too bad there aren't any cliffs here

He snaps at her, the branch barely missing him, and she giggles with glee. She drops the branch on the growing pile.
"No." She replies objectively with her nose the air and another drop of rain fell on her making her face scrunch. The branches overhead barely kept the rain from the ground, the branches must be too high in the air!

She walked around one of the trunks, her golden gaze looking up until a drop of rain fell on her eye and she shook her pelt out. If only she had something to sit under... She eyed the not-not-brother, he was building something! Oooh! She can do that too! Xina didn't understand the concept of helping, she just wanted to be part of it. She picked up a feathery branch off the ground and dragged it back to the boy. If the branches were closer to the ground, they could fend off the rain better!

She placed the green prickly pine branch over one side of the structure without asking permission nor his name, or anything of the sort then dashed off and grabbed another prickly branch to pile on that one where it would make the most sense. He had already made the bones of the structure. She was putting the roof on now.