Within the Cage

Since we’ll be using the stove to cook, it looks like she bought some firewood, but if we’re boiling water for a bath, too, I think we won’t have enough.
It would probably be better to chop some logs than to walk around picking up branches, but I don’t have the strength to swing an axe around. That would be a bit scary, too.
If I can get Tsudzura-chan’s help, it probably won’t be hard to gather a bunch, and like they say, “the shortest way around is the longest way home.” And “many a little makes a mickle.”

Kei: Okay!

Sakuya: Kei, where ya going?

Kei: Mm. I won’t be long.

I’ll have to leave the kekkai, but it’s still plenty light out, so it should be okay.

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