You don't need to run

Their kiss concluded nearly as quickly as it had started, and left Spirit with a dozen questions that wouldn't even begin to reach his lips. He'd never even considered being attracted to anyone, certainly not anyone he'd just met - was it possible he liked males, like his brother? The heat he'd felt rise to his face only intensified, and he felt it trickling down his neck and making his whole body feel like it was on fire. "O-okay," he stammered, beginning to move away from the strange stone structures. He hadn't found anything of use there, so he feared finding anything elsewhere, but he had to try, and hope that Laith had a fresh view that might help him spot something he'd otherwise miss.

"I-I'm not sure," Spirit started, licking his lips nervously. "M-maybe we can find some boneset. It's.. very recognizable. G-grows in tiny little white clusters, like little white hairs instead of petals, sometimes in really big groups," he explained as well as he could. Boneset was said to help against fevers and he hoped it might do something to whatever illness gloom was afflicted with. He had to try, even if he wasn't sure it'd work.

It shouldn't have surprised him that Laith wouldn't let the kiss thing go. "No-no, never," he answered dumbly. His life hadn't been.. easy. His nervousness wasn't just a cute little quirk, but instead a deep character flaw, and wolves as flawed as Spirit didn't go around kissing other wolves. That was completely out of the question.