How Green Becomes Wood

"We've got a step ladder," Daizi said, pushing her hair back with one hand and going to the living room, "This family overcomplicates everything. Ivy, habibti, we're just going to wait until all the boys figure their stuff out."

Sighing, Dark passed his hand over his face and said, "I will get the step ladder."
 
Alec watched them, confused. Why hadn't they tried the stepladder first? And wouldn't Ivy just look up the ladder - because it was new and interesting - and see the person on top? He didn't voice any of those thoughts, more than willing to see what happened next, and went to help Dark with the step ladder.
 
Cooger told Dark to put the stepladder outside so they could then mostly close the curtains, hiding the stepladder and the person holding it. The pole was long enough he could dangle it far enough into the living room that she wouldn't be able to grab the door. This was one of many previous attempts.

"Now I can't see, so y'all gotta tell me how to angle it." Cooger said.

"I can't help you there," Daizi teased, setting Ivy down on the floor.

"Let the line down a little bit."
 
"I won't fall, she ain't stronger than the biggest fish I caught."

Daizi laughed and held her two hands a large distance apart, "Cooger once caught a fish this big."

"No, Spider, it was bigger than that." Daizi increased the distance between her two hands and Dark shook his head, "It was still bigger than that."

"Yeah, that's what she said," Cooger teased right back.

"In front of our children?" Dark asked blandly.

Without missing a beat, Daizi said, "That is disgusting."

"We were discussing the largest fish you ever caught."

"You've only told the story a hundred times."

"I was making sure it was accurate."
 
"You should really be ashamed of yourself." Dark said, shaking his head even though Cooger couldn't see it. Then he sat back and pointed at the jingling toy suspended from a clead line, "Ivy, what is that? What do you see?"
 
Ivy babbled and crawled over to the toy, looking up at it. Sitting back, she reached up with her arms to try to grab at it, but when it was out of her reach, she crawled back first to her father, pulled herself up, and tugged on his sleeve, "Baba!" She said and pointed up at the toy.

"My darling girl," Dark cooed to her, smoothing her hair back with one hand, "Ivy can get the toy herself! Yes she can!"

She tugged on his sleeve again, pointing at the toy, and then when her Baba wouldn't get up, she crawled over to Daizi and did the same thing to her, "Mama! Mama!"

Daizi, at least, told the truth, "Ivy baby, Mama can't see what you want."
 
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