Night River Cottage

[Nix Night]

If you head out of Nefi village as if you were going to head over the bridge to Giya swamp, there is a small dirt trail a new moments down the path which leads to a very small cottage. The cottage itself is made of stone with a slate room, vines crawling up the sides of the walls and 4 very square but oddly wonky windows across the home. The door is freshly painted, a bright shade of green and there is a stone wall around the front garden which is very clearly in the process of being re-built and looked after.

In the said front garden, there are 2 rows of flower beds in the process of being planted, though right now they only have a few shoots here and there and a lot of small sticks with labels for future plants. There are also a foursome of hand painted gnomes sitting beside the front door, 2 in green, one in orange and one in pale blue.

Entering the home? Pick a room!

Living room

Kitchen

Girl's Room

Oakley's Room

Back Garden

[Nix Night]

Living room

Seeing as this is such a small cottage, theres not exactly a lot of room in the living room. There is a large fire in the middle of the room which is normally lite, Shadow and Kuda the most common pokemon to be found lying beside it most of the time. Nix has set up a small desk to the left of the fire, next to the window so she can work from home now and then and have flying types come to the window to deliver messages or the like if need be. Its normally very messy, though, sometimes Oakley will clean it up to help his mother. 

There are 2 chairs, one large soft which fits the trio of children if need be and is covered in a few soft pillows and blankets made for the group by Ms Kaitos as a housewarming gift. Nix has a chair across from the sofa, though often this is taken by Shadow before her trainer can settle there. There's a small table in the room for food and coffee, though, generally it becomes a mail dump where each family member leaves notes or reminders for the others. 

[Nix Night]

Kitchen

The kitchen of the home is, like the rest of it, not very large. There's a few counters and an oven to one side which allows all of the family to cook meals, or Blaze to sleep on the cooker if he's cold, but theres not a lot aside that. It's easily the warmest room in the house, unless the fire is on, and normally has someone moving around inside either making something to eat or making tea of some sort. 

Small note, there is ALWAYS extra food in the fridge with anything going out of date being offered to the pokemon out the back of the house in the garden. Nix is always very hot on this, though, she doesnt often explain why.

There is a small table in the back which is up against a dresser and the door in to the room but it doesnt quite seat all the family and tends to be only used now and then for breakfasts where Nix will stand and allow her trio to sit down. Each of the three children has a colored plate and matching cup and mug set, Nix having her own in orange and she tends to use these if and when guests coming to the house as they dont have much else to use or the funds to get more.

[Nix Night]

Girls Room

A small room with little room to do much but sleep, the girls room has a pair of beds within it and a few cupboards and such for them to store their things. Most of the time, the duo are traveling and so forth so nix tend's to keep the room tidy, as best she can, but often you can find drawings or books scattered over the beds or floor.

Each bed appears to be color coded, the left and closest to the door with White and Blue bedding and the right with a pale green and white. Often, towels of matching colors will be set on the end of them was washing day, Nix's attempt at not mixing up who owns what. 

[Nix Night]

Oakley's And Blaze's Room

While the name on the door might read Oakley, this is in fact a room for 2. Seeing as the cottage only had 2 bed rooms, it was agreed nix and her son would share one and the girls would settle in the other. Considering nix and oakley are very rarely home together at the same time, they never seem to run in to issue over this and when the pair are, very often nix has fallen asleep down stairs on the sofa so the boy doesnt worry too much.

The bottom bed is Nix's, though used by all who use the room and its not uncommon for nix to come to bed to find blaze curled up in the sheets. The bunk bed above is for Oakley, though again, who uses it is often open to mix and match. The room is covered in Oakleys drawings and pictures of his mother, 2 sisters and Kari as well as Mimi and JJ and a lot of the other pokemon in the boys life. It's hard to find a single patch of space where the dark green walls can actually be seen, aside right next to the main bed where the boy left room for nix to do the same and she has stuck up 3 small photos of each of her children as newborns.

[Nix Night]

Garden

The main reason Nix picked this house was where it was, and the garden around it. The lawn isn't huge as the edges of the fences have given way on one side and allowed the surrounded woods to grow in a little but the wall on the other side has done a little better. There's room for her children to run around and play, their pokemon to do the same and even a small battle if people are careful. It's not uncommon to find wild pokemon in the back garden, considering nix tends to leave out food for them to wave wasting it and the fact she has fixed none of the fences to keep them out. 



Should one follow down to the end of the garden, they will find the beginnings of the river the cottage is named for, though it is small at its beginnings and crossing through the land of the home. Quite often wild pokemon from the swamp swim upstream and end up here, nix has healed a few hurt pokemon and gotten a little used to this happening but mostly its a place for ripley to swim and play and her children to try fishing or meeting wild water based pokemon. 

While not officially part of the home, there is a swimming hole down the water way if one were to step in it and wander all the way down. It took Oakley and Lily to find this place and the duo have since set up rope swings and brought their pokemon down to play here, only telling their mother after a few weeks. Nix has since gone down to the spot and made sure it's safe, removing a couple of falling trees and re-tying those ropes a little stronger but its now a little hidden spot the family use to unwind and play around, or battle in from time to time.