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This was a bad idea this was a bad idea this was a bad idea.
Holly runs as fast as she can but the demon's faster. She has no idea where Lightning's gotten to; maybe he found a tree to climb. She on the other hand has been diverted into a treeless hill and she's careening down a slope, trying very hard not to trip.
And the demon's gaining on her.
She's never seen anything like it and neither has Crystal; maybe Book knows what it is but Book's asleep. It's mostly mouth - it looks like a cross between a floorlength mirror of a mouth and a snake to propel the mouth along.
And Holly's not fast enough.
The mouth catches her.
But it doesn't hurt.
Where are we?
inourhead
"When you have enough wood, create a Workbench. This will allow you to create more complicated things, as long as you are standing close to it."
"I'm your guide. In order for a room to be considered a home, it needs to have a door, chair, table, and a light source. Make sure the house has walls as well."
inourhead
"...Do you want me to build you a house. Is this your extremely stupid way of asking me to build you a house."
"Two people will not live in the same home. Also, if their home is destroyed, they will look for a new place to live."
inourhead
"Housedweller. Idiot housedweller. Why are you wandering around in the forest if you're such a housedweller?"
inourhead
"You're a loony. Who's supposed to be looking after you? Look, will you fall asleep soon so we can talk to your cohabitor?"
inourhead
"Good luck with that. Ugh, something's going to eat you if we just wander off, won't it. I don't think I can build you an entire shelter before you're going to sleep, though."
inourhead
"You should be kept on, like, a leash. I'm telling your cohabitor to put a leash on before he falls asleep in the future," says Holly, and she picks up the axe and takes a swing at a tree.
Chop, chop, chop -
That is not what a tree does when it is cut down. It does not disintegrate into cubes that rain down around her. Except this one is. There is a shower of tiny wooden cubes, some of them bumping into each other and disappearing before they hit the ground.
There isn't even a stump. Just tiny scattered cubes, and grass that looks like a tree wasn't even there in the first place.
That is not what a tree does when it is cut down. It does not disintegrate into cubes that rain down around her. Except this one is. There is a shower of tiny wooden cubes, some of them bumping into each other and disappearing before they hit the ground.
There isn't even a stump. Just tiny scattered cubes, and grass that looks like a tree wasn't even there in the first place.
inourhead
What.
Do I think like I know???
But - but WHAT?
We're still in the demon this is a demon belly oh sunswallowing pit -
We are both still in our head and we can breathe and there's rabbits, okay, the - the guy had his soul partly eaten but we're still fine -
For now!
Holly stares at the cubes.
"What," she says aloud, in the unlikely event that the partially-eaten soul can help her.
"You can build a shelter by placing wood or other blocks in the world," says the assumed partially-eaten soul.
The cubes, upon coming in contact with each other, get pulled together and become a single object. There is a something, polite and present in Holly and Crystal's mind informing them that they can place eight blocks of wood within a certain radius. You just have to pick where the blocks go, and then you can put them there. As long as it's in the radius, of course.
inourhead
Holly separates out one block, and then touches a standing tree and tries to put cubeness into the tree.
The tree turns into cubes. The cube in her hand... Is an ordinary cube of wood. No 'you may place a block of wood' feeling. Just - tiny cube of wood. In some sense, it's wasted now.
It's sort of hard to hit it, it's barely an inch in length, but with careful aim...
Yep. Cube, one of the magic ones.
Yep. Cube, one of the magic ones.
inourhead
Okay. So the axe can cube-ify trees. And so can she, although then she has to re-cubeify the wood if she wants it to be cubed again.
Holly goes around cubing trees until she thinks she has enough to make a couple of houses, because while two people might live in one, three would mean rooming with Mr. Mangled Soul Jeff, and that is not happening.
Holly goes around cubing trees until she thinks she has enough to make a couple of houses, because while two people might live in one, three would mean rooming with Mr. Mangled Soul Jeff, and that is not happening.