The furnishings appeared to have been selected with function over form. Even allowing for Dale’s tastes to be different than her own, there was a strange, almost illogical mix of hard and soft, of temporary and durable. The table and the ice chest were both made of stronger materials than the domehouse and pavilion, for example, and the bag of food held by a rope in the tree was obviously a short-term storage solution: anything that wanted the food would cut or gnaw through the rope.