Ivory was kind enough to give me a fresh torch and see me back to my room seeing as Truffle was too lazy to do it herself. A small pit-stop was made so I could use the shit-pit to take a leak, and another to drop in and see Berry and Diana who stayed in the cave-hole right past it for a very short while, but it made her happy that I did. Diana was looking healthy, and still wanted to bite off my finger. I promised I'd come see Berry for a longer time tomorrow and she promised to have some more berries for me to eat, even though it wasn't necessary. I still had most of the bowl of berries she had given me in my room, having only been eating them sparingly.
With the remainder of the fresh torchlight, I went back to sweeping up the remnants of the large pile of dirt that was once a throne created at the whim of that insanely powerful being known as the Great Protector, and worked on sweeping it towards the walls with my handheld rope-tied straw broom. I had decided on three room improvements I'd like to have, and maybe I could convince Jewel to waste her important time with me to let me make it happen with magic using the topaz stone.
The first was a raised bed. I just wanted something that felt like this is a bed more so than just the small amount of straw spread out on the floor in a small pile. I would make it big enough for three goblins and myself to sleep on comfortably.
The second was a table. I wanted to be able to sit at a table properly and eat in the morning with Prima and the others. Whether this life or the previous life, I enjoyed eating in a designated eating spot with the people I cared about. Certain family values like that I just feel missing when they aren't there.
The third was born from making the bedroom in Berry's cave-hole, and I wanted to make the breeding cavern a bit more human-like in design. Proper flat walls, square architecture, and maybe some shelves or cubby-holes. I'd also flatten the entire floor properly so I could walk safely in the dark. Maybe some raised bumps like blind people used at crosswalks so I could know the direct path from my bed to the room's entrance for when I need to go and use the shit-pit would be nice, but perhaps also too much. Until I began living in this cave, I've never really had compassion for the struggle blind people endure every day of their life. I also have no clue how those bumpy things work, or braille, for that matter… I should probably give up on that last one.
Really, these were mostly just quality-of-life things I wanted done. The room was huge and it would take me a considerable amount of time to do any of them. So numbers one and two were the priority right now. Also, forget anything to do with the cavern roof. It was easily twice my height and I would only bother with it if I somehow had free-access to my wand or focus orb, which were best forgotten about for now.
I knew for sure where my guild card was, alchemy set was, my wand was, and my canteen was. I was almost certain Jewel had my focus orb. I had acquired my underwear which was a gift in trade for me choosing that one cinnamon-haired goblin I met earlier when I was exercising outside, and that just left a bunch of piddly things remaining. The rest of my clothes, my cookware, my magic lantern, an observational tome I used to write things down in along with black chalk, my dismantling knife, and my herb pouch which was actually enchanted with an extra-dimensional pocket inside of it. There were other things, yes, but they weren't as remotely important as the ones I just mentioned.
Without much else to do after sweeping my room, I laid down on my bed and simply wondered if I would ever get tired of fucking goblins…
~~** Interlude | Jewel **~~
"Jewel, we want to trade."
Jewel was lying down in her bed, rubbing herself with one hand as she held a round white stone above her face with her other, staring at it enamored while she did. She had thought about going to visit Husband, wanting to have her fuckhole stuffed with his seed-stick again. She only decided against it when seeing Prima leaving Husband's cave-hole early in the morning.
She decided she wouldn't do anything today but enjoy looking at her colored stones. Husband could wait until tomorrow. She had a feeling that those two needed time to sort out some things.
Two goblins had come to her cave-hole in order to trade with her, and Jewel was fine with listening to what they had to say.
"We want Husband to use magic on our cave-holes."
"Yeah, Husband gave us both big seed and names. We will have strong ones soon!"
Jewel sat up, and looked at the two goblins. If there was any such thing as co-dependence in the goblin tribe, not that she knew what that was by definition, those two were it.
"Names? What names did Husband give you?"
"Husband called me Truffle. It means tastiest mushroom."
"Husband called me Ivory. It means pretty bones."
It seems that Husband was at it as usual. Well, if they are coming to trade directly instead of having Husband come beg her, that is just fine with Jewel.
"So? What do you want to trade?"
"I can trade seven tasty mushrooms, and some color-spin-think powder."
"I will make bone charms for your strong ones with the nicest bones I have."
Those were both very tempting offers for Jewel. The mushrooms were worthless to her, but the color-spin-think powder was a great way to stave off boredom, and Ivory's bone charms were always very well made.
"Okay. We trade." Jewel quickly agreed. "I will come with Husband so he can use magic on your cave-holes. But tomorrow, and only if he wants to do it."
"Deal!" The two newly named and freshly fucked goblins agreed before leaving Jewel's cave-hole.
Perhaps she should have Husband use magic on her own cave-hole as well. Digging for months to expand a cave-hole seemed kind of stupid when Husband could use magic in no time at all to do the otherwise tedious job. Jewel was smart even before Husband gave her big seed. She also wanted a place to put her many colored stones on display. Maybe she would get some ideas seeing what Husband dug their cave-hole into something new?
She laid back down on her bed and began rubbing herself again, but was even more eager to pay Husband a visit today after all.
~~** Interlude | Prima **~~
Prima was sitting in her cave-hole and staring at the flat square thing called a guild card that once belonged to Ark. It was supposed to say many things with the markings, but she couldn't even begin to understand how to read it. She knew what it said though, since Ark had explained each of the lines.
"Job, Adventurer. Name, Ark. Body not strong, Thinking very strong, Magic strong."
She found humor in the fourth line, since she knew Ark was incredibly stupid. Stupid and always making trouble for her. Right now she was feeling kind of miserable. Ark wasted a lot of seed with her last night, and she wanted him to. Even when he didn't eat or drink for days because of her, he still wasted seed with her.
Ark didn't seem to be hostile to her anymore, and he didn't shy his hand away from her belly which was finally showing some growth. He even asked if he could move about freely to give seed to other goblins if he wanted, which was a good thing… she hoped.