“Sunset? Are you alright? You have been looking at that Apple for the last five minutes,” at this point in their adventure, the voice of her companion had stopped being nostalgic, in the sense that it sound the same as another friend and has become an important part of her life. Sunset vaguely wondered what she will do once they got back to the human world, but that still seemed too far away considering the things they were doing right now, mainly just getting wood and seeds. And apparently also apples considering the red round object currently in her right hand.
“Nothing, is just, well; it reminds me of a friend.”
“Do you mean the one with the hat? I know is a cowboy hat, but I never really learned much about them, I think my dad knows, he kind of likes country and all that,” At Sunset’s confused look, Twilight shrugged slightly.
“I don’t know how should I take that, but really, Applejack is more into jazz than country.”
“Wait, really? I mean, she looks so… well, you know.”
“So stereotypically country it hurts every time she talks? I know, but that’s Applejack for you, apparently her family came from Nashville, I think she still has family there. No, AJ prefers blues and soul, that’s why she learned how to play the bass,” blinking a few times, the two teenagers took a look at each other, as if asking how they had arrived at that topic “anyway, it reminded me of my friends, but that was just part of it,” Sunset began to explain to her friend as she took a bite into the red apple. It was juicy and hard enough to make the perfect sound at each bite; there was no mushiness or bitterness, just the perfect apple that reminded the redhead of the great samples AJ usually brought them every time her family brought a new product.
“After all this I’ll never take apples for granted, that or I’ll get sick of them.”
“Never tell that to AJ, but like I said, I am worried. Sure, the apple is great food, sadly we need more than just that. We need more nutrients, we need fresh water, we gotta find ourselves another source of food and drinks,” Sunset took a look at the wooden platform they called home now, almost sterile in its purity. The wooden planks had a nice look, enough that already Sunset was thinking in way to use those planks they were getting and making them into a house. So far, she had been experimenting with planks and oak wood and already had found new ways in which to mix them in her small portable table, enough to find a way to create a transmutation table with nine spaces on it, wooden chests, fences, doors, slabs and stairs.
After a couple of minutes, Twilight pretty much gave up on the idea of creating a house, probably thinking that they would be okay on a wooden box, completely symmetrical and lifeless. Sunset may not be an interior designer or an architect, but she was not going to let Twilight deprive her of a modest house.
“I know that, but how exactly are we going to get water? I think we can use the apples we have, but I’m not sure how we will create apple juice with them.”
“Or cider, but I’m pretty sure we’ll find a way to do it. Look, so far we found out how to create more trees and even dirt,” the redhead pointed at the open barrels sitting behind Twilight. Already the book had become invaluable, giving Sunset and Twilight enough tips to find out that saplings could only grow in dirt blocks, now, here they were, taking the extra saplings and putting them on the blocks, just so they will decompose and create more dirt. It was amazing how one process could guide you into another. The scientific minds of both teenagers were working with theories, hypothesis and ways in which to use that idea, but right now they must think about their own survival and water was very high up there.
Around them, spread amongst the north side of their camp, or at least that’s what they hoped was the north, there were already several oak trees and saplings, showing their green foliage and their bark, which were simply beautiful and beyond useful to both teenagers.
“I guess, but beyond some kind of miracle, I don’t think we will find how to create water out of nothing,” the girl with glasses said, already giving up on her usual bun hairstyle, letting her dark hair flow down. Looking at the long hair, Sunset also reminded herself that her own hair had begun to feel icky. The search for water from both teenagers was not only fueled by their need to drink to keep on living, but a more mundane need of taking a shower, or at least to clean themselves. So far they had been two whole days trapped in the dimension, alone in a void and Sunset already felt grimy enough to deserve a shower. As days went by, Sunset knew that sooner or later their bodies will get too dirty to concentrate or be comfortable, but it was too unhygienic and neither had the luxury of going sick.
“Maybe not, or maybe we won’t have to look for a way, let’s just wait a bit, shall we, maybe we'll be lucky for once,” Sunset knew she had just jinxed herself by saying something like that, then she heard Twilight scream and knew she shouldn’t have said that “Twilight, what happened?”
“WHAT IS THAT?!”
“Ah, I think it is a silkworm… wait, a silkworm?” the small creature was quietly staying in place, just a white little thing, a marvel of nature and also the source of one of the world’s greatest fabric “how did you get this?”
“I was just cleaning the tree of leaves, you know, with the crook!” In Twilight’s hand there was the instrument, almost stereotypical in looks, but useful once they realized that it helped them get even more saplings and apples than by hand itself. With enough strength it could cleanse a whole tree in seconds.
“So, that means we can get silk? But how? I think I know how. So far, everything in this world seems to have some usage or an interaction in this world,” as she said that, Sunset took a hold of the small worm and placed it among another tree’s leaves, quickly changing color making Sunset smile, but before she could say something to her friend, the sky decided to make their lives a little less difficult, letting down a downpour of water. Sunset’s smile grew as she and Twilight enjoyed the rain.