Chapter 23 - Don't play outside in the snow, please! part 2

"Snow! snow! It's snowing!"

Yells ayumi with a big smile looking through the half-open door of the hut

"what!? are you for real!?"

Exclaims Luke trying to take a peak through the door. Hiraku, on the other hand doesn't look excited at all.

"What's wrong dear? you don't look happy"

"Don't you know what this means? It's winter already and we haven't finished the construction yet"

"perhaps it was too ambitious to try to build two cottages at the same time" says helena

"Hey wait a minute, let's see the positive side, one is almost finished"

Bob intervenes looking at the scenery outside through the crack in the door above Ayumi and luke. Hikaru approaches and slams the door shut.

"Hey! I was still watching!"

Although they tend to keep busy during the day, at night there's not much they can do. Now that they have a fireplace they can heat the interior and they have a light source, even so, the night hours are usually long and boring for everyone. Especially for Ayumi, who usually s