I want to touch you but my fingertips are numb

I want to love you but my chest is tight enough

One of her sons had taken an interest to herbs. Something about it delighted her, but it also felt wrong to simply be happy just because of that. After all she was already excited getting to know them. Most of her children were quiet, not timid, but observers. She had been a bit like that when she was a pup she remembered. It wasn't until she turned into a yearling she became far more active. Social or not it didn't matter. Carefully she had laid a few herbs out on a leaf. Wolfsbane, and Wintergreen that she had been lucky enough to have brought over from her trips from Habari. Then the lavender and the honey she had placed on another.

"Phantom can you come here for a moment?" Voodoo called out as she approached the den nearby. She preferred the pines over the ship, even if most of their things came from it. She was hoping Phantom wasn't already out and about. She wanted to teach him something.... although unsure if teaching her child about a severely poisonous plant was a good idea. But hey.... if they knew now there would be less of a chance of them poisoning themselves in an experiment.

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He hadn't been doing much other than organizing and cleaning up a corner of one of the den spaces they shared in the Pines. So when his mother called for him, his curiosity was piqued. He turned his head around, ears tilting towards her voice before he got up and moved to join her. Head tilted slightly with curiosity, dark eyes seemingly void of life as he approached her. "Yes, mother?" His gaze fell on the herbs she had laid out in front of her, and immediately his attention was drawn to them, a slight wag of his tail offered for no more than a heartbeat as he moved to sit before her, the herbs between them. "What are these?" "Phantom"