Octave had to admit he'd come back at a very awkward time. Noko was perched in her usual spot on his back, resting her chin on her front paws which were resting on his skull. The man still felt like he owed it to Theory to help out before he finally returned Kite's side. But with all the weird shit that had been happening as of late it seemed his journey would be delayed. He had a duty to at the very least offer his services in case something more came of this. Which was perhaps why he was here now...

Octave hadn't failed to notice the clusters of mushrooms popping up all over the place. He had a mind to figure out something about them, he was curious what their effects might be. Which of course he had no way of knowing if they'd be good or bad... Octave moved through the thicket, planting himself near a small cluster that had grown in the shade of a shrub. "What do you think Noko?" He asked, not even sure he should touch one.

Octave & Noko

With so much going on in the pack, and the world at large, Sen found he could barely sleep. Each ‘night’ was endlessly long, and the days short in nature. There always seemed to be a gloom in the air. And was the moon supposed to be visible during the day? He could only shake his head, and keep watch. Wishing for something to dig his teeth into to prove his might to Abaven.

When he found the white wolf examining some sort of weird plant, he found himself coming closer. Sliding up beside the other wolf without much thought to personal space. “Whatcha looking at?” he asked, peering at the shrub, and then finding the glowing mushrooms in its shade. “Huh. neat. Think it's poisonous?” he wondered.

Octave was jolted suddenly by the much too close appearance of one of the younger pack members, a nephew or cousin or something of the sort no doubt, he jumped slightly, violet gaze wide. Noko took a moment, startled herself but recovering much quicker than her lupine companion. "We're not sure." She said and upon hearing her voice Octave seemed to snap to his own senses, nodding in agreement and turning his attention back to the mushroom for another moment. He considered for a moment and then he gently pressed down on the mushroom feeling it bending under his touch. Noko seemed to understand what Octave was thinking and shook her head but addressed the young man again.

"I think Octave is going to test it here, he's going to mash up a bit and put it on his paw and see if it reacts at all." Then she gave the young man a mischevious smile. "You can try too if you want." Octave flashed a glare over his shoulder, more passed the lemur but clearly aimed at her, but well it was too late to take it back now... The offer was out there.

Octave & Noko

The lemur replied to Ru, and the boy turned his attention to the little companion with some surprise. Not many companions spoke, so it always surprised him to hear one. He offered a grin to the companion, and then looked at Octave as the white wolf nodded and then pressed a paw to the mushroom.

At the offer of taking part, Sen eagerly bounded forward, wiggling down beside Octave “Heck yeah, I’m in!” he said, offering up his own paw for testing. Did he think even for a moment about how side effects might be negative? No. He just wanted to take part in whatever was going on.

Of course, the young man wasn't gonna turn that offer down, no surprise there. So Octave breathed a sigh and pushed down harder on the mushroom, squishing it under his paws until it started to split and he kept applying pressure twisting his paw on the now very flattened mushroom under his paw until it was basically a type of mushroom paste. He scooped some up on his paw and gestured with his other one for the other yearling to hold his paw out so Octave could smear a little bit on his paw. Octave frowned how much trouble was he going to get into if it turned out the mushrooms weren't safe... Or the boy was himself specifically allergic to them?

Octave & Noko

Octave

As you squish the mushroom down into a thick paste, you feel it almost struggling to escape your suffocating grasp. How strange.

Maybe you shouldn't have done that...

Without any consideration to the dangers, Ru was happy to join in with whatever his - cousin? - was doing. Hands outstretched he watched as the white wolf touched a mushroom with a paw, flattening it beneath his floof, and squishing it into a paste. Ru watched very closely, fascinated with what was going on.

When Octave gestured, Ru scooted a little bit closer, and held out his paw, allowing Octave to smear a little on the pad there. With the goopy mushroom on his skin, he looked at it this way and that, curious to see if it did anything. He leaned a little closer, breathing in the aroma of the mushroom.

Senryū

The mushroom paste is cool on the skin of your paw pads and for a moment nothing happens then... You feel heavy very suddenly, as if it's sucked all your energy from your body. Your limbs go weak, the forepaw with the mushroom on it going limp and you suddenly feel very strongly like you should wipe the mushroom off!

“Woooow” Sen whispered, as he looked down at the mushroom on his paw. He could feel himself suddenly growing heavy, his eyes blinking slowly. Man, that was some weird stuff. Was this what it was like to get high? If so, he wasn’t sure he liked it. His paw holding the mushroom hit the ground, and he felt like he could barely move it. He grabbed a handful of grass with his other paw, and began to wipe the mushroom gope off his paw.

The movements were slow and a little erratic, as tired as he was suddenly feeling. He blinked very slowly again, letting out a soft, tired sigh. Hmm. would his cousin be upset if he curled up right then and napped beside the other wolf?

It Continues for Senryū...

Huh? It doesn't seem like anything happened... Well, maybe that's for the best...