It’ll be a house-building day, unfortunately.
They say most hobbies are 90% sanding. Apparently it becomes 100% when the only sander at your disposal is a flat rock.
Every night I sleep on a bed of grass, my fresh soulless clone sound asleep in the replicator next to me. Sometimes I find scavengers on it, dumfounded at the strange glass barrier between them and their meal. I don’t know how they can smell it through the machine.
My copper axe continues to hold out, but I look forward to replacing it. I’ll have to keep an eye out for tin as I go, maybe even iron, but that’s a whole different process.
I’ll make the walls out of mud-plaster for now and replace them when I have something better to work with. I’ll be very dirty by the time this is over.
I saw something glint below me during my bath in the spring. I then did what any prospector would do, and started panning.
Granted my hand was not the ideal tool for it, I’ll have to make an actual pan next time I light my kiln. Something glinted alright, though trying to pick it out of the mud was a trial for the greatest of prospectors.
Not gold or copper or tin, but a tiny little gem. Pretty, but oh so useless to me right now.
It had to have come from deeper, much deeper. Is this place on a fault line? I hope that won’t be a problem later.
I left it on a tree-stump, maybe I’ll put it on a ring later, but for now it exists to shine in the sun. And maybe blind me when the light hits it half past noon.
Clay, sand, and grass, the three ingredients to a perfect wall a wall. It won’t protect me from anything stronger than the wind, but it’s a barrier between my abode and the rest of the planet.
It took some getting used to, long ago, going from the hide tents of Finia’s plains to the metal walls the humans gave us. I can say I adapted better than most, I don’t miss attending to some elder’s mental breakdown every other day.
But at least these walls are mine, and they’ll stay standing for as long as I decide to leave them up.
I think I’ll leave the ceiling open to the stars, though.