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Hemlock watched as Tapat investigated the bundle before eating it, a little smile growing on her face. Of course it wouldn't be good but she had hopes that it would be helpful. Sometimes medicine wasn't the most appealing of arts taste wise, but, what the benefits it could give were was so much greater. "You and your brother have different strengths. I am not as strong physically as Lotte, nor as good with words and songs, but she does not know medicine and it's healing arts as I do." She explained, in a sense sidestepping the boy's question entirely. 

"Sometime if you wanted I would welcome you going with me to gather more herbs, perhaps I could escort you on a trip to visit your handsome beau as well." Hemlock offered. She wanted to keep active as much as she could before she would be bound to the pack's territory - but these were thoughts she didn't want to share with the pale boy in the event that she was somehow wrong or a true tragedy happened.