Oh no, oh dear, more strangers were showing up. She'd caught glimpses of some of them here and there, but not that...was that a giant snail?! She gulped and cowered back into the ferns, thinking that she might just turn around and run, before she had to talk in front of them, before she had to talk to any of them really, but then Sheng was smiling at her, gesturing forward, and she swallowed heavily again before slowly, tentatively, she stepped out. She could trust Sheng. Right, focus on him. It was okay.

Wings were pressed tight against her back, tense, ready to snap open and carry her away at any second should she need to go, tail curled tightly around one of her legs. Oh, man, was she nervous. She'd never been around more then a few people at once before - and even then, it was just Dad and her sisters. But she could do this. Just breath - in through the nose, out through the mouth. Pretend that she was just talking to Sheng or something. That's right - focus on the thing, not the others around her.

She cleared her throat. "S-so...I have some ideas about the house um..." she reached into the handmade bag she held cluthced tightly against her chest and pulled out a thin strip of bark, showing them the flat side that had a bunch of lines all over it. It looked like the rough shape of a little hut, but it was a little hard to read. "My dad...uh, Attikias? He lives...around here and he made this little...uh, house. And I think I can maybe do what he did? Kind of? It's like..." She handed the bark off to whoever would take it (or just set it on the ground if nobody took the offered drawing) and picked up a stick. She began to draw a rough square.

"So...we wanna make something with walls. To protect against things, you know? And tall. So that we can sit in it." She focused on her little drawing, turning the square into a cube. "But if we just start building up, its gonna fall apart easily. So we gotta make some kind of foundation first. I think branches would work best. Thick ones, or maybe just thin trees. There's a lot of them here in Eridanus, and we'll probably have to clear out some of it anyways to make our house." She jabbed at each of the edges, making the edge marks deeper. "So we build a foundation on each of the corners. And then along the walls," she began making horizontal markings across the cube walls. "And for the roof, we can either curve it or make a roof out of thatch - that's what Dad did." She put two small squares over the top of the hut, making a small pyramid on the top.

"We'll just have to bind all this together. Maybe with magic or some kind of string or plant fibers. And then we fill it in with something. Mud, maybe, or clay? I was thinking we could try and build up with stones in between all the foundations to make it even sturdier and use mud and clay to build around it and seal it in. Or we can maybe mix something into the mud to make it less likely to crumble, since just throwing mud against a hut wouldn't work, I tried making things out of mud when I was younger and they were too weak. Maybe some kind of plant or mineral would do the trick. Sand? Maybe, I don't know, we'd have to try it out. There's a lot of experimenting that's gonna go into this but we can make it work, even if its not the greatest house in the world we can always make more. I mean there's a good number of us and I'm sure some of us can use magic to make things go by faster or make things sturdier. But I've been thinking about this a lot since Sheng invited me to join I mean I was always curious about how Dad made his hut and was always thinking about making my own, I mean that would be so cool, you know, to have a little cave that you made with your own hands? We just gotta work together and we can do this!" She'd completely gone off, almost mumbling, thoughts streaming out of her mouth as she focused wholly on this task and her eyes slowly began to light up with excitement. She looked up at the end, face bright, but then she froze, realizing that she'd just. Completely started rambling. She quickly slapped a hand against her mouth, eyes wide, feeling her cheeks heat up with embarrassment. "Oh I'm...I'm so sorry..."