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Riona was busy looking at her toy blocks and trying to figure out what to build. What she really wanted was daddy's tools to carve them into new shapes! But he'd yelled at her last time she'd tried to play with those... Why were all the fun things also things that got her in trouble? She just wanted to make better toys! And play with dad's stuff.... but that was a minor detail!

Her twins voice calling out to her made her grin. "Wanna go and find things in the jungle and build stuff with them?" She called back as she gathered up her blocks and put them into a bag and dashed off to her sister. "I was thinking I need more things to build a better fort with my blocks!" And maybe she could try to make stick dolls to populate it.

"Ohh! A secret base!" Riona's eyes lit up. "We can hide in there when Da gets angry!" She giggled. "Gonna need to find lotsa large wood and leaves! Think you can climb and get me big leaves?" She eyed the canopy way way above them. "Or maybe not the biggest but.. medium leaves." She decided out loud. "Big big ones are too high up.... Might fall from that height."

But the big leaves would be better for making walls and ceilings... especially since they were so much larger than her and Lassyen!

"Gonna need a fortified base! In Jungle!" She declared and walked off into the safe areas behind their home. "Where we gonna hide it though, Yen? Know of any good spots?"

"You sure?" Riona asked a bit worriedly. Normally she didn't mind getting into trouble: but falling from the trees would hurt! And she would rather do it herself than ask her twin to go do something dangerous. But she did trust Lasseyn...
"If it gets too dangerous holler! Rather daddy be fretting and grumpy that you got stuck in a tall place than angry and really growly that you fell and hurt yourself!"

She looked towards where Lasseyn pointed and nodded happily. "That'll do! I can stretch vines across to help stabilize roof and walls!" She trotted off to gather up the vines needed; climbing a bit into the trees before scampering down with small thin vines. After tying some of the vines she started gathering sticks to plant underneath them: a small fence to support the leaves.

"Secret base!" She whispered happily, not caring her hands were covered in dirt and a small spider had crawled into her hair when she'd disturbed its web.

Riona finished her structures base form and waited in a mix of eagerness and worry as she watched her twin gather her bits. She nibbled her bottom lip as her eyes watched for signs of her twin falling and sighed in relief when Lasseyn returned safely.

"Yes we are!" Riona said "An those're perfect Yen!" She smiled happily and skipped over and held one up with a grin. "Gonna be awesome and secret!"

She pulled one over the roof and tied it down first before lashing the walls to the frame. That left the dead one for her to roll up as a 'door.'

She looked happily at it and grinned. "Now we have base! Is kinda.. bland... needs art." She said with a critical eye. It looked like a pile of leaves and would probably fall apart after a week or two in all honesty but they had made it and it was theirs.