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Easy sniffled once more, but nodded her head in assent. She'd never tried to eat a flower before, but if a Big Wolf said it was okay, then it couldn't hurt, could it? Maybe Momma liked lavender because it tasted good?

The girl stood and wandered over to the purple flowers, breathing deep and feeling something in her chest simultanously clench and release. Ignoring that feeling, she bent her head and picked up a flower, biting down and trying to move it down her throat with her tongue. A slightly sweet but mostly bitter taste exploded across her tongue, leaving her mouth a bit numb and a cloying, floral taste at the back of her throat. She spat it out, a lightbulb going on in her pea-sized brain.

"Hey, I have an idea!" she shouted, perking up and looking to Pema with shimmering eyes. "If we spread lavender around the borders, maybe she'll smell it and want to come home! Will you help me? Daddy says I can't go that far by myself."