Another day, Another lesson

Walk | Talk | Think

Her serious, expectant stare remained fixed upon her dark-colored teacher, searching his kindly smiling face as he went about explaining to her about the newest lesson he had lined up today. And the moment the word left his lips her ears perked and her attention seemed to fixate even more pointedly upon him. Poisons! She had been nothing but curious about the plants after attending the healer's meeting in which a few of them had been introduced, had wished more than anything to be taught more about them, but in the aftermath of the meeting she had forgotten to ask. Max was a busy individual, and though her own training was still not quite complete Callisto was competent enough to do things on her own now.

But that did not stop her from raising her brows and offering her instructor a look that was almost disbelieving. "Really?" she asked, not with an incredulous tone but one surprisingly eager, almost animated, compared to how she normally spoke. Finally! At last the dream she had harbored of becoming more familiar with the deadly plants was coming true. And though she voiced no thanks to Maximous, still far too eager for him to keep talking, she was full of gratitude for his attention to her interests to spark this new lesson.

He introduced each of the plants to her, offering their names as she stared at them before her feet. Quickly she reclined into a seated position and lowered her head slightly as she surveyed each of them closely, determining physical differences to go along with the differences in their scents that she had already begun to determine when she had first arrived. There were so many of them, much more than they normally covered in one lesson, but Callisto remained eager for the challenge, casting her gaze questioningly at Max as she placed a grey paw upon the plant on her left, asking, "This one's Alder Buckthorn?" She needed to make sure she had them in the right order and was not getting the list turned around. It meant far too much to her to mess this particular lesson up.