Witch's Hut (Cairo II)

Cai gave a startled grunt as the carving clocked him, rubbing the point of impact with a foreleg and giving the carving a reproving look. It’d caught him off guard, but luckily, it’d drawn no blood. He’d just have a bruise at most. It was a curious shape, but he decided to just leave the hut at that point.

He padded from the hut, realizing that it’d gotten darker than he expected—perhaps the swamp just made things feel grim and foreboding. But through the trees, he spotted a glow, and thought, at first, that it might be Aurielle, out on a diplomatic trip. But as he drew close enough to see, Enito cautiously following him, stick at the ready, they came upon a pool.

Cairo stared at the occupants with mild fascination. They were all young, it seemed. He hadn’t noticed the vial’s glow peering from the pouch it was in, but the creatures had, and before he knew it, the vial had been swiped by a young monkey. “Oi!”

Enito missed the hooligan by a hair with a crack of his sapling, and Cai stared at the monkey with a slightly indignant huff as it upended the vial in the pool. “Could I at least have the vial itself back, possibly?”

He wasn’t so upset about the contents, seeing as he’d had no idea what the stuff was in the first place, but the container was still something useful. Shaking his head, he padded closer to the pool and gazed into it, head cocking. There were tadpoles, newborn snakes, and all manner of other infant creatures just lounging in the water. He tipped his head to Enito, quipping, “This is both unnerving and kind of adorable… Think if I hopped in with them, I’d be a pup again? Relive my pup-hood without the colds?”

Enito, eyeing the water, squinted at Cairo dubiously. “If that happened, I’d have to lug you home in my arms, with your armor. You’d better hope that’s not what happens.”

Cairo chuckled softly, shaking his head, then took the plunge and stepped carefully into the pool, gently shooing tadpoles and hatchlings out of his path and settling down into the water.

Cairo Chooses to have a bath. Enito is a smart monkeymonkmonk and stays outside.

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Hear" ---- Think