Can I chew on that?

Suri's little tail shot bolt upright and began to quiver when she heard that the old man was also out looking for plants. Perfect! Sure he was practically ancient (if you asked her at least,) but as long as he didn't break a hip within the next hour or two she could probably learn a lot from him. She stood at attention. "I'd love to join you! I'll be super helpful, I promise." He was growing plants, like on purpose? So it was possible. She filed that knowledge away for Future Suriel to ponder and hurried to catch up.

Suri was careful to listen, paying more attention to his words than where her paws were going, and ended up stumbling a time or two but it was worth it not to miss a single syllable. She hadn't even considered sunlight. She's not sure she'd known plants needed sunlight in the first place to be fair, but even in her youth she could notice the nights beginning to stretch, eating away at the day. He asked after her reasoning and she shrugged. "I just thought it might be useful is all. Like if a healer needed a plant but it wasn't growing anymore. You could have secret plants growing somewhere the cold couldn't get 'em." Now all she needed to do was figure out how to harness a little bit of sunlight... Couldn't be that hard, there was plenty of it during the day, right? Eh, she'd figure it out.
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