"Just a little something I made for the two of you. I made two of it so that each of you could have one," Mayumi said pouring up two cups of tea and handing one to Goldenscale, "Since he seems to be busy with something, you can have yours whenever you like."

Goldenscale took the tea and wandered into the backroom.  "What is it?" she asked.

"It's a carving of when we all together for the first time," Mayumi said pulling a cover off a table to reveal two near perfect replicas of that moment, "Though I don't carve much anymore, my photographic memory allows me to copy any moment in my past to near perfect detail. I stopped due to seeing my work being disrespected or destroyed each day. Counting these, I only know of three carving that are still unbroken."

Goldenscale looked at the perfect replicas with interest.  "Am I really that small?" she asked.  She knew she was small, smaller than usual, but she didn't realize it until now.  She laughed slightly.

"You more than make up for your size," Mayumi said giving Goldenscale a warm smile, "You have done more in the few days you've been here than any of the other council members, or anyone here. You've managed to get indected into the council, saved Frost, renewed my faith in myself, freed Chiei's soul, retrieved an stolen egg, and whatever else you may have done that I don't know about. I may not be your real mother, but I'm proud of you nonetheless."

She went over to Mayumi and hugged her tightly.  "Thank you.  For believing in me." she said.

"Thank you, for all that you have done," Mayumi said returning the hug, "Why'd you run off earlier though? All I asked was why you were going on about a cure last night."

"Helping others again..." she said with a smile.  "Oh, I better get to work on fining housing measurements.  The council offered me a home.  I didn't know what to do, so I told them I'd get back to them about that.  I plan on using it more for a resort than a living space, well a me sort fliving space, but I need to figure out how tall a willow tree can get.  Also need to figure out how big I need the cave to be."  She sighed.  

"For the willow height, try measuring the one in the center of the cave. It's the biggest one I've ever come across. The most persistant too. No one expected it to thrive since the water sources were a good distance away along the edges of the cave," Mayumi said, "The size of the cave can be as big as you want it. If you're going to use it as more of a resort, the I suggest having three rooms around the same size, but you can have them make it as complicated as you wish it to be."

"It's my resort.  The trees are my resort.  I have the calculations done now.  I also want to try wood carvings, like you, only with animals.  Thank you." she said.  She walked out of the cave and went to the willow tree.  Once she got the correct measurements, she went to the council building.

"Good morning Miss Goldenscale, we don't have any issues this morning, but you're welcome to stay and enjoy coffee and breakfast with us," one of the council members said when they saw Goldenscale.

"I just wanted to say that I know how big I want my cave to be and what tools I need.  But I am intrigued by what this 'coffee'.  What is is?" she asked.

"Good to know you've decided on what your place here in the cave will be like," he said handing Goldenscale a small glass of black steaming liquid, "That is coffee. Drinking it will wake you up a good bit. Some people like it as it is while others prefer to put other stuff into it to take away some of the bitter flavor.Everyone likes it differently. Now, what are the dimensions, and whatever detials you would like?""

She drank some of it, but put it down because it tasted odd to her.  "I want it to be 40' tall,   35' long and 35' wide.  I sort of want half of it inside of the cave, and the other half on the outside.  I don't know where exactly,  it somewhere close to Mayumi's cave.  Surprise me." she said.

"A good section for those dimensions would be directly over Mayumi's home. We would need the construction team to carve a hole into the cave wall and have supports anchored into the cieling and wall, but it could be done," he said putting  some cream and sugar into the cup of coffe and handing it back to Goldenscale, "Here, try it now. It should be less bitter."