Two days had passed since the day Coal first successfully stole the thin creature's food.

If he guessed correctly, he wouldn't need to do anything but ate and slept in his underground cave again for almost a week.

Especially with a lot of water was there in his huge loot, he at the moment had a lot of choices for future.

For example, he wanted to take a day off, lazily ate and slept in his cave and ignored the cold of winter.

But, something strange happened again.

When he woke up and started checking the wooden cave that morning like he had normally done. To his surprise, he couldn't find the wooden fences and stakes anywhere.

They all dissapeared.

The only thing left behind was a strange new, wooden object at the position where the wooden fences and stakes used to be.

It had a long wooden stick as tall as him when he stood up, plugging straight down to the ground, a wooden rectanglar box on top attaching to the stick and a black circle with two... black long ears? painting on the long side of the wooden box facing the woods.

The painting looked somehow similiar to a black rabbit but it had no eyes, no nose or mouth. It only had a pair of black long ears and an empty black face.

Actually, Coal thought it was painting him. But it really didn't matter, really.

Still curious, he jumped out of his hiding place. Slowly and carefully come closer to the new wooden object.

Some leaves and twigs stuck to his fur as he came out of the bushes.

His footprints appeared on the snow one by one while a soft, reasonable sound could be hear in his ears.

'But they will soon disappear.' He suddenly thought.

His foots touched the earth again when he came to the low snow road the creature created.

He looked around wondering if the creature was hiding somewhere, waiting for him to step into its trap like before. But after he saw the ice holes was orange, he dismissed it.

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Just to be safe, he then threw a few stones that could be found near his place at the the new wooden object, wondering if there were a trap. But nothing happened.

***

When Coal had come close enough to the new wooden object.

He started walking around the object a few times, pretending like he was a lion looking direcly at its prey. Examining every nook and cranny on the object while his black rabbit ears pointed straight at it.

But sadly and unbeknown to him, instead of looking like a lion. He looked more like a cat, an angry cat, a very angry one at that.

Walking and jumping like there was something hitting its butt painfully and continuously but when it turned back, nothing was there so it kept going. Only to be hit again not long after and made an eternal loop.

Yeah. Just like that, Coal kept dancing and focused observing, paying no attention to the outside world.

Only after a while threatening the scared wooden object, maybe. He discovered somethings useful about it.

First, there was something inside of the wooden box.

Second, opened the box was strangely easy with the wooden stick which was a part of the object wasn't very high for him to reach.

And third, the thing inside it was also made of wood too.

With a little bit hesitation, he reached into the wooden box, took out the wooden thing inside it.

He then sat down on the low snow road with his legs straight out, made a V-shaped space gap in the middle. His chest out while his back was straight. His both hands held the inside thing in front of his stomach.

His eyes wide opened. His mouth tightly shut, his ears pointed straight to the sky.

He quietly stared at the thing or more precisely, a wooden painting, for a few minutes long despite the cold.

The painting described a black cute rabbit was shaking its hands with the thin creature.

A very cute black rabbit at that. Maybe.

It him!

The black rabbit in the painting was him!

Coal suddenly self-delusion. Imagining a lot of usless stuff and falling into his stupor, one again.

***

Actually, not very cute. Normal.

The thin creature didn't know how to draw anything except for machines, to be honest...

But it was also undeniable that the black rabbit in the wooden painting was indeed Coal himself.

After all, he was the only black rabbit in the woods and behind the black rabbit in the painting, he could see a lot of snowy trees, frozen river while behind the thin creature in the painting, there were a wooden cave with orange holes and an endless snowy land.

But nevermind. Let's start again about the wooden painting without Coal.

The whole wooden painting described that,

Coal was shaking his right hand with the thin creature's right higher leg.

Coal stood in the woods side while the creature stood in the cave side. Facing each other.

Coal was standing straight while the thin creature was kneeling on one knee, respectful bow to Coal.

The thin creature's right higher leg was shaking hand with Coal's hand while its left higher leg was offering Coal a gray shining substance plate full of colorful food and drinks.

And some more unimportant details.

...

Well, it seemed to be quite complicated. And hard for Coal to understand.

It was such a blessing that he was in his stupor state at the moment or else we would have a very "rabbit kid" explanation about the painting...