Earthy Delights

With an energetic step and the various footfalls of her imps, Spice happily walked through the hazebloom beds.

She held a large pink basket, lovingly softened by a plush inner cushion, as she bent down every now and then to collect some mushrooms. They were the normal sort of mushroom, but the perfect kind for her boss Sugar to practice some new recipes with. He always was trying to get creative, that’s what she liked most about him.

She turned to her imps after a particularly difficult to pull out mushroom. “My sweeties, could you help me collect some of these?” She pointed at the mushrooms and made a small gesture with her hands, hopefully they all remembered that meant to bring something.

Milk, the mamoo, was the first to set off, the small jiggling of his bell collar ringing as he began to root around in the hazeblooms. Eventually he was able to pull out a mushroom, proudly displaying his prize as he made his way back to his owner.

Spice clapped her hands together, “Good boy!”

Milk glanced at Oven and Romantic Lighting, Spice’s inseparable candyls, and begun to nudge them towards the beds. The candyls looked at each other before following after Milk.

The three of them worked hard to pull out a few more mushrooms, although Romantic Lighting couldn’t help with the digging as they didn’t have a wing like Oven did. Instead, they balanced the mushrooms in between their body and tail to bring back to Spice. Meanwhile Oven and Milk worked tirelessly to dig through the dirt and pull out the mushroom, not a difficult task but not an easy one for small imps.

The trio were able to get six mushrooms by themselves, happily carrying them over to Spice.

Spice smiled brightly, her expression a warm beam of light compared to the dreary weather. “Very good! Oh well have a full basket in no time, just wait until we see Sugar’s face.

Although it seemed her pets were not done helping as they gestured for the rest of her imps to follow: Flour the erose, Eggs the egghel and Fridge the bulbug.

Milk encouraged Fridge to follow him as he decided to pull Eggs up and onto his back, as the egghel couldn’t walk nearly as quickly. Milk and Fridge made quick work of digging up more mushrooms. The bulbug was especially good at using his multiple legs to dig quickly, even hitting into the mushroom stems to get them to release.

Eggs just watched quickly, wiggling in their shell when they were given a mushroom to hold. They couldn’t quite do anything else, but they did seem so very happy to watch the other imps.

On the other side of the imps, Oven and Romantic Lighting were showing Flour the best way to dig up the mushrooms. Oven would dig a mushroom up with his wing and then Romantic Lighting with tuck the mushroom into their tail.

They were both surprised by Flour flying down to grab a mushroom and take it to Spice’s basket. Time would go by much faster that way.

Spice nearly squealed with delight when her pets were done, they even got her a quarter of her basket full.

Although she was quick to stop them from trying to get more mushrooms. “No that’s okay, my little loves, you’ve been hard at work. You should rest and I’ll pick a few more mushrooms.”

Spice couldn’t let her imps work themselves too hard, they were still little pets that should enjoy pet things. She was just happy they cared about her enough to help her with the mushrooms, they truly were her precious little friends.

As much as she’s sure Sugar would tell her she was spoiling them too much, but that was a lot coming from someone she watched sneak extra sweets to his imps.

“Oh! That reminds me, I’ll have to make you some treats with any leftovers. You have all been working so hard.”

Spice smiled to herself as she walked through the hazebloom beds, it was always lovely getting the chance to do something for someone else and it was even better getting to do so with her imps. She truly did have a beautiful life.