The last straw

Now that her leg was able to handle her walking a ways she was more than ready to get out and about to see this land she had found herself in. She wasn't exactly picky in where her explorations began so when Mercury brought up going to a crafting competition of sorts in the northern continent she was eager to go. She couldn't say she was particularly invested in the straw figure building, but she did enjoy making things and it gave her a good excuse to cover a lot of ground to see a wide range of places between where The Hallows made their home and this place called the stone steppe. Besides, if she was going to participate in all these odd things going on then she certainly wanted Mercury to be the one she did them with.

As they approached the collection of materials that had been left for them and Mercury asked her for any ideas on where they should start, she hummed with thought and picked at a bit of the straw, feeling the texture of it. "Well... It has to be in the shape of a wolf, right? So I feel like we can start getting the shape down first and then add on some personal touches as we go." She gathered up a clump of the straw and started guessing how much they would need to make a leg. "Maybe we can figure out how to make it look like it's running!" she added with a grin. Even though she had mostly just agreed to participate as a way to get out and see Boreas, now that she was here her usual interest in crafting got her a little more excited in the actual activity than she had been before. She reached for a roll of twine that was among the various supplies at their disposal and held up a clump of straw to Mercury. "Will you hold it together and I'll work on getting the segments tied together?"

"Anthea Dásos"