The Tale of the Toymaker and the Dragon

by Alfoals Trottenbauer

X - Homestead

It started raining. Stuffy decided that Snap needed a roof over his head, or he might rot.

She decided she'd get some materials.

She galloped into town.

She looked around for some abandoned house, anything.

She kept searching.

She eventually found a condemned two-story home.

She waited for them to finish tearing it down.

They began to haul the parts off.

"Could I use those pieces?" She requested.

"Yeah. Say, What are you building?" They asked.

"I'm building a house." She answered.

They left the pieces for her.

She took them to the field, bit by bit, one at a time.

She got her tools once again, in the rain.

She started building a frame, hammering the beams with nails.

The rain made things more difficult. She almost slipped a couple times.

The rain stopped, after a full day's work.

It was night now, though she still worked.

She kept hammering nails.

She finally got a frame done. She started giving the frame walls, hammering more pieces together.

The sun rose as she worked.

She finished building the walls.

She started the roofing.

Pounding nails into the sides, she went around the whole building.

The rain started pouring again.

She finished the roof.

She trotted back to look at her work again.

It was more of a large shack than a house, but it would shelter Snap.

She led him into the building.

It was dry inside, Snap shook off all the water.