Chapter 599: Here Be Dragons
Artemis being around was great. We had enough people trying to cram into our tiny cottage, too many settlers, and literal mountains worth of trees that we decided to move into a bigger plot.
Given how mobile most of us were - excluding Raccoon and Titania, who were a bit on the slower side - we rebuilt our home over the ruin of our old one, finding countless treasures that had been buried and collapsed. The material wasn’t as nice, the place wasn’t nearly as luxurious, and Raccoon was too old and established in her job to make her haul all the water up, but we once again had our home.
Auri’s hall of mirrors had shattered into a million pieces, but she was one to roll with the punches. She picked them up, had us build her a new, huge nest room, coated the walls in sticky tar then carefully, a dozen pieces at a time, rebuilt a mosaic out of the million broken pieces of mirror.
“Brrrp!” She fluffed herself up as she looked in the mirrors, first one side, then the other.
“I’ll admit, I had my doubts, but you were totally right. This effect looks amazing.” I said. It was like a sliver of a hundred thousand little fires flickering through the crack in a wall. “You took something broken, and made it even more beautiful than it was before.”
“Brrrpt!!!” Auri fluttered over to my shoulder and nuzzled my cheek.
“I was thinking, we should install the bath right above, so you can heat it up. It should only leak a little.” I joked, yanking Auri’s chain a bit. She looked so outraged by the suggestion I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Brrpt.” She pouted. I had to agree.
“Artemis is a bad influence on me.”