Alexa listened eagerly as Lucette explained her process. She mouth mimicked a few words as she spoke, as if commiting them to memory or testing how they felt in her mouth.
She nodded to the instructions from Lucette, gagher bark, lots of bark, turn it into cinders, if still gone keep mashing herbs in the bowl. Got it.
"Yes! Get bark and woods and if not back grind up thingies in bowl. Yay!"
When the little kodkod appeared Alexa reflexively recoiled for a second with her ears back and ducking back under her protective bush. As the little feline spoke to Lucette and they trusted each other she decided maybe the cat was okay for now and peered out. She didn't talk to the feline right away but watched her with a wide eye wariness.
As Lucette walked away to carry out her plan Alexa hopped onto her important task. She would take several trips of finding sticks on the ground and gathering them into a pile and any fallen strips of bark as well. She found one tree with a ribbon of bark already scratched off and dangling on the side by some creature clamboring up the trunk some time ago. She tugged at it with a ferver until it came loose and proudly placed in on her growing pile. The pile was as tall as she was, so it was probably good enough.
Lucette wasn't back yet so she peered into the bowl with the crunched up strong smelling plants. Hey she remembered that smell from when her friend got the itchies just like this! Huh! She took the pestle and experimented with crushing, turning and rolling it into the plants to make it a paste. Fun!
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