My Earth, Moon, and Stars

Kane gave a barking laugh when Tamsyn commented how she never needed a repeat of that night, grinning while he laid out their meal. No, he would much rather prefer his little blackbird didn't fly off the handle again, but it had been a bit humorous to watch her get drunk and go off like she did. She'd needed to vent her frustrations away, and after all was said and done, he thought she was better for it. To none of his surprise, Tam said she had never tried any recreational plants of any kind—but much to his surprise, she said she was willing to try them! Kane looked at her with a surprised yet very pleased grin. "Try anything once," he repeated her words in agreement. "Cannabis is a very mild plant, so you won't have any sort of trips or hallucinations like your son did. Mostly you'll probably just feel very relaxed, maybe some heightened sensitivity, and some euphoria or warmth." Of course, the effects were different from wolf to wolf, and with Tamsyn being much smaller than he was, it was hard for him to gauge how the drug might effect her. But hey, if she enjoyed the experience, Kane would be happy to share it with her again as often as she wanted!

Once their meal was spread out and prepared, Kane caught Tam's bright grin and excitedly wagging tail and couldn't help the swell of love he felt in his chest for the beautiful fae. He puffed up with pride, overjoyed to have done something for her that worked out so well! "I wanted to show you how much I love you. How much you mean to me and how grateful I am that the Universe put you in my life. This is how you deserve to be treated, Tamsyn." Was that a slight jab at the giant black bastard from her past? Maybe. But Kane reveled in the kiss that Tamsyn leaned up to give him before they began to eat.

He gladly took the bottle of wine from her when she'd finished her drink and threw back a long glug of the rich alcohol. He began to devour a rasher of roast meat, watching while Tam ate hers to see her reaction and gauge his cooking abilities. When that pleased groan left her lips and her tail began to beat against the furs, Kane's own tail joined hers in its happy thumping. "I'm glad you like it!" he said. "I wasn't sure how good of a cook I'd be, but I'm glad it's tasty! I was just going for edible." Another rumbling chuckle from the dire brute while he ate, passing the bottle of wine back and forth between himself and Tamsyn as they went. Though he was a large wolf, Kane could already feel a slight buzz from the wine, this nicer vintage clearly having a higher alcohol concentration than the others the Hallows usually drank. That was fine; he'd brought them both out here with the intention of them cutting loose, celebrating Tamsyn, and enjoying each other to the absolute fullest.

Kane was mid bite when Tamsyn motioned to the package of cannabis, asking if she just ate it. The hunter gave a muffled hum of laughter, swallowed his mouthful, then shook his head. "I don't think your stomach would be very happy with you if you ate it straight," he stated, picking up the package and opening it up to more easily access the weed. "You can make extracts and drink it, cook it in food, or dab it on furs, bedding, pillows like an oil. In this form, it can be burned to create an incense, or if you want a stronger hit, you chew it into a paste and keep it under your tongue." To demonstrate, Kane took a decent sized wad of the cannabis in his paw and popped the plants in his mouth, chewing dutifully until the leaves were mashed up into a green paste, then wedged it beneath his tongue. "Just a few minutes is all you need for it to get started. Then you spit out the rest."

Kane waited until he began to feel a familiar tingling sensation beneath his tongue, then he turned and spat the mush out of his mouth on the ground away from them. "You'll know when it starts to hit," he remarked with a rakish grin, flashing teeth and sabers in a wide smile as he took a swig of wine to rinse out his mouth. He pulled apart another piece of roast meat, chowing down on it. If tonight went as he planned, they'd both be needing all the fuel their bodies could get. "Wanna give it a try, little blackbird?"

"Kaneonuskatew"