Another Day At the Cabin

Characters: Kentar, Will, Amy, Aikuen

Location: Kentar's Cabin

Kentar's Cabin

Kentar is enjoying a day at home with his wife. Okay. Not true. His wife isn't enjoying it. She's napping. And he's got Chris. The stoat is in the room down stairs near the kitchen that they've made their 'living room' since the poor otter family is currently in the room that should be the living room. He's rocking Chris slowly in his arms, the little one sleeping away like his mother.

Will is in the kitchen cooking something in a large pot. Amy is with him and they are talking rather loudly about something. The talking turns to shouting and there is a yowl of pain from one of the pair and the voices stop before resuming again, only slightly quieter than at first.

The stoat jumps up quickly when he hears a yowl of pain, the stoat setting Chris in the arms of one of the passing otter family, and darting into the kitchen. "What happened, what's wrong, who is hurt!?" he looks around.

Amethyst sits in her chair glaring at the empty air in front of her, no telling what the air did to offend her. Her right paw is wrapped in a wet rag. She doesn't answer the stoat.

Will had been kneeling beside Amy's chair but he stands up when his brother comes in. "She burned her paw on accident," he explains, "I got her a wet rag t put on it and it didn't look that bad so she should be fine."

Kentar ahs and then nods slowly. "Ah. Well. Thought you were being attacked or something." he smiles then nods a little, going over. "Good thinking, Will. The wet rag I mean." he then looks to Amy. "You alright?"

Amethyst continues to nurse her hurt paw as she stares at nothing. "Do I /look/ alright?!" she growls toward the stoat. The maid is not in the best of moods right now and it may be best to avoid the blind cripple til she's calmed down again.

Will gives the stoat a strained smile and goes back to what he'd been cooking, "She's mad at me again. It's nothing just not a good idea t talk to her right now," he says as he moves the pot off the fire. "Soups done. I'll go tell everyone an see if Pa an Mum ave got back yet," the rat says leaving Kentar and Amy alone in the kitchen with a large pot of hot soup.

Kentar's Cabin: Outside the Cabin

Aikuen and Fira are sitting out on the porch this afternoon. The younger otter has taken control of the only rocking chair on the porch, leaving Aik to sit on the ground. But he doesn't mind! He is not the one with child! The older otter leans against her legs in front of her, while she reads the one book that she brought. Aik sticks out his tongue, and squints stupidly as he carves out the tiny lettering on the rock. Fira smirks at him as he leans his head against her, before going back to reading. Aik grunts, and blows out a bit of dust, "I think it looks pretty good..." he hmms, before going back to carving.

After search all through the cabin Will exits the cabin and walks out onto the porch. He spies the otters right off and grins, "Hey. I was looking for you two er three .... uh anyway. I made soup and we're kinda waiting on you.

Aikuen looks up, after a bit, after Will came onto the porch. Wanted to finish off one more letter. He puts away the rock, and the tiny chisel within his cloak before looking up and giving a small smile, "Hey! Hows it going!..." he chuckles at the three part, "Ah good then!" Fira didn't see Will until she got the feeling of being watched, and when Aik turned his head in that direction. She gives a small wave and a yawn, before smiling. She still has no idea what's going on. Aik grins and gets up, holding out a paw to her, "Come on my beautiful mate. The soup has been cookeratted..." he chuckles. Fira rolls her eyes, before she takes his paw and is lifted. She groans as she get up, putting her paw on her bump.

Will smiles a little as the otters move to follow him inside, "It's hotroot soup though it probably a little weak. You can fix it up however you want once we get in."

Aikuen nods, "Sure thing! We like ours... Slap your knee, and call Kentar, Sally, type of hot!" he chuckles, and leads his wife indoors right in after Will. Fira follows her nose, and drags Aik along to the smell of soup. Aik ufs, and is pulled along, "Is there any biscuits?" he can always grab a few, if need be. He knows she likes them.

Will blinks not even trying to figure out what the otter is saying. "Yeah. there's a big thing of hotroot on th table so everyone can add as much as they want to their own bowl," he says.

Kentar's Cabin: Inside

Aikuen and Fira head over to the table, and Aik helps her to sit down. Fira whacks his paw away, as she wants to do it herself. She carefully sits down on the chair, after some uffing. Aik shakes his head a little bit, as he sits down next to her. He sighs and grabs her paw under the table, to give the top a little rub. Aik looks around, "Soooo.... No biscuits?"

Will hms, "There were biscuits. They might still be in th kitchen." The rat heads off to check the kitchen for the missing biscuits.

Aikuen nods, and place their paws on the table to hold and rub. Waiting for the biscuits. That Fira will require. And there better be a lot of them.

Kentar had been gone off to get Garnet for dinner. He told her what they were having and she just nodded, still sleepy from the nap. Her and her husband go down to the table and then take up their respective seats. "Hey, Aik. Fira." Kentar smiles

Will returns after a while with the plate fluffy biscuits and some hardtack, large piles of both, and set them on on the table. "I think we have everything," Will says looking over everything on the table just to be sure.

Aikuen lost to a game of claw wars with Fira. Or he let her win. He chuckles and looks to Kentar and Garnet, "Hiya Stoaty Stoats!" he laughs. Fira shakes her head and waves to the others. Aik grins and says, "How are things with you two. We haven't seen much of you guys lately, been jumping around the village a lot!" Then Will comes in with the biscuits and both otters reach for the exact same piece of hardtack. Fira smirks and kisses Aik, stealing the piece of bread from under his nose. Aik blinks and is lost. He then eyes her, "You little sneak!" he grins and grabs a few to place in front of them. Fira is already eating the bread she stole. Aik winks at Will, "Thank ye Will...." he looks over the table, "Alrighty... Bring on the ZOOP!" he laughs.

The stoats chuckle at the silly otters before Kentar shrugs a little. "We're tired. Chris is giving us a hard time lately." He yawns. Garnet just nods. "Wont eat this or that, he won't sleep and when he does, he wakes up ten minutes later." He laughs

Aikuen tilts his head, "Wont eat? Wont sleep?" he hmms. Fira has now another worry. Aik taps his fangs a few times, trying to figure out what might be wrong, "Do you know whats wrong? Like what has been different... to cause him to do this?"

Amethyst comes in from the kitchen looking better than she had earlier though there is a burn on her left paw. She turns toward the stoat's voices as she wheels her chair up to the table, across from Aikuen, "Chris is causing trouble? More than the normal babe does?"

Will is too busy bringing in bowls of soup and drinks for the others to catch much of the conversation, not that he knows much about babies anyway.

Kentar hrms at the otters and frowns. "You obviously don't remember what babes are like. Fussy things that take a while to feed. Takes a while to get to sleep and only sleeps for a few hours. Nothing's wrong. Just being fussy." he eyes Aik. Stupid beast.

Aikuen raises a brow at the stoat then shrugs, "Then you shouldn't be complaining. I thought he was teething or something like that. I thought i had to worry..." he chuckles, "I've never had that problem before. Getting them to eat and sleep... That's why i asked..." he grins, and then eyes him back, "Sorry i asked..."

Kentar chuckles a little. "He's just being stubborn Aik." he grins. "Like an otter I happen to be staring at." he laughs then looks to Chris, who is in Garnet's arms, napping. Seems like his mother is doing the same.

Aikuen nods and smiles, then realizes he was just insulted, and he sticks out his tongue, "Just like his godfather eh?" he chuckles, "Just want to look out for the little guy... When he teethes..." he looks a bit scared, "That's going to be fun!" he shakes his head and pulls over his bowl of hotroot soup. Fira has already been sampling hers, and has pulled the bowl of hotroot powder toward her, dumping a good part in. Aik await for his turn with the powder, "Just remember Kentar. Me and Fi, are here if you guys need a break from him. Ill be more than glad to take care of him. Like always..." he looks to Fira, who wants to make sure her soup can melt metal before handing the powder to Aik.

Will has finally gotten a chance to sit down with his own bowl of soup and waits for the hotroot power to come around though he wonders if it was wise to let the otters have it first.

Kentar mmhmms. "Thanks." He smiles at them before starting to eat the soup slowly. He must be one of the only stoats in the world who likes hotroot soup.

Aikuen dumps about just about the same amount of hotroot as Fira did. There otters! What did you expect! Though Aik put little bit less. Not as hot as her. He samples some, "WHEH! That's a knee slapper right there!" he chuckles and passes the bowl to Will. There is a good amount left. Though recommend to either buy more, or stop serving hotroot soup. Or else its all going to be gone. Aik dips his hardtack into the red concoction and eats the soaked bread. He smiles at Kentar, "Good soup eh?" he looks to Will, "My compliments to the chef!" he chuckles.

Will nods a little as he pours some hotroot into his soup, he doesn't like it as hot as the otters do but he still takes pains to save plenty for the other otters at the table. Yes he really needs to doctor is own soup first /and/ get more hotroot. "Glad you like it, Pa." he smiles back at the otter, passing the hotroot to the next beast.

Aikuen and Fira both polish off their bowls. But it seems the pregnant otter won the race, as she pretty much inhaled the soup. Now she nibbles on several of the pieces of Hardtack that she has collected in front of her. Aik wipes his mouth, and grins, "Ah... Very good... And I can't feel my tongue!" he chuckles, and grabs one of the pieces of bread. Fira whacks him playfully. Aik laughs, and takes her free paw.

Kentar laughs a little bit and grins, looking to the otters then the rats then the otters again. "You know, I've never had hotroot soup strong enough to make me lose the feeling in my tongue...if you can do it, so can I!" He...really doesn't know what he's getting into. "Is there anymore left?" he asks, looking to Will. He'll be sorry.

Will laughs at Aik, "You can't? Then it must be good!"

Aikuen winks at Will, "Of course it's good!" he then blinks at Kentar, "You What? Listen matey... We've been eating hotroot soup, like that, since we were just young'uns... Why would you want to anyway? It's good like it is!" he chuckles, "We just like to have it... kicked up a notch!" he laughs. Fira yawns and leans on Aik. Just about to follow Garnet off to sleepy town. Aik looks to her and pats her paw softly.

Kentar laughs and grins. "Because if you can do it, I can too." he nods, the stoat looking around before standing. He takes his bowl and gets seconds before sitting back down, searching about for that hootroot powder thing he saw going around.

Will nudges the remainder of the hotroot toward the stoat, "There's not much left and you'll probably regret it if you use it all and aren't used to it." Will shall warn the stoat but he won't stop him. It's too much fun not too.

Aikuen sighs and chuckles at him, "Alright matey.... Go ahead. But just remember that we warned you. If your mouth catches on fire!" he laughs and gets ready for the show.

Kentar grins and fills up the soup with the powder. He doesn't notice that he used all of what was left. Actually, he did but he doesn't care. He then starts to down the soup.

Amethyst is quietly eating her non-hotroot infused soup (compared to the others that is) and doesn't see any reason to comment on the stoat's stupidity.

Aikuen blinks a bit and shakes his head, at the amount of hotroot the stoat put in. "Will, see if you can find some greensap milk. He is going to need it!" he laughs and pushes the pitcher of water on the table toward the stoat. To cool the fire somewhat. When it finally reaches the stoat.

Will nods and goes off to get the milk and anything else that may help the stoat. He soon returns with the milk and some fruit just in case the milk alone isn't enough.

Kentar finishes off the soup and then wipes off his mouth, waiting for a moment. "Mm...really good!" he smiles wide before he blinks. Blink blink. He pauses before starting to pant. He tries not to look like his mouth is on fire but it only makes him look really funny.

Aikuen snorts with laughter, "It's got some sort of kick, Don't it!" he laughs, and taps the pitcher Will brought, "Drink some of this... Then have some of the bread!" He can't help but laugh at the stoat. He did warn him. Ah well, it's a good show all the same!

Will chuckles, "Maybe you should work your way up to 'otter level' more slowly Kentar."

Kentar pants a little harder before all of a sudden he reaches for the pitcher and starts to chug down its contents. It seems to be very, very hot, since tears fall from his eyes. It was so hot, it made him cry. Must be a sight.

Amethyst has finished her soup and calls across to Aikuen, "Pass the bread over here if there's any left." She is only partly aware of the stoat's predicament, "Soup a little too hot, Kentar?" she asks with a smile.

Aikuen sighs and wipes his own eyes. Laughing too hard. He eventually sighs and pushes over a few hunks of the bread over to Amy, "Here yah go!" and he looks back to Kentar, "You played with fire. And got burned... But I bet it was tasty!" he chuckles.

Aikuen laughs and stands up slowly. Fira is awaken suddenly and looks up at him. Aik smiles and says, "You're tired, come on..." he helps her out of the chair, "You get some sleep, and I'll have a pot of tea ready when you wake..." he smiles and leads her toward the door, then up the stairs, "See yah guys later... Sleepy, pregnant otter comes first!" and they are gone.

Kentar pants hard after downing the milk and then the water. "Wow...that...was amazingly...hot...but very good." He smiles and chuckles, wiping away his eyes. "Wow. Night...Aik, Fira..." his mouth seems to still be on fireish.

Will snorts and nearly spits out the water he'd been drinking, "*cough* ... night, Pa. night, Mum." he chokes out before he breaks down laughing at the stoat. "... oh, Kentar. I wish you could see your face right now!" the rat laughs.

Amethyst rolls her eyes and chews on a biscuit as one of the few present that doesn't much care for excessive amounts of hotroot she just doesn't get it.

Kentar frowns at Will but it's a really crooked frown, making him look really goofy. "I'm sure it's funny as anything." he smirks and then shudders. "Man, that was hot. Hottest thing I've ever tasted!"

Will grins and chuckles a little, "Yeah but it was good right?" He just can't look at the stoat and keep a straight face it seems

Kentar nods slowly then chuckles. "It was very, very good." he smiles.

Will nods and pushes his bowl away to grab some of the fruit he'd brought in that Kentar hasn't touched anyway. "I imagine it was but may take a while for your tongue heal."

Kentar nods then smirks a little bit. "My tongue feels fine." He nods, lying of course. "Anyways." The stoat stands and wakes Garnet up. Luckily, Chris stays napping. "We're going to go off to bed. We'll see you tomorrow ratties." he smiles as they go off up the stairs.

Will smiles and nods not believing the stoat on account of how much hotroot he'd eaten. The rat waves as the stoats leave, "If you say so. Night, Kentar. Garnet, Chris."

Amethyst raises a paw as if to wave as she munches on her bread, "Night Kentar, Garnet, Chris whoever else is leaving."

The rats finish their meal and Will clears the table as Amy wheels herself off to their room to get ready for bed herself. Will soon joins her and before too long the rats are sleep.