Ask For Shelter

"Dont you have a cave or a cabin or something to stay in over night?" Jeff asks as he walks towards nearby pine trees and starts to punch them for lumber. At the mention of shelter, tears start to stream down her face. "Every place I have built, the monsters destroy it. I dont have anywere left..."

He stops collecting for a moment and orients himself towards her.
"Jeff Laciter and you can live with me until you can handle yourself."

As if he said nothing, he turns back and resumes his lumber punching. He almost misses the sound of swift footsteps moving in his direction. He turns fast enough to catch Kim as she flies into his arms and embraces him in a surprisingly strong grip.

"Oh thank you! Thank you so much!" Her exclamations are accompanied with sobs of relief into Jeff's chest. Up close, he notices that she is very unkept with wildly growing red hair and an unwashed odour assaulting his nostrils.
"Your welcome but let's get shelter built first, ok?"
Kim nods from her position and releases him from her embrace.

He responds by tossing her a workbench and some logs, "Hold onto those for me and use them when it's time." Kim looks confused but before she could ask what to do with the items, Jeff takes out a wooden pickaxe and a wooden shovel. He wasn't sure how he acquired them but was thankful for having them handy. He digs the nearest hill of frozen dirt and stone, creating a large enough crevice for the two of them to inhabit.

Kim places the workbench down against the leftmost wall of the cave and Jeff nods to her in thanks. He begins to craft with the stone he had just collected:
2 Furnaces, 2 Stone Pickaxes, 2 Stone Shovels, 2 Stone Swords

He places the furnaces next to the workbench and tosses the spare stone tools towards Kim, who takes them gratefully. Jeff motions towards the furnaces, "Do you know how to make charcoal?" Kims eyes gaze slightly towards the floor, "I've seen it done....but I've never done it myself..."

Jeff points towards the logs he had given her and explains, "Put those logs into the furnace with one log in the bottom firebox to light it. The logs will become charcoal and you can use the charcoal to burn the rest of the logs." Kim did as instructed and Jeff smiled at her look of childlike wonder on her face as she watches the furnace make charcoal.

At that moment, a thought occurs to him, "How many players have you come into contact with in this world?" Kim looks sad and distant after the question, "A few...not many...at least no living ones..."

Kim almost jumps as Jeff's hand lands on her right shoulder. She hadn't noticed that he moved at all. She looks up at him as he says, "Rest. Its been a long day for you, I'm sure." He gestures with a smile towards the leafy bedrolls on the other side of the cave, "I made those while you were watching the charcoal."

She nods and crawls towards the other side of the cave, not deigning to remove her damaged armor or discard her bow as she flops onto the bedroll. Jeff felt just as tired but he had to fortify the cave first.