Ran - Unusual Happenings

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Getting up with the sun, checking everything you growl and move on you check places as you find them, seeing the mountain closer you think it should be about a weeks travel away, stopping for the night and setting up camp as you sit to rest the new dog pulls at your clothes.

Frowning slightly but following them with bags and your weapons, as you walk through a small thicket you see a small house and gasp as around the fence was tomato's and cucumbers, rushing forward you check all the vegetables available and grin kissing the new dog as you go in to the garden, looking around you twitch and rush back grabbing the cart and the containers.

Pulling it in to the garden you start to strip the plants of their fruits pulling the smaller ones as you replant, the tomato plants stripped you move to the cucumber taking some plants then the spring onions and herbs having stripped the garden you look to the house, opening the door you see a body in a chair and carefully go over and hang your head in prayer once you saw them.

Going upstairs you raid their closets, then the bedding is taken, done you go back down the kitchen is checked then the pantry, you had managed to get a lot of pots and pans along with the utensils, the pantry was filled with homemade preserves you took them all along with the unopened bottles, cans and boxes.

All placed on the cart you look around to find a celler, finding a door to the side of the kitchen you go in and down checking around you smile, baskets, small barrels, buckets and vacuum packed goods along with more cans and tins, loading it all up then glancing once again you see a storage chest, going over and opening it you smile.

Pulling the chest out and taking it upstairs, all placed in the caravan, you go back and take the cushions with a bow then check the garden more closely, finding an old wooden bath, plant food and empty jars and pots you take everything, as you leave the home you send up a prayer for the owners.

Leaving back to the caravan and checking everything you had found, watering the plants giving them some plant food, next you started to make batches of tomato sauce and jarring them up, the cucumbers are pickled and salted you hope it works, leaving some for tonight's dinner as you cook up some of the rabbit meat as you had quite a bit of it.

As you were cooking the babies were scouting the area, you frown down at plants found, hesitant but going back you grab a few more of each and smile happy, not seeing any lettuce you sigh but a few new varieties either way food done the sauce placed in jars, you whistle as they all come rushing back.

Giving them all loves then feeding them, staring at the mountain and wondering if they got there all right, shaking it off as you clean down and get ready for the night. They had woken up and had some food deciding they would need to find the water source all wearing a knife and Sanzu had his sword.

Finding the old river bed they follow it up coming across different vegetation and animals they smile when the sun hits its highest they find the lake at the top, seeing a few smaller areas off the lake they sigh as a rock was blocking the river down, "we move the rock we have a water source near again" so they get to work removing the rocks that had fallen to block the bed.

Taking a few hours they had done it and the water flowed again, Rindou says "won't the water disappear after a while?" the other three look at him "well, if the mountain moved what is the bottom connected to?" they groan loudly when they stare at the lake and tilt their heads Mikey says "this is a magic mountain? So maybe it has a way for the water to come back here?".

They also watch the lake water stays at the same level even with the water flowing down the river and the small streams, turning to leave Sanzu says "I think we should go and see if we can find some sheds and things for storage? We will spend every winter here at least and will need to store things?" Ran grins and laughs with a nod.

He then says "so we sort out the storage issue for all of us?" Sanzu nods they discussed this as they walk back down to the living area, collecting some plants they knew on the way, back at the shed they looked around then went to plan the storage options, as they will be making a quick trip to look for sheds or others options.

They woke up with a plan in mind the three left the mountain splitting at the bottom to find what was needed the one left sat by his caravan and said "she sent us. We have no ill will towards her. She has helped us so when allowed we will offer protection" the mountain shivered slightly.

Leaving the seat he had found the trailer you left behind so went in to the woods to collect the wood to stock up for winter, they had worked out how many storage places they would need at a minimum, so one for wood, one for food items, shelving also wanted, animal feed and bedding, furs and animal parts, then grain or sacks.

Mikey wandered the woods and smiled at the difference in the plant life to what he was used to and thought back on how you must of been shocked but you still jumped straight in and grabbed what you could to the point you had to ask them what certain things were for or the flavor, he laughed at your bravado.