Mindful not to outpace him, Spinel listens to the basic tasks ahead. It doesn’t sound very involved, unlike the tasks for cooking, so she does not pry for more instructions on the way. Instead, she starts a joke, “They must be somewhere. Furniture doesn’t just get up and walk away-“ only to pause as she remembers that things here don’t always follow the rules of her world. “...can they?”

“On Homeworld, Pebbles would build or deconstruct furniture as was needed, but I haven’t seen any here...”