Chapter Four: A Place to Call Home

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"Now that we've found a place to live, we'd better start making a house before nightfall," Coral said. It was a couple days after they met the prophet, and they had finally found a good place to live. It was  a small clearing with a lake nearby, and plenty of trees to make a house with.

"I brought an axe for making planks from the wood, but I can knock them down first," Skyfall offered.

"Sure!" Coral agreed. Soon they had enough trees to get the house done. After Coral made the planks, Skyfall picked them up and placed them in their proper place. They finished the house soon after nightfall, and they quickly found moss to use for the beds.

"Now all we have to do is add in a fireplace and make better beds, and then this place is finished," Skyfall murmured.

"Yeah, and I'm glad we did this, even though I might get homesick one day," Coral answered. Soon after the sun rose in the morning, Coral took some buckets she brought with her to fill some of the containers that Skyfall brought. When she came back, Skyfall had gotten lots of rocks and mud to make the fireplace.

"Morning, Coral," he called.

"Good morning, Skyfall, I got some water for those containers you brought," she answered, showing him the buckets she filled with water.

"We'll fill the containers first and then we'll start making the fireplace so when winter comes we won't freeze to death like snowmen," Skyfall joked, and Coral laughed. Coral brought the buckets over and they carefully poured the water into the containers.

"Alright, done with that, let's start making the fireplace," Coral announced. They worked until lunchtime, where they took a break to make their lunch. "We've gotten a lot of work done on this, haven't we?" Coral asked, looking at their halfway finished fireplace.

"Yeah, and when I breath fire on the mud, just enough so we don't burn the house down, it helps so when we made the mouth of the fireplace, it'll hold the rocks better," Skyfall agreed.  They finished up their lunch and started on the fireplace again.

"I'll go get some logs for the fireplace while you finish the top, Skyfall," Coral called while he was carefully placing rocks on the top where Coral couldn't get to.

"Okay, and I'm almost finished," he called back down. Coral gathered some logs and sticks to start the fire with, along with some dried grass. Skyfall landed on the ground and transformed into his human form, as he had just finished the fireplace.

"Doesn't this place look great?" Coral asked as she placed the logs right next to the fireplace in a stack.

"It does, and all we need to do now is make the frames for our beds and get some animals and seeds so we won't have to search farther and farther for food," Skyfall agreed.

"I can start making pens for the animals," Coral offered.

"Great, and I'll help, once we're done with that I'll go search for animals," he said.

"But first we need to make the bed frames," Coral reminded him, as well as herself. "After we finish those we'll make the pens."

"Okay, I'll go grab some more logs," he said, walking out of the house and going to the forest.

I'm really glad I met Skyfall, Coral thought. He's a great friend, and I hope that someday, we will be able to change the world and all of us can live in peace, so we don't have to hide our friendship.

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