Aesthetically pleasing, huh?

Her mother greeted her, and Nessie's tail got to wagging as she slowly leaned forward to grab the rabbit skin in her teeth and potentially chew on it, but she stopped when her mother started to explain to her about their older sister, and wanting to make something for her to snuggle up with at night. She pulled her teeth away from the rabbit skin and listened, head cocking to the side. “I’m not sure how to make the pillow special, though. We can use the rabbit fur on the outside, so it's soft to lay against and fill it with dried herbs and grasses as well as some other furs, but…” Nessie eyed the materials her mom had, and while she didn't know jack all about making things yet, or what went into making a pillow, she knew that if she wanted to snuggle up with something, it had to smell nice and had to be soft!

“What would you add to make it special, Nessie? Can you help me figure something out for your big sister?” Her gaze darted from material to material, wondering how the other furs would make it soft or how they'd have to stuff them in. "Hmmm..." She squinted in thought, and then an idea popped into her head! "Oh! What about a buncha feathers? We can stuff the rabbit skins with a buncha soft feathers, and also lavender so that it smells nice. Everyone likes lavender, right? I like it, it smells nice and Nessie feels um...well I dunno, but it smells nice and Nessie feels good after rolling in it!"

She had a whole bunch of feathers she had found around the pack and snuck away from bird nest. Storks and herons and geese frequented the waters, and their feathers were big and pretty, and there were some fluffier bits that were very, very soft. She couldn't help but swipe them when the birds weren't around, so she had a collection of down, as well as random other feathers stashed away in a special little hidey-hole. She was okay with parting with them if it meant they'd make someone else happy! "Mama, I have a lotta feathers we can use! Some are really, really soft! Like what I think a cloud might feel like soft! I can go get 'em!"

In her excitement, she dashed off to go fetch them. Her hidey hole wasn't far from where her mother was, so she raced over to the side of the falls until she had spotted it! Glancing around to make sure none of her siblings were around (she didn't want others to know where she stashed her trinkets), she ran over to it and quickly stuck herself half way into the hole and started gathering all the feathers she could hold. All she had was her mouth though...and she tried not to gag at the feathers she was stuffing in her mouth, but she wanted to help make her sister happy. Once she grabbed all she could, she ran back to where her mother was, tail and head held high with pride! She approached and spat them out on the ground, grimacing as a couple of them stuck to her teeth and tongue. "Plah!" She plucked the remaining feathers from her mouth and face before sitting down, tail wagging as she grinned. "Here ya go mama! If we need more, I can get more!"

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