"As soon as the creature is gone." Lamb replies.
Jester chases the apes to get hold of one of these jumpy brain snacks.
Jester tries to pull himself up to the roof, pushing with his hind claws at the wall.
Wolf looks on for a while, and then says "Look little Dragon. This is how!"
Wolf suddenly burst into a blur of speed, and jumps over to the nearby building. He shuts his Jaw over a nearby monkey and rips a chunk of its flesh out.
Jester sits down and blows at his hurting finger. Wolf is so cool. And I am not. he thinks.
Wolf grabs the corpse of the monkey and brings it over to Jester.
Jester violently shakes his head to get the poo off his face.
Then he accepts the limp body. He looks at it. He tries to smash it's head on the roof but only manages to break a shingle. Finally Jester simply takes the apes head in his mouth and tries to break between his jaws like a nut.
Jester spits bones trying to get them out of his mouth with his tongue. He doesn't look as if he enjoys that. Once the bigger parts are out he swallows the rest. Taking a bite from the leg he gets his mouth full of fur. So he starts spitting again. He hands the ape back to Wolf "I think I like fish better."
"Look, Dragon. You have to worry a bit, and then get to the meaty parts." Wolf shows how to rip through the skin and get to eat the flesh underneath.
"But that's a lot better on the large meat thing we chased." Jester replies while he follows with curiosity how Wolf is doing that.
Wolf's bloody snout grins. "Yes, that's why you get one large one, or chase lots of small ones!"
"How do we get off this roof?" Jester asks looking around. As he doesn't want to jump back.
Wolf still digs down on the monkey.
Lamb speaks from the other roof, from which she had been looking at her two companions. "You're the one with wings, little Jester."
She cocks her head to one side and points. "Also, there's a door, right over there."
A door! Jester moves excitedly to find out what's behind. He opens it and walks inside the house.
"A chest!" Jester calls out. He gallops there and checks how to open it.
Jester opens the chest to look inside.
Jester empties the chest by throwing everything out. "Look Wolf a box. Large enough for you to sleep in!"
Wolf sticks his head through the roof-door. "What are you jabbering, little dragon? I need no box to sleep."
"But then we both would have a box!" Jester replies. He can't understand how someone would not appreciate having one.
"I sleep with Lamb, Dragon." Wolf replies
"Lamb, do you want a cozy box?" Jester shouts upstairs.
Wolf looks at Lamb for a moment, then back at Jester. "I don't think she does, little dragon."
Lamb, in the meanwhile, has mostly been looking at the edge of the forest where the large brain-eating creature had come from.
Jester bites the handle and drags the chest along downstairs. Through his gritted teeth he tells "Shen I'll hash two bokshesh!"
Wolf jumps down and decides to assist Jester in any way he can.
After Jester places the chest in their house next to his original chest with Wolf's help he hurries up to the roof again to Lamb. "Can we finish our project now?"
Lamb still stares at the forest edge, looking for any disturbance, before answering Jester.
Lamb turns to the other two, and says "It seems to have left us. Let's go finish our house."
"It's still there, Lamb, waiting for us. It doesn't like chasing."
"But I can still smell it there."
Jester goes back to work enthusiasticly. After a few more hours of crafting and digging everything is finally finished.
Looking at their work Jester asks "Where do we get water now for our pond?"
"We could wait for rain", Lamb muses "but I have a better idea."
She walks outside towards the well with en extra bucket.
"Spirits of the afterlife, I call on thee. Head my words and do my will. Fill this pond with well water."
Before long, the bucket from the well begins to rise, water is poored into the bucket Lamb brought out, and this is then enmptied out into the dug pond. This process is repeated over and over again while lamb ruffles her hands through Wolf's shaggy mane.
Jester is suspicious of this bucket. He sneaks after it and tries to sniff out what it is that makes it move. After a while he gets bolder and stands in the way of the bucket. But the bucket just walks around him.
Lamb giggles. "What are you doing, little Jester?"
"Finding out who carries this bucket." Jester replies.
The invisible servant pours the bucket into the pond. But before going back to the well it asks "Same procedure as last time Miss Sophie?"
On getting a confirmation it walks to the well again stumbling over the dragon and almost falling.
"It's a spirit, Jester." Lamb says. "Someone from beyond the veil. Someone we've taken before."
Jester is taken aback. "Then why don't we let all the spirits you've taken do the work for us? They should be able to do that in no time. Or is that the only one you've taken so far?"
"I've taken many, dear Jester. But spirits deserve their rest as well."