The two followed Kevin around to the front of the farmhouse. Something about the amazed and fascinated expression on the aardwolf's face left Theo feeling very warm and fuzzy inside.
"Whoa! It's so big!" Kevin thought aloud.
Discarding thoughts of how small it really was, Theo only smiled proudly. "I built it myself, you know."
"You did? How long did it take?"
"You have much time when you're immortal."
The inside, however, was a touch more cluttered. Books, hardcover ones ranging from recent to a thousand years old, were piled up around the entrance and into both the spare bedroom to the left of the entrance and the kitchen to the right of it. The fireplace was directly across from the entrance, its lack of fire coating the room in inky blackness. Worse yet, it was dusty; only Theo knew how long it had been since he last visited, let alone cleaned.
Hasan rubbed his arms as he browsed the rooms, pulling them in under his clothes as best as he could. "Theophrastus, my friend, are you getting that fire ready?"
"Theo?"
Kevin walked into the spare room to find Theo fast asleep, a pile of messy fur and purple fabric sprawled out across the bed, one foot hanging off the edge. He'd sat down when no one was looking and promptly passed out. After all they'd been through together that day, it felt wrong to wake him.
A small chunk of strange, glowing orange crystal had been left on a side table adjacent to a large, upholstered chair opposite the fireplace. Kevin picked up the crystal, his mouth open slightly as he felt its warmth lick his hand like harmless little flames to the touch.
"Fire crystallum," Hasan told him. "Excellent firestarter."
Leaning into the fireplace, Kevin scraped it on a log that'd been forgotten about inside. The pile went up in flames in seconds. Feeling its warmth grow on his paws, Kevin fell back into the chair, resting his eyes, the smell of the roasting wood filling his nose.
It would be some time before either stirred again.
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