{PRP} What Do Healers Do?{RedBadger x Desert Sand}

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Desert Sand was excited for the day. One of the puppies would be coming to follow him and see what he did for the pack. The light tan male had fretted most of the night on what would be acceptable. He didn’t think the pup was ready to see actual healing. Instead he finally settled upon talking about the plants he used in his healing. There was a lot there he could talk about that wouldn’t upset the pup or the pup’s mother.

He woke up early that morning to go through his supplies and decide what he’d need to gather that day. Not taking the pup far meant there were fewer things he could get, but he could show RedBadger what a larger part of a healer’s job was. If being out picking plants didn’t suit the pup it was better to know now. The sun was well up when Desert Sand went to pick up the pup from his mother.


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[Kesmi]

Sharp needle like teeth chewed with great enthusiasm on a bone that had been attached to his breakfast. The meat having been devoured in earnest earlier that left only the white bone that was splintering in places so that he could get to the marrow within. A small growl echoed from his throat as he chewed, it was only when the larger, to his pup size, wolf appeared close to his mother's den, did RedBadger stop and leave the bone where he had been laying. The dirt was well shifted from his moving and coated his belly in clumps and dustings. With a good shake of his coat dislodged most of the mess though his white markers would need a bath later.

"Desert Sand!" RedBadger dashed to the Dire and plopped before him. "What we going to do today?"

Plume tail dusted the ground behind him as he waited to hear. While this was just a day of shadowing the Dire, he hoped that they could do something exciting. RedBadger was still young and there were many places he could go when older, but he thought to start with Healing. It could be exciting!

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Kesmi

The young male was pleased with how well the litter was growing. The pups were so big now, he noted as he approached the den of his pupil-for-the-day. Desert Sand let his tongue lol out in a smile as RedBadger spotted him and came running over. It was nice to have someone so interested in what they were doing for the day! Unlike his brother.

“I’m going to show you what it is I do most often as a healer.” Sand laughed, then gave the pup a look before taking sly glance around to be sure no one was watching them. “Come! Let’s slip away into the wilds and see what the earth has to show us.” Wilds being a relatively mild term for the tame territory the pair would be walking through. Still the pup didn’t need to know that.

Sand did a play bow at RedBadger, then he took off in a game of Follow-Me. Looking back, he made sure the pup was able to keep up.


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[Kesmi]

RedBadger stared up at the larger Dire as he spoke of showing him what he did on a daily basis. While he didn't know what he was getting himself into, but the young Baserker was up for any game that his elder could throw at him. Tail wagging behind him, Badger gave one last look behind him at his den, his home that he shared with his mother and sister. But he was about to start a grand adventure, not time for second thoughts.

"Into the wilds!" Redbadger voiced behind Desert Sand as he crouched and took off after the sandy colored dire. "Is your job always out here in the wilds?" he asked as he followed in quick strides.

Redbadger had spent a good few nights sitting up and watching the stars thinking of what he might want to be when he was older. While it was not common thoughts to pups, at least to his knowing to wonder. His mother was a warrior that protected the pack and his sister... She had her own ideas of what she wanted to be, mostly she tried terrorizing him, but he would get her back... In his own ways. With a grin on his muzzle as he thought of Voidsight missing out on the fun, he kept close to Desert Sand's heels. He didn't want to miss a thing of what was going to happen today.

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Kesmi

After a short time, Desert Sand slowed so that the pup could travel beside him easily. The male took a deep breath. It wasn’t the scents of prey or animals that he noticed more, but that of the plants. This was and always would be paradise for him. If ever he got upset, he came out to just sit among the plants.

Sand looked down at RedBadger with a smile. “A lot of it. You see the plants I use have to come from somewhere. Do you know Desert Storm, my brother? Could you imagine his muscle bound self, trying to pick plants?” The light tan male laughed at the idea.

“You see RedBadger, a healer collects all the herbs he or she uses. We have to know where and when to find specific plants, how to preserve them, and how to safely use them. Without that proper knowledge, some plants can be very danger or even deadly.” He looked around at the plants nearby.

“Look here little pup.” The male crouched down by a tiny, scruffy looking weed of several to a cluster that had a pungent smell. The leaves weren’t very large but seemed to go in all directions, and were an off mint green color. “This one is called fleabane. It can make you popular with the others if you know how to find it. If ever you find yourself with fleas, roll in a patch of this, and bring some back to sprinkle in your den. It will drive the fleas away.”


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[Kesmi]

RedBadger slowed a little bit, to at least a trot beside the larger healer. Watching Desert Sand more then where he was going, Badger stumbled slightly as he tripped over something, but caught himself and carried on. Unharmed as it was mostly over his own large paws, he watched as Sand breathed in when they were away from the others. Perplexed he tilting his head before Sand stopped.

Ears twitching as he listened, Badger took things in like water to sponge moss. He glanced at the 'weed' that was being talked about and that it was called Fleabane. Tilting his head he stepped forward to get a whiff of the plant before sneezing. This tossing him back onto his rump in a comical fashion.

"Are fleas that common that we need a plant to get them to go away?" he asked, not really having a comment of Sand's brother. He had never met Desert Storm, not up close anyways. "Also, you have to really get all your herbs by yourself? I thought there were others in the pack that helps." To this he tilted his head to one side, perhaps he had been wrong. But there had to be someone, when all the healers were dealing with sick and injured and not a one could be spared to get supplies..

RedBadger looked back at the Fleabane plant, wondering if he should collect a bit after the lessons were done to take home. Put some around his mom's and sister's beds. He wouldn't want them to get fleas.... Whatever they were... Certainly sounded nasty to say the least.
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