A fox and rabbit trudged across the snow-covered expanse, their breath frosting on the fur of their muzzles. A break in the unseasonal snow clouds allowed the waning moon to starkly illuminate their path.
The vulpine glanced sideways at his traveling companion who was helping him pull a small toboggan. "Seriously Carrots, why is the wood shed this far from the main house?"
Judy turned her head to look at her partner, though the parka hood didn't turn with her. "You could always ask Pop-pop; it's his grand-parents who built the farm."
Nick snorted, then sneezed. "Thanks, but I'll pass. He's asleep, which means he's not alternately hurling insults at me or regaling me with war stories about spreading his seed across the land like an evil plague. Speaking of, I know you're the one who put Kerfluffle-Phtgan up to waking me this morning."
Judy turned back to the path ahead. "And if I was, so what? The kits love you and wanted to be the first thing you saw this morning-"
"By staring at me from a dark corner whispering, 'Gooble-Gobble, Gooble-Gobble, we will make you one of us!'; not the restful vacation you promised fluff. Mark my words rabbit, as you have sown, so shall you reap."
The two stopped in front of the shed door just as the clouds closed in around the moon. Judy planted a stick in the snow to keep their wood trolley from sliding off as Nick opened the shed and ducked inside, standing back up right into a spiderweb. "BLLEEAARGHGH!"
Judy spun to face her partner just as he began frantically dancing about while flailing his arms at the offending arachnid secretions. She grinned and desperately wished she had her phone with her. "Wow Slick, I didn't know you were a Master of Spider-Style Kung-Fu." He shot her a stern look as he finally stopped thrashing and ducked below the webbing.
She stepped in and flipped the light switch for the lone, ancient incandescent bulb. Nick's flailing had bumped the bulb causing it to swing lazily, illuminating both the neatly stacked cords of dried wood and the dozens of spider webs well above rabbit head height.
"You're such a city-slicker." She looked up at the shed's residents. "They're harmless unless you-" The swinging bulb bumped one of the webs causing it's architect to suddenly descend, right onto Judy's nose.
She looked cross-eyed at the spider for one second. "YYEEEAARRGGHH! Gedoffgedoffgedoffgedoff!" Her own Dance-of-the-Nope ended abruptly when the tip of Nick's tail swiped the offending arthropod off of her muzzle. Looking over, Nick's normally smug look was ruined by the cobwebs wrapped in his ears.
"I still say there's no shame in quitting Fluff."
Judy squared her shoulders. "With my brothers watching? Yes there is!" The two then silently set about loading the toboggan with firewood while eyeing the mass of arachnids above them.
Once fully laden, and with the shack closed up again, they began the trudge back to the cheerily lit farmhouse. "No doubt your family heard us in there. What's our story?"
Judy's eyes were locked on the path home. "Axe-wielding Jackalopes." The partners discussed the tale they were going to spin as the moon broke through the clouds again. From between the pieces of wood, several tiny limbs wiggled before retreating deeper into the pile.