[Pitou]

 

Originally Posted by DelM33

>Rosekit< 1/10

Rosekit watched the large medicine cat bring plants she had never seen into the den. She knew from her limited time outside the nursery that some plants or herbs have healing properties that can be used to help cats with sicknesses. The brindled kit looked curiously at some of the weirder things brought in, like the odd white ball of something. Those were cobwebs. Are cobwebs even edible? No, now's not the time to be distracted. Rosekit switched her attention to Elmshadow and the shiny red berries in front of him. They looked enticing, almost like the shine of the berries was hypnotizing her. Her ear twitched as Elmshadow began to speak, and she snapped her gaze back to him.

She listened to his explanation, repeating his words in her head. "So these berries aren't edible, and if you eat something like them, you get really really sick?" That's the understanding she got from what Elmshadow had to say. Rosekit usually understood things quickly, but herbs and plants and whatnot were something new to the kit.

@Ravensong

Originally Posted by Ashie da WindClanner

@Ravensong @DelM33

Duskkit nodded. “Uh huh,” she meowed, waiting for Elmshadow to continue,”They look tasty and they look pretty! But you can’t eat ‘em…”

**Elmshadow**

The dark medicine cat gave one deep nod as the kits before him repeated back a version of what he had said. It seemed well enough that they'd caught the basics. "If they only make you really sick, you'll be lucky. Many of these will kill you before you can even make it back to camp." He moved the berries in closer to him, sticking them beneath his belly. He didn't want to keep them somewhere in sight of the kits while he didn't have his full attention on them so under himself seemed the easiest place to keep them guarded as he moved on to the next lesson. "In general, unless a medicine cat gives you an herb or you know for sure what you're grabbing, don't eat it."

Things got a little trickier when it came to prey. A mouse was a mouse but depending on many factors, even freshkill could turn deadly and it seemed even many warriors often couldn't reliably tell the difference. He pulled the freshkill out in front of him, separating the fresh toad and the rotting squirrel. "Have a good smell but don't taste them. If you found these on the freshkill pile, what are your thoughts?"