Now having outdoor and spare clothes for Aidan checked Mark decided that the playpen needed pillows and a blanket so that Aidan could sleep inside it too. He could easily take the discarded ones from Aidans changed bed, but that would be boring. No, he had another idea and it would add to Aidans torture. Therefore Mark went over into the bathroom where Aidan had his bin for dirty clothes. He took the whole bin with him back to the laptop before dumping it on the floor. He spread one discarded blanket on the floor and didnīt hesitate to sort through the laundry, throwing jeans and towels on the blanket, while underwear and socks lands on a second and shirts on a third pile. When the laundry was separated Mark went over to the closet and took out the clean clothes, throwing them onto the three piles. Finally he dropped one pillow on the sock and underwear pile and the other onto the shirts while the second blanket went on the first one.
While Mark did this Aidan watched him. At first he had no idea what Mark planned but wasnīt all that thrilled to find out. But when Mark started emptying his closet he gained an idea. And it didnīt ease him. If Mark had only taken the clean clothes onto the piles it would had meant the result was something clean, and in combination with his blankets it could only be a new blanket. But with the dirty laundry in between he guessed that like the pacifier and the bib his new pillows and blanket will be smelling, at least to him. And that wasnīt something he needed, so he backed a bit away.
Mark had heard Aidans guess and was near to start laughing. But Aidan didnīt know that Mark heard his thoughts and he didnīt want to give that away for now. So he started typing while grinning.
Before both of their eyes the upper blanket pressed down on the pile, turning everything between the two blankets to stuffing for the new, fused blanket with no opening. The pile of socks and underwear was sucked into the pillow on top of it before the pillow sealed itself shut. The same happened to the shirts with the other pillow. When all clothes had turned into stuffing the blanket and both pillows started shrinking to a more fitting size for the playpen. At the same time they all turned a bright orange color, decorated with some cartoon characters.
After they had finished changing Mark moved over to grab them, putting his nose in to smell on them. "Not to strong, but a fresh scent of forest." With that he brought them to the playpen, dropping the pillows on one side and the blanket to the side of it.
Aidan had believed Marks words more then his former guess and had moved over only to recoil when he smelled them. He looked up at Mark with already new tears forming while thinking: "What have I ever done to you that you are so cruel to me?"
Mark laughed at the baby. "You donīt look happy with your new bedding. I thought you would like the design." Mark then decided to add something with the text input. "The mattress of the playpen smells fitting to the bedding".
Suddenly Aidan noticed that the smell wasnīt only coming from the pillows and the blanket anymore, but was all around him. It took him a couple of seconds to realize that the smell was drifting up from below his feet.
"I thought it should all smell fitting to each other. I like that forest smell that's in the air now. You didnīt Aidan?" Mark said with a grin, fully knowing that to Aidan it smelled more like he had pissed on it and let it dry. He hadnīt want to make them smell like the pacifier and the bib after all. But seeing Aidan inch away into the corner of the playpen to get as much "fresh" air as possible Mark guessed that Aidan wouldnīt sleep with his new bedding, and he didnīt want his baby brother to be freezing. So he switched back to Aidans profile on the chronivac to add something. "When tucked into bedding unable to remove it by himself. Sleeps peaceful in it after some time. Not growing used to the smell. Not crying while in bedding."
He then hit save. Not that he wanted to test it now because he want to change more things Mark just switched back to the neutral text input.