You can't miss it

The petite male shrugged off the accidental misspeak, content to move on to the real meat of the situation. The strange fungi. Lowering his heavy skull towards the ground, the titan carefully scented the tightly clustered mushrooms in hopes of gathering some kind of extra clue. As his whiskers brushed the edge of a glowing cap, he swore he saw the mushroom twitch. A tingling sensation travelled up his whiskers, one he typically associated with coming too close to a fire. The very end of his nose felt suddenly dry, as though the moisture from the cool evening air had been suddenly wicked away by warmth. Snorting softly at the odd sensation, he pulled his head away quite suddenly and curled his lip. "I've seen glowing mushrooms before," he grunted, glancing over at the other male.

"These ones are.. not right. With the moon and the stars acting like this, I would find it more difficult to believe they are not connected. Have you noticed the crystals that have started to sprout all over the castle walls? I can't look at them too long, they give me a headache." he added with a frown. Careful paws circled around the cluster of mushrooms, wary of potential burns from the unexpected heat they gave off. Pressing the length of one sharp tush against the bark of the tree, he worked the gleaming enamel against the trunk until some of the bark crumbled away. Scooping the debitage up in one massive paw, the giant male gently overturned the bark onto the caps of the mushrooms. If they had warmed his face up that quickly, and sucked the moisture from his nose, maybe they would burn away the bark too. "I swear these things just about burned my nose off a second ago," he offered the brief explanation with a small frown as he circled back to stand beside the small male and wait for something to happen. "Oh, uh, my name is Deion.." he added awkwardly, floundering in the face of social interaction. Manners and niceties weren't his strong suit.