Black as coal

After Kea pulled her down and the two rolled about in the soot, they both kind of realized that it had been a bad idea. She was sneezing, he was coughing. Out of the fireplace they both went and only then did they realize just how much they'd screwed up. The air was thick with soot and so were they.

Kea questioned her and Dusk shrugged almost lifting a paw to rub at her face, but she realized something wayyyy more interesting than the soot in her eye. "Kea, look!" Perfect pawprints from both of them were scattered across the stone floor where they had walked. Experimentally, Dusk took a few more steps and the prints continued. "We could make a whole trail of these if we fill the bucket with soot! Maybe we could play a joke on the rest." The rest being their brother and sisters.

"Dusk Carpathius"