mad scientist experiments

The soft tap of a paw against his nose was met with a snort and a jerk of his tapered skull- a little warning would have been nice! Acacius' paws still reeked of whatever plants he'd been playing with. The larger boy announced in a conspiratorial whisper that he was going to restore Raven's sight, to which he couldn't help but lift a brow dubiously and drop his rump heavily onto the hard packed dirt of the barn floor. Well, either it would work or it wouldn't, so what was the harm in letting Acacius get to work? Without much more prompting, his brother was unloading a bunch of strong smelling herbs from his bag. He couldn't identify all of them, but he knew the overall scent profile of herbs by now. A bit tangy, sometimes sweet smelling, but always distinctly plant smelling. The sounds of paste being smeared across a roughened surface with an equally rough paw pad met his ears, and the dark furred youngster twitched his keen ears to better fixate on the sounds of his brother working.

His brother at least gave him the courtesy of explaining what he was getting up to, and what Raven ought to be doing to make sure it all works. Moss in the ears? Menthol.. under his nose? Taking away his most important senses to try and prompt his eyes to begin working again seemed to make enough sense in his young mind, but he did wonder how Acacius expected to retrieve the moss from out of his ears once the procedure was over. And suddenly his brother was asking for his approval, to which he blinked a few times- the motion was mostly just something he did reflexively to express some of the energy that seemed to thrum under his skin at the notion of Acacius stuffing plants into all the different parts of his face. "Uh, okay." he finally said with a heavy shrug. He trusted Acacius to figure it out, one way or another.

When he squeezed his sightless eyes shut, the strange wetness of the bandages pressed over them nearly made him gag. It was so weird! It was cold somehow? And soaking into his fur already! Thin tail thumped against the ground as he tried to force himself to sit still long enough for Acacius to keep working away.

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