Maya watched from the sidelines as he kept trying amd gave a synthetic smile and united her hair letting it fall down and moved closer "im sorry it not working at the moment" she said and placed at hand on his shoulder at least the kitten and cat and casey was safe and sound

"No," he muttered, not giving up just yet. He continued try to strike it. "It has to work. It has to."

Maya watched him unsure what she should say so instead she said nothing but sat down on the ground and pucked up her kitten and cuddled her and closed her eyes and let out a sigh and stroked the kitten. Maya wounded if she should locate a collage and greatly improve it and buld up defences or build separate houses for her and casey giving them more freedom without worrying about waking up the other.

He didn't give up. He relentlessly kept striking the flint and steel. Eventually, he gave up and slumped against the nearest thing that was tall enough. "No. I was so sure it was real...Or maybe we did something wrong!" He started to inspect the whole set up

Maya watched and frowned and glanced away and closed her eyes "casey i......" she said but stoped she knew it be paointless he never listen to her maybe they could try agaun another time and continued to pet her kitten "casey its not working and we did it all right, if you wnat ro build more than go ahead ill cook something for us to eat" she said softly

Casey's shoulders slumped, tilting his head back towards the sky, not wanting to give up yet. He should have known it wouldn't work. He should have known. His jaw was clenching and relaxing, his hands in fists at his sides

Maya stood up and walked over towards him her blue eyes not leaving his body and nervously she hugged him from behind her arms around his chest and pressed her face to his back "I'm sorry casey, at least we tried and we survived the nether" she said and slowly let him go. Maybe it was a good thing everyone is safe and sound ahe hate to lose him

A small blush spread across his cheekbones and the bridge of his nose. "Yeah, I guess so." He was still disappointed about Herobrine deciding not to show, but at least for the moment his mind was elsewhere

Maya smiled and her eyes widened at his blush but shrugged it off assuming that his face was red with anger "come on lets go home, i need to bath the cats and might need your help as they wont like, also im covered in dust and ash form the nether" she mused and wrapped her arm around him "i bet it cant be hard to build a bath or shower" she said

He nodded. "Okay. Let's go then." He put an arm over her shoulders, not quite romantically, just in response to her putting her arm around him