I surface and swim over to Lillith, then get out of the water. I focus on my elemental magic and attempt to dry myself off with it. It mostly works. I look up at Lillith, “Think you want to resummon your companion?”
She nods and crosses her eyes, and a moment later Twila appears. She looks around, then wrinkles her nose at me. “You look wet.” She teases. “Is Lillith that hot?”
I smirk at Lillith, “Maybe.” She blushes and turns away from me.
“Are we wanting more permanent housing for our stay here?” I say, changing the subject.
“Umm, sure,” Lillith says, seemingly grateful for an escape. “How though? Wait, you said you had a blessing from a creation entity?”
“I do, and with enhanced strength, I figure I could build us a basic cabin, logs as walls and whatnot.” I start creating basic tools, an axe, a hatchet, a saw, and a draw knife for now.
Lillith watches curiously but doesn’t say anything. She rises to her feet in one motion and steps closer to me, looking around me to where I’m working. I let her watch as the glowing area between my hands takes the form of the tools I imagined. When I finish, she asks what she should do. I look around, “Find a spot with a view you like.” I heft the axe and smile. She just watches me for a moment, then nods.
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Twila lets out a giggle and Lillith turns to her. “What?” Lillith demands playfully. Twila just grins, but Lillith seems to get it and rolls her eyes before turning back to me. “Nothing else?” She asks. I shrug, “Just tell me where you want the cabin.”
“Okay.” She says. She looks around for a bit and walks away. She finds a spot fairly soon, a couple hundred feet away from the lake, before the forest starts again.
“I think here.” She calls, after stomping the ground a few times. It’s a bit amusing in her floaty dress and white, slightly glowing wings.
“That looks like a decent site.” I walk over and drop my tools there, then mark an outline of a 40-foot box onto the ground. I kneel, placing my hands inside the box, which begins to glow as rocks start surfacing from the sand and meld to create a foundation. Lillith scrambles back a few feet so she's not inside the markings.
“Woah.” She says. I nod, distracted with the slow process. It takes 30 minutes, but at the end, I have a raised, flat, solid rock foundation. Lillith stares at me, impressed. I flop over, winded from the exertion. After a few minutes, energy returns to me, and I sit up, “This may take a day or two.” Lillith nods.
“That's fine. Umm, do you need food? I know you can’t eat normal food, but I could try to find… something.” She finishes, a little uncomfortable.
“Food would be appreciated. If you can capture a decent-sized animal, I can have that.”
She nods, then unfurls her wings.
“I’ll be back with whatever I can find.” She says, darting into the forest.
I turn back to the foundation, sit on it, and look at Twila.
“I should probably not use more creation magic until I get some food in me.” She nods and smiles. I stand up after a bit, and grab my axe. I turn on my passive enhanced strength, then stride to a nice tree to start felling.