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***Alchemist Kitsune*** · #**348** May 6th, 2025, 09:46 PM

Honest surprise flickered through Lightningstorm's eyes at the mention of the giant's litter, having had some generally easy enough encounters with the lot as kits. Jaggedpaw had been horrified at the mere thought of blood, refusing to look at his paw after his littermate had given him the slightest of nibbles. That instantly took him out of the pool of suspects, but left most of the others wading in it if the rumors around camp were to be believed. The medicine cat wasn't one to put stock on these rumors, unfounded in sensible facts for the most part, however, and considering the apprentices were much younger than Cardinalpaw, it was genuinely impressive to think that any one of them had been able to inflict much damage. Evidently looks could be deceiving as far as they went.

"Huh..." she finally huffed after another careful inspection of the injury, her whiskers twitching with mild amusement as she added a mischievous, "Curious. I'd heard of eating one's words, but never of eating the one who'd pissed you proper off before. Looks like this one overestimated the size of their mouth, though."

A giggle escaped her before she shook her head, twitching her tail in a motion that implied for Cardinalpaw to sit down before speaking once more. "Wait here, love. I'll bring you some herbs and clean that right up for you. The right poultice, you won't even feel the bite... Until tomorrow, anyway. Can't have you forgetting it's there and having you reopening or messing it up. Then it's my maw you have to worry about, and I've been told that my angry speeches are scarier than any bite."

Cocking a brow, the herbalist offered a cheeky smirk before turning around and vanishing down the tunnels, gone for only a few moments before she returned with a few herbs. Placing a leaf besides her poultice grinding stone, she set a dandelion inside the hollow dip at its center before turning to the stream that ran down from the entrance chamber towards the tunnels themselves. With well practiced motions, she moistened a wad of thick, soft looking moss before taking the moss towards the stone, squeezing some of the liquid onto the dried bloom atop it before returning her attention to Cardinalpaw, moss in paw.

"Going to clean up that blood offa ya before I make a poultice. It's going to sting for a bit, but it's better it stings now than later due to a nasty infection, innit?" Lightningstorm explained as she got closer, letting the apprentice settle down as comfortably as he could before she began treating the wound.

@olliebones [Cardinalpaw]