wanna take a toke?

Fuji barely managed to dodge the falling tree her sister had chosen to uproot, and she could smell the skunky leaves getting smellier as they fell towards her. She scowled, not at her sister, but at the offending bush. She would have set the whole thing on fire if it had dared to land on her.

She nodded her agreement to Rheu, it should be enough, but also subtle enough that mumma wouldn't be overwhelmed. She gathered up her own plant in her jaws, sap from the fat leaves sticking to her tongue as they raced as best they could with their burdens back into the maze. Once back in the green walled safety of home, it was a bit slower going sneaking back to the garden. After all what good was a surprise if you were caught in the act? She was starting to feel a little light-headed, assuming it was from all the running she had needed to do to get back home, her short legs having to work twice as hard as anyone else's to get anywhere. Also, colours seemed a lot brighter...

But there was work to be done yet! Once they reached the garden she got started with her excavating, only pausing to try and shake some of the dizziness from her head. She kept feeling a grin pull at the corners of her mouth, but she had no good reason for the expression to be there and would scowl when she caught herself. She took note of how the soil was so different her to what it was out in the desert, but it also seemed to be close enough, so she used her fingers to press the soil down around the base of the plant.

Rheum's was a lot taller than her trailing plant and she imagined with it's roots disturbed it might not stand up so well. She went to fetch a thin bamboo shoot that stood about as tall as her sister's tree and she stabbed it into the ground alongside the trunk. She took some leaves from a larger bamboo and used them to tie the bottom of the tree to the stick to try and hold it up, but that wasn't quite enough, the top still sagged looking sad. She clambered onto her sisters back to reach up higher and just finished tying her knot when another wave of dizziness overtook her and she tumbled to the ground with an oof, sprawling on her back with her belly exposed, looking up towards the bright blue sky.

She couldn't contain the giggle that left her lips. "Hey Rheu, that cloud looks like a butt!"

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