a problem but I wasn't expecting it to take this long. As evidenced by the fact I completely rebuilt the hut into this cabin. I thought they'd be back before the end of the week..."
"But you started this on like... day six didn't you?" asked Lily.
Kat nodded, "Yeah but that was basically a week wasn't it? I really did think they'd be back before then. Which I guess was a bit silly... but we're closing in on two weeks now. I was expecting at least a 'we got the thing!' message you know? It implies they haven't found anything yet and it makes me wonder if it was really the correct choice to stay and guard this one,"
"Well Meg did say it was a pain to re-list a rock once you've filtered it out so we'd need to have destroyed it to go along with them and that was the whole issue. We couldn't easily destroy it without breaking a whole heap of other stuff," said Lily.
"I know, but it just feels like a bit of an excuse now. Don't get me wrong, I understand why. If we have two pieces we can just slam them together until one of them cracks and then hopefully break the other afterwards. Just... feels a bit hopeful doesn't it?" asked Kat.
"I think part of the hope was that if Meg can take a look at another piece she can tell how many need breaking. Perhaps we can just leave this one inside its rock and it will be fine," offered Lily.
"Huh... ok yeah I suppose that makes more sense. If we can't easily get into this one but we can get into the other ones it means Meg can hopefully break all of the ones necessary... but it would be an issue if this one went walk-abouts. Do you think they've run into any issues? I mean... the forest wasn't too hard to navigate before..." said Kat.
"I don't think so. I mean, if they were having any sort of issues wouldn't they have sent us a message about it? Perhaps something your regeneration would help with? I doubt they'd go to any significant lengths to avoid calling for us you know," answered Lily.
Kat nodded a few times, "Yeah that makes sense. I can't see Meg pushing forward when she didn't have to. It would give her an excuse to spend more time with Hunter so I suppose I could see her forcing everyone to turn back at the first sign of hardship... though I wonder if they're still in the forest? I mean it's been eleven days.
I feel like if I was flying I could probably cross the forest in eleven days,"
"Yes but then you'd be skipping all the bubbles. I'm sure they cause a few delays. Or maybe not? I was never exactly clear how the bubbles work or where they spit you at. Like is it one to one or are the bubbles 'smaller' on this side of things?" pondered Lily.
Kat shrugged, "I dunno but seeing as they haven't returned I'm going to guess it's taking them a while to walk through them all," Explore more at empire