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***Alchemist Kitsune*** · #**268** October 9th, 2024, 06:04 PM

Sitting by the entrance of her den, Lightningstorm's ears perked at the sight of a lonesome kit approaching her. Head tilting as curiosity consumed her, she quickly spotted the problem. A swollen nose. The medicine cat did not have to ask to find out what had transpired, thankfully. A wasp had stung the poor kit, and left her with a rather painful reminder to not get so close to those angry little buggers in the future.

Sparing only a second's glance at the clearing assuming that perhaps a warrior or queen weren't that far off, she soon realized Maplekit had evidently come to her of her own volition. A small, sympathetic wince crossed the medic's expression as she gave her young patient a rare, gentle smile. It had to hurt like the dark forest itself if the kit had decided to come over to her of her own volition. Gratefully, unlike bees, wasps did not leave their stingers in the wound. Unfortunately, that did usually mean more than one sting in an attack, even if confronted with a single wasp, but evidently this had been a mere warning and the little one had escaped almost unscathed. Certainly more so than her last patient dealing with sting related injuries.

"Wait here a moment, love. I'll gather some herbs and have you feeling better faster than you can blink."

Looking through her storage, Lightningstorm grew accustomed to the dark, eyes settling on the oddly full honey section of her herb indentations. She rarely used honey to treat stings, mostly because it seemed like a bit of a redundancy. But this wasn't a warrior who had been careless and made bees angry while making away with some honey. This was a kit that had just found out exactly why it was best to give any flying bug with bright yellow and black stripes a wide space to fly in. Not only was she well within her rights to be a little more naive than the usual warrior, most of the herbs she used were a little too strong to use on kits. Best play it safe and have some honey... and perhaps give the remains of the comb for Maplekit to snack on. She was pretty sure a tasty treat after such an ordeal would boost her spirits!

Grabbing one bit of honeycomb that would be easy for the kit to chew on as well as a poppy seed and some cobwebs to keep the one she placed on her nose from running down her face, the herbalist padded back up the tunnels and towards the entrance chamber were the kit awaited her return. Dropping the small bundle of herbs she had brought along on the ground carefully as to not drop the honey from the leaf that kept its sticky liquid in place, the lithe calico offered the singular poppy seed to the kit, a small grin on her face. The seed would make her far too sleepy to walk back to the nursery, so odds were she would have to take her to one of the private nests to snooze away while her nose improved, but considering kits could be a bit careless, perhaps having her sleep away the worst of the inflammation would not be so terrible of an idea after all. Besides, who wanted to stay awake through the immediate aftereffects of a sting? The wiry framed healer was fairly certain no one in their right mind would.

"Right. Here you go. I'm going to need you to eat this seed. It will make you sleepy, but it will make that pain go away sooner rather than later. I'll also need to put some of this honey on your sting and wrap it with some cobwebs, but as a treat, you get to eat what's left! Have you ever had honey before? If not, let me tell you... you might just find your new favorite snack!" Lightningstorm purred as she began unwrapping the honeycomb, kneading on the mildly crystallized honey in order to get it flowing once again.

@Blossom Cry [Maplekit]