"Mae, wake up, we're coming up on the place." Said Bea. "Huh? Wha?" Stuttered a very, very tired Mae, who only fell asleep about 15 minutes ago. When Mae looks out the window she can see a little mountain town, tucked away from the world, yet still fairly modern. She can see shops, homes, even a little school. It's the only thing other than the two ski resorts in this little C as Mae calls it. The reasons she calls it this is because the mountain bends around creating a C shape. The two ski resorts at each side, the town at the entryway, a lake with rental homes (and the lodge) in the far back and dense forest filling the gap. As the two travel along they eventually reach their destination, Lake sneeuw kus. The house is on the lake near the back, pretty excluded from most of the rental homes for skiers and hikers.
The two pull up to the place and Mae examines her new home. It's a very large house, made out of that plastic siding that is supposed to look like wood. The house is built on a small slope facing the lake, so the back of the house is fairly bland and lacking, as only people going to the house will see it. They unload and drag their stuff inside. They head down a hallway, along the sides are doors to other rooms. Three Bathrooms, a supply closet, an actual closet and a laundry room. "Hello? anyone home?" shouts Mae. "Yea! Just come on in!" Says a voice down the hall. The two proceed down the hallway a bit more before eventually coming out to the main living room. It is both as large as it is open. Its has two brown sofas centered around a table in front of the fireplace. There's also a wooden rocking chair facing the massive glass window showing off the lake. Behind the living room is the kitchen, moderately sized and with another table for eating. The stairs are up on the wall and go up and down, Mae can see the loft overlooking the Living room and the smell of chlorine coming from the basement. A Husky walks down the stairs towards the two. "Hi, names Andrew. You two are the new guys right? Uhh Mae and Bea?" Says Andrew. "Yea thats us, quite the setup you got here." Says Bea. "Well when you have eight people living in the same house it needs to be pretty big. Everyone but me is out right now, they should be back soon. In the meantime you two should go unpack. Bea your room is downstairs. First door on the left. Mae yours is upstairs all the way down on the end. I'll be down here when you're done." Says Andrew.
Mae quickly "unpacks" (basically just throws her stuff everywhere in hopes it lands in the right spot.) and heads down to the basement to check it out. She walks down and sees that it's pretty much another full blown story to the house. She spots a pool table and looks outside to see a hot tub on the deck outside. Next too the pool table is a TV and another couch. Further down are a few more rooms, one of which is Beas, she just forgets which one. She heads upstairs and plops down on one of the sofas. Andrews walks over and sits on the other sofa. "The others went out to town to get stuff and bring back pizza for us all to eat. Tomorrow is our first official work day so we're gonna celebrate the start of a new season." Says Andrew before opening a soda. "I thought you didn't start blowing snow for like a week?" Says Mae. "True, but we have to make sure everything's in order before we do so. Which means for me Setting up the cashiers, wifi, updating the website and other fun stuff. You're our new mechanic gall right?" Says Andrew. "Yea. Do you know what exactly i'll be doing?" Says Mae. "You'll be checking the snow guns and making sure they work. Also doing repairs on the Snow cats if needed. Also other stuff." Says Andrew followed by Bea coming upstairs and raiding the fridge. "So like, do we all share food and stuff here?" Says Bea, eying a large pitcher of iced tea. "Yea pretty much. We take a bit out of everyone's paycheck and use it as the house food fund. General rule is don't be a dick and eat something that is totally someone else's." Says Andrew. "So it's like little communism?" Says Bea. "No, because we have bread." Says a female polar bear (in a heavy russian accent) coming downstairs. "Sasha, I thought you went out with the gang?" Says Andrew. "No I was in my room watching those videos I found on Toby's computer and also m-" Says Sasha before being interrupted by Andrew. "Ok ok we get it! Sasha do you remember the talk we had about "cultural differences" a while ago?" "Oh you Americans and your stupid sensitivity to these things! We all do it yes?" Says Sasha followed by silence for a bit then a car pulling up the driveway.
5ish minutes later.
"So you're the newbies huh?" Says a badger. "Yea, my names Bea and that one over there is Mae." Says Bea. "Good to meet you two. My name is Erik, That one over there is Andrew, then Toby, Sasha, Ray and Talis. We are what's known as the Spine crew, we all are responsible for one major thing or managing something at the resort. Other people work there yes, but we are basically the ones that will get yelled at if anything goes wrong." Says Erik. "Andrew is our tech guy, Erik is the general manager, Toby is in charge of rentals and ski school, Sasha is our head groomer, Ray is in charge of the food court, me and you are our general mechanics and Bea is our stock managers." Says Talis, grabbing another slice of pizza. "Oh ok I see. Wait, how exactly do we get to work?" Says Mae. "Well you can either carpool with someone or walk down, I'll show you the path 'morrow mornin alright mate?" Says Toby. "Alright yea, sounds good!" Says Mae. The group then goes on to talk about random stuff throughout the night till about 10ish. And I mean random stuff, somehow they started on whether skiing is better then snowboarding and ended up on If combine harvesters can harvest soy, which required multiple google searches. After a while, everyone leaves the living room eventually and heads to bed. Everyone but Mae and Bea.
"And then there were two." says Bea. "Yup... You wanna go up on the roof?" Says Mae. "Its freezing, no, below freezing and is probably covered in ice which we could fall off of and die." Says Bea. "So…" says Mae. "Yea, lets do it" Says Bea. She then heads out onto the deck and climbs up onto the roof followed behind by Mae. The two get to the highest point on the roof and look at the lake. It's cold, very cold. Yet it feels good. The moonlight shimmers off the frozen lake, reflecting onto the surroundings. The two can make out one of the ski resorts with night skiing off in the distance. A lone light in a literal forest of darkness. "Holy crap." Says Bea. "What is it?". Says Mae. "We just...did this. Dropped everything and changed our lives. It's just like…I don't know." "What do you mean?" Says Mae. "I don't know it just feels like yesterday we were in the mine, or fixing that lady's furnace, or-" "Its alright, I feel the same way. But hey, I guess life just does that huh." Interrupts Mae.
The two sit there for a while. Not speaking. Just absorbing the actions they just did that resulted in the new lives they suddenly so quickly thrust upon themselves. Eventually Bea gets up and goes back to her room. Mae stays. A little bit of snow starts to fall. She doesn't know how long. Realizing she has work to do tomorrow she gets up to leave, and before she heads inside she swears she saw a light quickly flicker on and off somewhere in the woods.
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Sorry about the delay things have just been busy. Anyway i'm trying a few new things. First of all if you haven't joined the Night In The woods amino app you should totally do so. Its a great community and i can't recommend it enough. Second im going to develop characters more that you guys recomend, so either vote in the poll on Amino I will be making or msg me. Third is im gunna be doing end out sounds to well put you in the vibe i'm trying to set. This chapter's song is Lightning Tent by Wildlife.
