Hoshor Plains alleviate

Alaric was turning quickly into a fascination; his theatrical mind was already snatching up and running off with that line about poisons — he wondered how Alaric would feel about featuring in the dramatic retelling of this saga. He was already cobbling together a creative description of the medicine man to captivate his future audience...

But he snapped out of it as he was questioned, his ears flattening in careful thought.

"Sun," he said after a moment, and then, more decisively, "And water. This man works in darkness and bitter soil." His flank stung at the thought.

As for the poison...

"I only want him dead," the panther said after another brief moment of thought. "I am not a god, to make him answer for his sins. I only want our women to be safe from him."