"Saparate pens for each animal, but they can share walls. More efficient that way. I'll go fetch more animals while you build?"

Sable nods and gets to work. Early in the process of deciding the layout, she has a moment of feeling like it would be easier if she could mark where she wanted walls and corners, and then a thought occurs to her.

"Oh hmm. We've got all this calcite... I wonder."

She crafts two calcite together... and gets a stick of chalk.

"We have chalk!"

"Oh, nice! That'll make caving a lot safer."

Hazel goes off and starts collecting the sheep she saw earlier. 

Sable chalks out the outline and carefully builds each pen, long rectangles sharing walls, with gates at the south (house-facing) end. Eventually they're all laid out, and she tries another idea.

Hmm. What if I try a recipe like the composter but shorter? That should be a trough, if we have that mod. Only one way to find out.

She tries it, and successfully makes a feeding trough. Then makes three more, and puts one in each pen at the front corner, for easy access.

Hazel goes and fetches cows, and comes back.

At which point she witnesses the sheep making a break for it over the fence by using the feeding troughs as steps. 

"Sable, they're getting away!"

"Shit! I should've realized the trough would be enough of a step."

She immediately picks up all the troughs and grabs a carrot and a stalk of wheat, and starts luring animals back into pens, and using fences to try to sort them back into the right pens.

Hazel helps out as best she can with her own wheat and carrots, and after a few false starts (and some interfering cows) manage to get the farmyard animals sorted out into a pen each. 

"Okay," she says after all the higgledy-piggledy is done with. "I think we have that sorted now."

Hazel takes a sigh of relief. 

Feeling a bit annoyed at the animals, Hazel heads downstairs to prepare to harvest them, primarily by making a proper knife to slaughter them with but also by arranging her food situation. 

Sable collects more logs to use for house-building, then has a thought and calls down to Hazel.

"Sweetie, could you harvest the crops and fill the feeding troughs? Wanna get the livestock fed sooner rather than later."

"Oh, yeah, I can definitely do that! Just a second!" Hazel answers distractedly, not really hearing the words, and hurries up her food processing.

"Yeah, could use some wheat. Thanks." Sable keeps chopping trees. It'll take a lot of wood to build a house.

Yeah, okay, wheat, wheat —

Wait, are the animals escaping gain? She wasn't really listening too closely —

"Coming!", Hazel calls back, and grabs the wheat from the chest and hurries up the twisting stair — 

But in her hurry, she slips, and plummets from the stair.

She doesn't even cry out. Her last thought is "Aura will catch me." 

Her aura doesn't save her. It shatters.

Evenstar42 fell from a high place.

"Hazel!!"

Sable drops what she's doing and rushes for the base.

"Shit shit shit shit please be respawned please be respawned," she mutters as she sprints.

"I'm alive! Fuck that stair! It's okay, I'm okay, I respawned!" 

Hazel wraps herself in the bed's sheets and comes quickly to the bottom of the stair, where her own grave waits for her on the ground of the passageway. 

Yeah none of that is stopping Sable from continuing to sprint to Hazel to hug her.

"Fuck that staircase so much, I'm tearing it out, that's the next construction project, we're just tearing the whole fucking thing out. Replacing it. Fuck."

She reaches the bottom of the stairs and wraps her arms so tightly around her girlfriend.

"I love you. You're so important. I'm so glad you're okay."

Hazel hugs Sable so hard. "Wasn't even a fucking monster, just a stupid badly designed stair and a moment of haste —"

She squeezes Sable tighter and sniffs back tears. "G-guess this is why we've got OSHA on Earth, huh..."

She chuckles wryly and nods, stroking her hands through Hazel's hair. "I love you. You're safe. I'm so glad you're safe. My precious girl. I love you so much." She keeps squeezing so tightly.

"I love you too. I'm so glad I'm not dead."

Hazel lets out a soft sigh and hugs Sable firmly.

"I'm so glad you're not dead too." The hugging will continue until the desperate relief subsides. "I'm glad this world already has resurrection, so I don't have to invent it myself, and then stab whichever god forgot to include it. That would've been such an ordeal, and I would've been so lonely without you."

She continues to hug Hazel so tight.

Hazel hugs Sable firm and hard and holds her tight to her. 

"I didn't even expect to die when I fell off the staircase, it was just, 'whoops,' bam, and I woke up at the foot of the bed..." 

She nods and keeps hugging.

There is so much hug.

"I'm so glad you're alright."