Black as coal

Kea’s grin only grew at his sister's screech, and then she was there alongside him. Digging in the fireplace. Not to clean it, but to kick up as much of it as the pair could. Dusk’s pawful went straight into his coat, and then to his surprise the sudden weight of her body was pushing him down. He landed in the fireplace with an ‘oof’ and found himself coughing at the disturbed soot, even heavier down there.

Despite his coughing he wrapped a paw around his sister and attempted to bring her down to the ground beside him, but his coughing got worse and he was forced to stagger out of the fireplace, half retching black soot at the edge of their impromptu play pen. When he caught his breath, he looked about them in growing horror and delight. “Do you think theres any corners it didn’t reach….?”


"Ciaran Carpathius"