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Skye smiled when he said he'd want to taste the berries. She couldn't wait until he tasted them, either; they were delicious, and she wanted to show them off to her friends. And when Pixie came, Skye would show her the bush, too, and she'd give her some. She planned on planting a lot more of the berries where that had come from; when that one bush grew into a full grown bush with plenty of berries, she'd take the berries and plant them all around that area as well as some other edible plant's seeds. It'd be like a garden, a garden so her new pack could survive through the winter.
"Oh," Skye said in response to his questioning of whether or not she should mark it, "I did mark it, sort of - I put a mound of dirt over the seed so it's easy to see. And it's in the very corner of the patch of dirt, so I'll remember. Great suggestion, though!" She would mark it properly, but later...she really wanted to see what was behind this wall of trees.
She found a tiny gap between the trees, big enough for her slim figure to slip through, but not quite so small as for the larger and buffer Shawchert to go through...looking at the predicament, she took a branch and snapped it so that it was out of the way. Now Shaw could go through if he sucked his stomach in a bit. She giggled at the idea and slipped through the crack.
What was on the other side astounded her.
It was a town. A town in her little pack's territory. There was a single, wide street that ran between rows and rows of wooden and stone houses alike. They were covered in foliage, the houses, so that you could maybe see a window here and here, but otherwise it was covered completely in green. She saw that the house nearest to the garden was stone; but she could barely see the cracked rocks from inside the leafy barrier.
"Shaw, Shaw, you have to see this!" This was wonderful! It would mean that winter would be a little less hard on Cercatori d'Arte than it normally would, and that Skye would finally - finally! - have shelter. She'd hated lying down on cold earth night after night. Oh, a warm bed! "A bed!" she exclaimed, an enormous grin on her face.
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