From the bones

Ruga grumbled and rubbed his head as the pounding headache slowly began to dissipate, looking furiously toward the crystal that had clearly gotten the best of him. He'd never had any sort of material effect him like this and it absolutely befuddled him. His ears perked as the smaller woman caught him off guard, not noticing her reaching toward him until her paw was on his forehead. He blinked his seafoam eyes as he looked up at her, finding her warm, fire-hued gaze. He didn't have a chance to comment though as something else pulled her attention and he followed her gaze toward a strange figure that looked as if the fireflies had all joined together as one with a cloth draped over them like a cloak. He shook his head and blinked a couple times, wondering if maybe he was imagining things or if that crystal was messing with his head more than he thought it had.

But it seemed like the young woman had noticed it too so it wasn't just him that saw this weird thing and its table of even weirder stuff. He pulled himself to his feet as she moved toward the figure, listening as it spoke to them and told them to choose one item, directing them each to one side of the table. Making deals with whatever this thing was seemed ill advised at best, but he hung back just behind his fire-marked acquaintance just in case this thing tried something funny and he needed to pull her back. Her transaction seemed to go alright even though he couldn't tell what it was she had purchased so he looked to the items the firefly figure had offered to him.

He didn't know what the first thing meant by making him more resilient, though that was mildly tempting. The second thing didn't really appeal to him. He was already much bigger than most and he couldn't imagine being any bigger. The last thing—a strange mushroom that said "eat me"—was the biggest wild card. He had dabbled in some recreational plants and herbs in the past so the idea of it certainly wasn't foreign to him, but did he trust the idea of eating a mushroom from this thing? Fuck it he thought to himself and grabbed the crystal that had seemingly sparked this whole thing and tossed it on the table, taking the mushroom in return. At least he could get something for his trouble.

"Ruga Amanto"