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Oce is constructing her own hut for the winter, since it it too cold to dig a den and also to make the paste that the Cherokee huts would use I believe. I'm improvising 
Anyone's welcome to help her! (249)
It probably would have looked funny for a passerby to see the chocolate coloured female struggling with a strange looking frame of twigs and bark. But Ocèane wasn't too concerned about how she looked while trying to build the thing's frame, just so long as it was done soon! It was getting pretty cold out here and she would be glad of the warmth and shelter the meager structure would offer.
Before she had started on the frame she had gathered other necessary supplies and layed them out on the ground not too far from the building. So far she had almost completed the first part of the frame, but had yet to get it standing right. It would need a few more layers of branches lashed together with bark strips before she could begin layering the bark and leafy branches to insulate it against the cold.
Of course she was well aware that she could live with her brother Claudius in their family's old den but she wanted them to each have there personal space. She wanted to spend as much time with him as she could after learning of the death of their sister Noir. But the den held too many memories for her that she had to find somewhere else to call home. Her breath fogged the air as she worked, her experience travelling in the wilderness had taught her how to build a good temporary shelter and this one needed to last her the winter.
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