"Careful of the sm— minecraft physics. Still, I would watch it just to make sure there isn't some realism boosting mod going on."

She nods as she heads off. "I'll watch it for a few minutes while I tidy up that room, just to be sure."

Across the room, she finds a cauldron on the south wall, held to the walls by chains. Also, a lot of stair blocks being used as tables that interfere with her current plans, so she clears those out, starting in the middle of the room. Once the center's open, she throws down the campfire to complete that quest too, and gets to emptying out the rest of the room. It all turns out to be just spruce stairs, apart from one lone chest holding a pair of leather boots — and that completes another quest.

"Hey! There was a pair of leather boots in here, and that completed another armor quest. Got a bunch of smithing templates for it all."

She looks at the ceiling. Has any smoke collected?

No.

Sweet. She jogs back down the hall to the bedroom. "No smoke."

"Glad to hear it. I guess it's time we slept. Or, well, skipped the night."

Hailey flushes and nods. "Yeah, I'll just throw the last of the ore into the furnace for the night."

She does so, then strips out of her armor, shoes, and skirt, and scoots into bed.

"I'm not going to bother getting all the way undressed. It should... ease the transition a little."

Hazel takes off her shoes and lies down in bed. She snuggles cautiously up to Hailey.

"Ready?" She asks.

She nods, smiling softly. "Ready."

And then they both close their eyes.

Once again, there's a sense of time passing, warmth, and safety. Hazel awakens back on her feet at the foot of the bed, once again kicked completely out of bed by minecraft physics.

"Whuff. Less bad than last time now that I know to expect it, but..." She shakes her head. 

She looks over at the Pirates with a soft smile and waits to see who it'll be today.

"Bwuh."

Please be patient. Your Pirates are loading.

They manage to hug Hazel while their brain boots up.

Hazel very gently hugs the Pirates back, and waits.

It doesn't take as long this morning, and soon Sable's arms are tightening around her.

"Hiya, sweetie."

"Hey! Sable, I think? Hailey's less big on calling me a sweetie."

She laughs and nods. "Our voices sound a bit different, too, though that'll take a little while to get used to."

"Yeah. It's just hard to get that from only two words because yours and Hailey's are a bit closer than the two of you and Ruby or Maya."

"Very true," she replies with a soft smile, then presses a soft kiss to Hazel's lips. "Love you."

She flushes a little, but kisses back. "Love you too."

She streches. "So, what to do today?"

"Probably one of us should make some food, and then I think I want to build an animal pen."

She runs a hand down Hazel's side, gently.

"I've got a knife, some chicken, and enough crops to make something actually tasty that isn't a sweet. I'll go harvest and make you some chicken sandwiches." 

She sighs. "I bet the crafting interface won't let me not put lettuce on them, though. Farmer's delight is a bit insistent on lettuce on everything. It's alright, there's still bread, I won't starve, it'll just be a pretty boring day for me cuisine-wise." 

"Right, your sensitivity." She runs her fingers through Hazel's hair. "Hm. If we've got any integration between Create and Farmer's Delight, we'll be able to make more-flexible chicken sandwiches sooner or later, but you may be stuck for now, yeah."

"I think we should try and get together some animal pens today," Hazel says. "We can use the meat, and even if we decide the animals are a little too intelligent for us to be comfortable killing them there'll be eggs and wool and milk and feathers, all of which are important for comfort. Eggs in particular would let me make egg sandwiches, which would be a huge step up from nothing but bread."

"We do have the berries, at least, so you can probably make something with those."

She stretches and gets her armor on.

"Yeah, I'll think about it. Let's get moving, daylight's spending."

She gets her armor on, goes over to the door, opens it, and heads up the spiral staircase to the surface, careful to take it slowly so she doesn't fall.

The crops have all grown in overnight, so she gets busy harvesting.

Meanwhile, Sable treks up to the cherry grove and starts chopping trees and replanting them. She finds herself covered in leaf piles a few times.

"You figure we go for a whole barn, or just a pen for now?", she asks while she chops.

"Just a pen for now; we can always raise a barn around an existing pen, but raising a whole barn and then having to go to bed having done just that for today would be uncomfy. Better to get the animals together first and then get them something proper to keep the rain off."

Hazel replants rows of crops, carefully reseeding her farm. 

"Yeah, that makes sense."

She giggles as another leaf pile drops on her, continuing to chop trees.