Once she'd cleared a large enough area she started to build her fire. Building an actual pit would have been better, but by the looks of the suns position and the chill that was seeping in she didn't have time for that. Rocks from the river (pants rolled up high. She wouldn't do that in public but then she was just working now. Whatever the snake thought, or even saw, was not something that concerned her) were placed in a circle, still leaving some of the cleared area out of the circle for the stray sparks to land harmlessly. One rock, especially picked, was flat and pushed a bit further into the circle. This would be her frying pan of sorts.
But to cook the fish she needed fire. She sent Led out to get bigger bits of wood while Moofius gathered kindling and found her lighter. Long, dry grass went towards starter balls. Fast burners. The gallizar returned with wood. Some of it dry, some of it... not. Well the gallizar didn't know how to make a fire so Moofius just kicked those logs and sticks away.
Led took offense but didn't say anything as she let her master work. Why build a fire? The cold helped her sleep better. To warm the night was foolish. The earth had a natural cycle and the master was messing with that cycle. Humans were strange creatures.
It took two tries (damn stray wind off the Tengel River) but the fire was started and turning to something healthy. Ash smudged her face as she'd had to help the fire into life which had flared up with some ash just for her.
She got up off her stomach, coughing a little. The smoke wasn't so bad but not perfect either. The Tengel was rather damp so perfectly dry wood was harder to come by then she liked. Hopefully it would calm down and become more manageable.
"If the fire tries to spread, just call for me, alright? I need to get some herbs so the food is good!"
Moofius had always liked cooking. It seemed all of the Chaos back home had no hope of being passably good cooks. They were always adding to much of a spice and they never seemed to notice when they burnt the food. No the Chaos were absolutely bizarre in that respect. So, from a fairly early age, Moofius had had to make her own food and was thus had perfected the skill. It was really fun, really. To make something delicious from all sorts of bits and pieces. Some combination were bizarre to think about but the outcome...?
Her passion for cooking wasn't a secret and she loved to learn new things. A few years back she'd been in the Tengel area and had spent a good amount of time in an old mans herb garden. She didn't remember much from that but two herbs she remembered well. Very specific leaves. She wouldn't touch other spices but those two she knew well and knew how to use them, too.
It took a bit of time and the darkness was awful but she finally figured out where to find them (One was under the low lying leaves of a plant with bright red leaves, the other found among mosses). She brought them back to the fire, sorted out twigs and plants she'd mistaken for the herb in the dark, tossing them aside.
"Going to have to be a bit skimpy..." she murmurred to herself. That was a shame but they'd started late and she was hungry now.
She ripped up the herbs as finely as she could trying to spread them out evenly on the inside of the raw fish before laying them on the flat rock. The fish sizzled happily, the noise rising to a din as the last fish that could fit was placed on the rock.
She got herself a good poking stick so she could flip the fish over and check to see if they were done along with a long, thin stick that she sharpened the end of.
Another fish was deboned chopped up into cubes and skewered along with the mushrooms she'd food. The stick was stuck into the ground, the fish and mushrooms cooking over the fire.
"Ugh... Led, I wish you were more helpful," The gallizar hissed and clicked in protest.
"Yah! Well... It's cooking, anyway!" She wished the snake was more helpful... But then she hated people helping her cook, anyway. So in all reality she would have shooed him away even if he did ask to help.
She still needed to build a shelter of some sort. The Tengel was prone to sudden, violent, rainstorms being a rainforest and all.
"Damn it..."
(( FEAR! For Moofius is cooking! XD;; Enjoy the post? P= ))