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dalila
03-23-2021, 05:22 PM
Dalila's pale gaze widened with surprise when Siren told her she should have the creative freedom and glanced shyly toward the ground at the idea. "Oh, I don't know about all that, my lady," she replied with a bit of nervousness, chuckling softly to try and play off the pressure she felt from the idea. She was very, very good at following direction and would carry out anything she was told to do to the letter, but making a decision herself was more challenging. Plus, there was the added worry that she'd pick something and Siren would end up not liking what she decided to go with. She liked imagining the different options they had for the space, but she had never been given the freedom to do whatever she wanted. Then again... if that's what Siren wanted, she didn't want to make her sad by turning her down either... Dalila gave Siren another glance to make sure her princess was sure about the choice before giving a little nod and a faint smile. "Um... Okay, well..." She went back to stand next to Siren again, looking at the wall that they had been studying again before glancing around the rest of the room. "I think... some of the inset shelves would be best on this side because there isn't another room behind that wall and it's not as wide of a space to work with between these two entrances." Yes, that made the most sense in her mind. Some of that original excitement came back as more ideas started to come to her and she added, "Oh! Maybe we leave the space under the bottom shelf empty and dig it a little deeper than the shelf space and that can be a space for some baskets to hold bigger items like bandages and things like that." She grinned and looked back to Siren with her tail wagging gently behind her. "One of the older women I grew up around knew how to make them and I watched her a bunch of times so I'm sure we can figure it out!" Now that they had a plan of action she felt even more eager to get started. She wasn't all that surprised by Siren stating that she didn't mind getting her paws dirty for their task, though she was certain Chimera wouldn't be pleased if he came back and found his sister with dirt all over her pale paws. Who was she to say Siren couldn't take part in building out her storage room? "Shall we get started then?" she asked cheerfully before trotting into the other room to grab her makeshift bucket that she had used when she was helping Chimera dig out the other sleeping spaces. Bringing it over to the wall they were starting with, she sat it down and then reached up with her front paw and started tracing out an outline for where the alcove would be, climbing up onto the wall for a moment to trace out the top. She stood back with a tip of her head when she was done, asking, "What do you think? Is that a good spot?" |