a giant mushroom is called a hufungus

She watched as he swallowed the meds, and wondered exactly how much awareness he had of the world around him. She looked at his ailing form with concern and sorrow. She loved these wolves. She had very few people in the world she cared about, but Briar, Art, Hika, and Mortis made the shortlist. Perhaps Ruga, too, with his crooked smile. She sighed, and eased herself down until she was lying across from Hika, holding his paw gently in her own. Filling in until Mortis returned with the buckets of chilled water.

She got to her paws then, directing Mortis to take her spot and hold the little white wolf's paw. She began to assemble the cold buckets around Hika, pressing them against his hot skin. She dipped a strip of material into one, and laid it across his forehead. Watching, waiting, to see if the medicine helped him.


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