-is a slowpants Meggles- ♥ 300+

Silvano was boring, taking a nap. Who did things like that? Artemis did not, no she did not! Not unless her parents made her, of course, and then she didn't really have a choice. Sometimes, though, she liked to close her eyes and pretend to sleep, to see if she could fool them. It usually did not work, but she could always keep trying. Someday, she would master the art of pretending to sleep. She woul.d not tell anyone, but usually when she pretended to fall asleep, she did end up dozing just a little bit... But not much. No, never a lot. An itty-bitty nap, at best.

Instead of napping like her brother, Artemis had adventured! The first step had been to see if the door was open and if there was anything interesting in the hall, but nothing seemed to draw her attention. Then, she had wiggled her way underneath the bed, curious to see what it was like under there. In one word, it was dusty, and she coughed a lot. During this, though, she saw a bit of shiny material—the plastic on the bottom of the box spring—hanging in her face, with a hole into the bed above her!

Of course Artemis had needed to climb up into it. Even with all of her weight on the aged plastic, she did not fall through, and she explored inside the boxspring with interest, ears perking up when she heard her brother calling for her. "I'm in the bed, Silv!" she shouted, her voice muffled by where she was. It was really weird in there, definitely. It was hot and her voice sounded funny to her own ears. She wondered if her brother would actually understand what she meant. After all, inside the bed was unexplored territory for all of them, wasn't it?

It's all good. <3

Everything about this place was dirty and dusty, but Artemis did not mind. Dust never bothered her, and neither did dirt! She spent so much time exploring and adventuring that a little dirt and dust was nothing to her. She stood shakily, hoping she would not fall right through the plastic. She would fall right onto Silvano! Actually, come to think of it... Artemis giggled a bit. That would be kind of funny. Certainly he would not appreciate that, though, so she was glad she was being very careful to not fall through. It was exciting in here, anyway!

Artemis turned around quickly and squealed with delight when she saw her brother's head pop up through the hole she had crawled up through. "Silv! We're in the bed! Isn't this sooooo cool?" she asked excitedly, tail thumping the bottom of the mattress above them rapidly. Baby blue eyes studied her brother thoughtfully, though, noting that he kept sneezing. "We can get out, though, if you want, and go explore something else. On account of the dust and all, if it bothers you," she added. Missa wanted to play, but only if he could play, too!

Artemis looked around, deciding that they must have been the only ones to come up in there. Something had ripped the plastic underneath enough that she could scramble through, but there hadn't been any other paw prints in the dust or anything. "Nope," she said firmly, "we're definitely the first ones!" Maybe. That made it even more exciting, because she could share this adventure with her technically-bigger brother. Sort of she was the first one to explore the bed, but Silvano had come in quickly enough that she'd share the glory of it all with him, too.

Her brother's denial of needing to leave made her grin happily, her tongue lolling out the side of her mouth despite all the dust their paws stirred up. She listened with interest, her ears pricked, silently until he said the last part. "No way!" she excitedly whispered, mimicking his own hushed tones so that no one could possibly find them. "Where do you think the treasure is!?" Her brother was pretty good at finding stuff, hopefully, because Artemis was mostly good at getting into things. She'd gotten them into the bed, but where the heck would the treasure be!?