[Atari] Singing on their bones

[Streamtail]

Ariadne

♡ Keeper | She/her | Pale silvery white rosette molly with large copper eyes, dusty grey nose/pads, and smaller tufted ears ♡

Ariadne watches with a bemused yet judgemental expression, her tail swishing rhythmically and slowly behind her. What's the old fart up to now? Well, she doesn't exactly know his age (does anyone?), so she's just assuming. But anyway, bones...? She shakes her head in slight bewilderment, Blood really can definitely be unsettling, but a literal bone collection? Seriously? But why would he even-? Actually, she doesn't even want to know. She's gonna keep her trap shut this time around and focus on the fact that he's tryin' to teach a sensible(ish) lesson, surely the others are all freaked out too that one of the healers has a large collection of feline bones, they don't need her to point it out! She pads up closer, reaching the front of the crowd just in time to hear somethin' bout consuming bone marrow. She visibly shudders.

"Ew..." She mutters, the repulsion written all over her face as the word just slips out.

She shakes her head and her gaze sweeps over the large collection of bones before her, her eyebrows raised slightly as she takes in the size of the pile.

"Where did you find all these...?" She asks, her tone both perplexed and even a tad curious, "Are these all cat bones?"

These are genuine questions, important ones. Yes, earlier she said she wouldn't get hung up on it and yes, she'll listen to the lesson, but she needs to know where he got all these. It's slightly worrisome. She is not one to hold questions back either.

[bambi]

WISP ✧ ATARI YOUNG
she/her - 4 moons (ages every 21st ) - open
finder
“black she-cat with pointy ears and yellow green eyes”


The small kit nervously
walked over to see
what the commotion was
all about. She stared at
the pile of spread out
bones, interest biting at her
paws.Fractured bones? Easy enough
for her. Well, sorting them
out wasn’t the thing she really
had in mind.. Anyways, she
stared at a obviously almost
half-snapped bone.

[Wingnettle]

Blood
Atari healer
he/him | age unknown



Blood observed as one of his mates touched his collection without an apparent goal, another one yucked in disgust and the third one... oh, finally someone doing something useful. Damn, these cats were surely weird.

"Hydrangea, what exactly are you trying to do?" He asked, genuinely curious but also not. He was undecided, so what?
"Oh, right, right. Guys. To suck the mallow out of a bone, of course you'll need to open the fracture and the bone. It's on the inside, you know." He turned his head, staring at Hydrangea. "You should remember this, you know." He said with an uninterested voice. "Mallow might save your life in the harsh season. Very nutritious, mhh."

He used a paw to sort the bones out and pick one to let them see.
"As you might already know, fractures come from great impacts. Great, but not positive, eheh.
Some examples might be the twolegs monsters, a fall from a tree, or a snap from a bigger predator such as a badger. Cunning teeth and mandibles, those demons." He commented, silently reviving in his head that day when he almost died at the paws of one.

"You, kit." He turned toward little Wisp, the cutey cute in the group.
"Can you tell me other ways a cat can break their bones like this?" He picked up a cat's pelvis with a long gash on the left side. "But first, can you tell me where this bone is?" Was this a cat's bone? Mhhh. Yes, looked like it. But Blood was almmmost sure he was slowly forgetting things.

@@atari

[Sn0wDr0p]

Hydrangea dipped her head before speaking, her tone light and respectful. "I'm just trying to sort them, Blood, by how deep the cracks are, and, while I respect you, I can't even begin to fathom eating the mallow out of bones." She pushed down on one of the smaller bones at the edges, snapping it- "But it does make a cause to wonder whether you can tell which bones are fractured by which animal or monster depending on their severity? That way, if we find an animal bone somewhere, we can identify what killed it? It's just an idea, we might be able to gather more info on what beasts, whether badger or not, dwell on Atari land. It could help keep everyone safer, no? It might be a possibility, if you know how to identify them, right?"
is it a possibility? Probably not. She had no base to support her theory- she had gone completely on a limb. She only had the thought and the hope that it might be possible with due research on the bones. Safe as Atari was, it could always be more so, and unexpected accidents could always occur. Better to be over prepared than under prepared, and it was best to explore every possibility, no matter how impossible it might seem at first.
She flicked her tail, her head tilting ever so slightly as she blinked at the old healer, her tone this time holding an edge of curiosity, "Can we identify what the fracture was caused by, Blood?"