Check up? No. Check down

“I don't know, I’ve never really tried spiced things” he explained, far too busy just scarfing down anything he was offered. She told him he could finish this batch, and he wasted no time in doing exactly that. Unashamedly eating through her supply in short order. Mmm, food was so good.

Having finished that, he leaned forward, sniffing what she was doing curiously. Moving a strong smelling spoon around - were healers weird? Maybe healers were weird. He nodded sagely as she added in Aunts. ‘I have my Auntie Gossy, she’s a good fighter. My Auntie Ophelia is big and round and doesn't fight much. Auntie Aris is snappy. Briar can fight, but she’s leaving soon.” he concluded, giving her a run down on his extended family.

Then Halo zeroed in on his words of a lion, and he grinned, bright and wide and excited. “It was big, and yellow! And I had some help, but… I totally took it down.” he boasted. He frowned thoughtfully at her question. “Mostly coyotes, and occasionally big cats. But most predators don’t go near the borders” he explained, sounding rather put out over that fact, like it was a personal affront.

"Basilisk Fatalis"