Sunburns are Aloe

Kotori · (This post was last modified: 11-02-2020, 02:19 PM by Kotori.)

Kotori was unhappy. The small pup had played hard and didn’t want to travel all the way back to the den for a nap. After rolling about in a patch of grass, kicking up some of the dirt and blades of grass nearby he had finally made for himself a comfortable place for a nap. Secure in the knowledge no one would ever dare hurt him on pack land he lay down, belly pointed up to the sky to take a nap. He had woken up some time later with the sun still in the sky but an unwanted itch and stining feeling on his tummy. Lifting his head up to try and look Kotori ended up twisting his body around so that he rolled over onto his side on accident. Once on his side though the small brown pup was able to see how his belly had turned a bright red from a sunburn.

His belly approved of not facing the sun now but as he got up Kotori realized that as the legs moved it somehow managed to affect his red belly so that it hurt. The pup wasn’t use to the concept of pain and didn’t care for it much at all. A keening whine came out as he moved a few more steps then stopped again. He remembered Io mentioning sunburns to them and that there was a plant that could help. Somehow he doubted she had planned on them needing to use this knowledge so soon. What really sounded good right now was water though, surely water would be cooland relief the sting? Io had said some type of plant ‘alo..something’.

With slow wincing steps the pup made his way along in the grass, small enough that it was easy to be invisible in the deep grass. Stubbornly Kotori decided he wouldn’t cry for help but fix it himself, though with each painful step he questioned his own logic. A soft whine came out every few strides but he didn’t call out. The brown pup was sure someone would be near to save him but wouldn’t it be more impressive if he fixed it himself? Would his sisters tease him if he needed saving? As a boy he had to be tougher than his sisters, it was required.

So the plant was suppose to be, well it was a funny looking thing. Io had shown thema sample of it, fat and thick grassy-like blades with stinging points on the outside. He recalled that if you tore into it there was a wite gel’sh substance that would bleed out. With a droopy head he paused after a long distance, at least by a pained pup’s standards he lay back down. Kotori looked up at the sun and saw it might have actually lowered some. How long until he needed to get back home. Why couldn’t he find the dumb plant? He was gonna have to ask for help, it wasn’t possible for him to find one dumb plant in all this grass. Sourly looking to one side with such dour thoughts Kotori was happily shocked when he found an Aloe Vera plant growing nearby.

Dragging himself up the pup made his way to the stinging plant. There was a reddish flower that didn’t look very soft in the center of it. Kotori tapped a paw on the plant’s blade as he pondered how to best handle it. After a bit of his burned stomach angrily reminding him it hurt Kotori just lay down, belly stinging on the ground and bite into the plant to yank off a section of it. The poky-spots on it were unwanted stinging sensations against his muzzle but didn’t seem to really hurt him. The plant was a fat thing and it took some chewing to pull it off. Some of the aloe vera was leaking out and Kotor spit out the blade to try and spit out the white substance. “yuck!”

Kotori smeared some of the of the white stuff on his paw and tucked it up but found a new problem, the front paw wasn’t doing a good job at getting cream to his stomach. Kotori let out a pleading whine at this point with all this movement stretching the unhappy belly. Now what? Kotori glared at the plant for a bit processing this new problem. Finally he started biting into the flat end of the plant more, stopping at points to whipe the white substance from tongue to paw, still icky. Eventually he had the plant torn open more for a good smeal of the white stuff coming out.

Kotori layed his tummy down on top of it, feeling how the plant itself felt unpleasant and just more painful on the stomach, but on the parts where the white substance connected he felt some relief, but that was only a small portion of a painful belly. Kotori felt tears sliding down his eyes from all the pain he was causing himself at this point. The small pup chewed off another section of the plant and with head and tail hung low headed out of the thick grass with his prize. Kotori would get aunty Io or mom, dad or well just about anyone to help him smear it on. Getting out of the grass he made it part way back to his den then gave up, he wanted mom or dad. Tilting his fuzzy head up to the sky he let out a sad puppy howl crying for help. At least he had the medicine? Did that count for anything. Kotori then lay down with paws tucked under trying to keep his belly and head on the dirt miserably.

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