The girls and Doma went to the middle of the lake in the oasis city so that Sophia could use her magic to measure its depth. Arriving there, Maya anything but liked it, though. It was so deep that she soon was unable to reach the bottom, which made it look like they were floating over a spooky and bottomless pit. To make matters worse, there was something sparkly deep inside the hole that made the cat-girl even more nervous because it seemed like the blonde knew what this something was, implying that it had magic and might even be alive.

  “I can’t believe they forgot about us!” On the morning of the following day, Steph's pouty voice could be heard through the cottage. “I wanted to see the night-time desert!”

  “I’m okay with it.” Chloe, who sat next to her on one of the sofas in the living room, smiled at the dog-girl. “Yesterday was rather tiring, so I would’ve been too exhausted for exploring, anyway.”

  "That is true. I also slept like a baby, but it's still not nice that they didn't even come to ask if we wanted to take a look!" It didn’t make it much better for her.

  “Actually, that’s true!” Thinking about it for a moment, the fox agreed with her. “Ari said to get us once it turned dark and cold. Do you think something happened?" Her expression became concerned.

  “You do remember who we’re talking about here, right?” Steph stared at her. “The only thing that could happen to that group is them having so much fun that they forgot about us!”

  “How rude!” The concerned expression immediately disappeared again. “Suddenly, I don’t feel bad anymore that we had sex in their beds yesterday!”

  “Exactly!” Steph nodded a few times. “Well, I never felt bad about the second part, but still! In fact, we should do that again right now to really show them!”

  “Good try.” Chloe slowly shook her head while looking at them.

  “I had to use the chance.” There wasn’t a shred of guilt inside the dog.

  “I applaud your enthusiasm.”

  “Ehehe~.”

  “Anyway, seeming as if it will be another day just with the two of us, what do you want to do today?"

  “Hmm~.” Her expression turned mischievous.

  "Besides having sex all day." Chloe had a hunch about why her expression changed and rolled her eyes in return.

  “Ah.” She hung her head. “Fine…”

  "Oh, didn't you want to make an arctic biome? Let’s use this chance of not having to deal with the cold-hating cats and start with that!”

  “Antarctic.” Steph smiled at her arctic fox.

  “Come on, you don’t want to recreate the area of my origin?!” Chloe started pouting. “Huskies, which you very obviously borrowed at the very least your tail and temperament from, also originate from arctic regions! All the good stuff comes from there! Let’s go and create our home together!” She stared at her with big eyes.

  “For me being the dog here, you sure have gotten good at making puppy eyes.”

  “I’ve learned everything that is to learn from you~.”

  “One really can’t say no to you.” Steph smiled at her. “Well, we might as well. Overall, the arctic is a nice place with more animals and vegetation, anyway. The main reason I wanted to go for the antarctic is because I like penguins.”

  “Hmm.” The fox hadn’t expected such a cute reason. “I mean, if it’s made by us, it doesn’t need to be logical in terms of flora and fauna. Let’s make the best of both worlds, penguins included!”

  “Yay~!” The dog-girl happily clapped her hands. “Okay, let’s go!”

  “Gladly!” An excited Steph was her favorite Steph. “Let’s head to the place Sophia reserved for my future biome. We already have a portal that leads there, and we’ve been continuously filling the area with magic all day long the last few weeks. There’s so much raw magic for us to play with that you can’t even see a millimeter in front of you because the particles are so dense!”

  “Perfect!” She liked the sound of that, and the couple immediately headed out to play.

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  “Woah, there’s even more raw magic than I remember!" Arriving at the place, Chloe wasn't sure where to look because no matter the direction, her entire vision was filled with the pink and purple sparkly magic particles.

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  “I can’t even see you!” Steph, who was right next to her, stared in the direction of where the fox was supposed to be.

  “I don’t think we can do anything like this, can we?”

  “Being able to see would be highly beneficial.” Even though no one could see it, the dog nodded a couple of times. “Is there a way to turn the particles down?”

  “That’s a good question.” Chloe sounded unsure about it. “In the past, it never had been an issue because natural levels of magic are either invisible or a few particles here and there at best. Even in Mira’s domain, it’s usually not an issue. Here, though, where we can do whatever we want, it has become rather overwhelming.”

  “That’s putting it lightly, too.”

  “I remember Sophia complaining about the same before, so I doubt she could help us with that, either.” The fox gave it some more thought. "Well, I'd say the only one who'd know for sure is Mira. She’s enjoying her time with Feyfey too much, though, and I don’t want to interrupt them.” She paused for a second. “For various reasons.”

  “Do you think you’ll have a new sister soon?” Steph just had to do it.

  “You did not just say that just now?!” She couldn’t believe her. “We’re talking about my parents here!”

  “Too much?”

  “Kinda!” Even though it was impossible to see it, Chloe was currently glaring at her.

  “It would be adorable, though! Your little sister, that is.”

  “If you don’t stop this topic, there will be no sex for a month.” Her voice turned cold. “Trust me, I know how to take care of myself if I really have to, so I’ll easily last that long to teach you a lesson.”

  “So, how do we solve the issue of not being able to see?” Steph instantly dropped the conversation.

  “I’m not sure.” The fox scratched her cheek. “Oh, how about we try and move the particles above us so that we have some room to breathe and see?”

  “Sounds like a plan to me!” The dog-girl liked the idea. “How, though?”

  “Not a clue.” Chloe hadn’t thought that far yet.

  “Hmm… How abo- HUWHWAR?!” Steph suddenly started screaming out of nowhere.

  “What’s wrong?!” Because she couldn’t see her, the fox also immediately started panicking after hearing her scream.

  “S-Something touched my shoulder just-, huh…?” The dog-girl stopped mid-sentence when she heard the characteristic chirping of a certain bird coming from her shoulder. “Blu?” Hearing its name, the chirping only got more playful before Steph felt something rubbing against her cheek.

  “Ohh!” Hearing the chirps, Chloe also calmed down. “You scared me, Steph.”

  “I am so sorry!” Her voice was overflowing with sarcasm. “That’s much worse than the three heart attacks I just had.”

  “Okay, fair.” The fox couldn’t really blame her for the reaction she had.

  “Blu, please don’t ever surprise me like that again.” Steph then focused on Blu on her shoulder, which she still couldn’t see, thanks to the magic particles. “Also, if you aren’t Blu and just stole the voice of our favorite bird, I’ll use the entire raw magic around us to light everything on fire!” The thought of it being an imposter spooked her even more.

  “It would be perfectly justified, too.” Chloe agreed with her.

  In response to that, the particles around them suddenly began to move and turned into a swirl around the girls. It increased in speed for a little while before eventually moving away from the two to form a small magic-free dome around them.

  “Much better!” Steph immediately felt a lot more comfortable before she slowly turned her head to glance at her shoulder. “Good, it really is Blu!” Hearing its name, the parakeet rubbed its head against the dog’s cheek again.

  “Phew!” The fox-girl also looked relieved. “Well, that was a lot easier than I had thought.” She took a look around them. “I never would’ve thought to just use air magic to push the particles away from us.”

  “True.” Steph nodded. “It’s already starting to close in on us already, though.” She noticed how the dome around them was shrinking. “We still have to think about something more permanent.” After she said that, both girls stared at the blue bird, who quickly raised its wings a little as if shrugging.

  “That would’ve been too easy, huh?” Chloe had hoped that Blu would help them some more.

  “Well, how does the saying go? Nothing’s more permanent than a temporary fix!” The dog-girl smiled at her. “I mean, for now, we can just use some wind every now and then while using up the magic.”

  “I guess that works for now.” She nodded in return.

  “Let’s go!” Steph energetically raised her arm high in the air. Seeing how motivated she was, Blu, who was still on her other shoulder, tilted its head while looking at Chloe.

  “Do you want to know what we’re planning?” She tried to guess the reason for the bird’s reaction, who nodded in return. “We want to create our own polar-region biome with many meters of snow and ice, as well as massive mountains covered in ice. Fitting flora and fauna would also be amazing! It should be so cold and icy and snowy that our cats would pass out just thinking about it!”

  Hearing that, Blue froze for a moment before flapping its wings and taking flight. The bird then flew into the magic particles and instantly disappeared from sight.

  “I don’t appreciate that Blu’s on the side of our cats.” Steph didn’t like the reaction.

  “Yeah.” The fox-girl nodded. “Though, to be fair most birds, parakeets definitely included, actually aren’t made for the cold.” She could still understand why it flew away.

  “Oh?” A few seconds later, Steph started smiling again because Blu suddenly returned. “Eh? Huh? How? Why? Wait, what…?” The dog-girl then proceeded to get quite confused when she noticed that the parakeet was wearing a tiny green scarf around its neck as well as an equally colored beanie on its head before landing on her shoulder again.

  “That’s so cute!" Chloe liked the look, and Blu nodded a few times while happily chirping.

  "No, that's… Okay, that's true, but why?! More importantly, how?!”

  “I wonder if Sophia had winter clothes for Blu in the storage area of her domain."

  “Why would she?!”

  “I don’t think, from my experience so far, that there’s anything she doesn’t have in her storage.”

  “I hate how you’re probably right about that.” Steph could follow her logic. “Still, a bird shouldn't be able to put them on themselves!”

  “I don't know, Blu’s pretty clever.” Chloe smiled at the parakeet, who nodded even more extensively in return.

  “…” The dog-girl gave up.

  Afterward, they took a small break because Chloe wanted to cuddle with the dressed-up parakeet for a little while before the trio began planning out their biome.

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