a-hunting we will go!
06-09-2019, 06:40 PM
"Oh," she murmured, taken aback by Lament's description of the creature's wounds. They sounded awful, especially for a thing so small. "No... no, I can fix it," Eris said quickly. On her way through the prairie, she had scented yarrow and meadowsweet. A quick poultice may help ease the poor thing's pain until she could get it to somewhere with better options. Without waiting for input from Lament, Eris set her nose to the ground and tracked the two herbs that she had mentioned. Luckily, they were relatively common to this area, and it didn't take too long to locate a good selection of both. Eris gathered it up and gnawed it into a poultice as she returned to her brother and the injured ferret. Upon her return, she rested the poultice on the ground nearby and set about cleaning the wound. She was careful with her tongue, and the creature didn't complain much. It writhed a bit in pain, which worried her more. "I won't hurt you, I promise," Eris whispered, applying the poultice after the wound had been cleaned. The ferret was incredibly weak now, but she wasn't ready to give up. "Lament, could you carefully move it and set it on my shoulders?" Eris asked, turning in the direction of his scent. "Maybe we can get somewhere with better herbs... or, I have a few things I've collected back at the den," she murmured, pondering the situation. "What do you think?" She asked her brother. As if in response, the ferret gave a tiny squeak, the first positive noise she had heard. Eris' ears pricked and she smiled. "Speech." Ademic
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