Marshmallows

Alarr informed her that some of his own pack had been afflicted with the same illness that she had. The girl's obsidian ears slicked back to her crown. She wouldn't wish the crystal sickness on anyone, not even her worst enemy. Not that Ikigai had any enemies. "Your people... they're okay?" Some hadn't survived the long night, this she knew.

When Alarr offered to show her how to process the root, the girl's features brightened, "Yes please, Sensei." She bowed her head again, taking on the role of student to Alarr's teacher. Both she and Willa followed the antlered man to the fire that his avian companion had stoked. "Your lungs are still healing from the sickness?" She could only imagine that the marshmallow tea was to help with his own ailment. There wasn't anyone else around.

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