Blackfeather Woods breathe, just breathe

Cicero chuckled when Maegi said that she would try to catch the fox. "No need to catch," he was quick to instruct. "Herbs can easily be hidden within food. A hungry fox won't know." He paused for a thoughtful moment before he added: "Neither will a hungry wolf. The food will mark the scent." Cicero's experience was that most wolves wouldn't notice herbs within a piece of food; they would just be hungry enough to get to it, especially loners. To think one'd have to catch a fox and force feed it herbs seemed like an impossible task to Cicero.

Maegi then asked if he could tell her about all the plants, which seemed an impossible task for there were so many. "Cicero can show his cache," he offered after a thoughtful moment, but added: "Though herbs grow much better outside of winter." Perhaps it'd be better to wait 'til spring, but he was not sure if the current family tensions'd keep him 'round that long. Time would tell.

Cicero nodded when Maegi suggested the tree was poisonous. Perhaps not the tree itself, but it was close enough so he did not elaborate. Then, to the forest. "When the snow and cold is gone," he suggested. "First, the cache." And he wandered towards the nearest cache where he still had some dried herbs. Not much, but better than none.