Perhaps it was a blessing that followed the great hardship; they discovered a small lake that had not yet dried up when the water bucket in Si Yan's space was empty.
The three cubs, starving and parched, started rolling around in the lake, while Si Yan refilled her own water bucket. Then she found some wood and carved a few more small buckets to stuff into her space.
Afterward, Dongchi, with cheeks slightly flushed and obviously embarrassed and coy, said to Si Yan, "Naughty female... I want this."
He pointed to the beast skin skirts of Xi Qing and Bei Ji.
Si Yan held back her laughter and said, "Alright, wait for Mother to hunt a Long-eared Beast."
Dongchi then pointed to the side where, by the base of a large tree, lay two Long-eared Beasts that had already been processed. "They're there, all done."
The pelts of the two Long-eared Beasts weren't very intact, but they were sufficient to make two little beast skin skirts for the cubs.
