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Originally Posted by Dipper

If they'd had herbs in the storage, Fawnsqueak would've been in the den trying to memorize them but in the absence of visual aids, all he had was staring at the reed wall and going through what he knew over and over. It felt like he'd never get the hang of this, and he had no clue how the very successful medicine cats like Coyotesnarl could rattle it off like second nature.

Fawnsqueak was in the middle of the more specialized set when he saw Thistlestep and brightened slightly, grin falling lopsided as he remembered things were kind of different now. That was underscored when he jumped straight into asking for herbs that'd combat infections. "Oh.. uh, chervil," he said immediately, "that one is supposed to be super effective, but maybe it's harder to find? I don't know." He couldn't recall seeing it in the territory but probably hadn't known what to look for. In an attempt to give Thistlestep something more practical, he said, "Marigold-- you know what that looks like, right? That'd work too, and it's basically everywhere. But, uh, if you have an infection you might want to go to the den so we can look at it closer instead of treating it yourself.."

Thistlestep noticed Fawn's expression fall and made a quiet note to take him out once he was done with Warblerpaw for today. He seemed.. stressed, maybe? Miserable for sure. A hunting trip away from everything might help, at least for a little bit to get his mind off things.

"Chervil... I don't know what that is." The name itself was completely unfamiliar to him.. though he was never one to pay attention to herbs. "Marigold's the yellow flower thing, right?" Thistlestep was pretty sure he knew where a patch of that was. "Uh, well I'm not the one with the infection but Warblerpaw already visited the medicine cat den. A moon ago, I think? And it's back in his wounds, I don't really know what's going on in there but I'd rather avoid having this continue if I can clean it out and give it something to stop the infection myself. With all the injured cats who.. weren't treated by her, I dunno if I want him near her for a long while." Fawn was fine, he was just unwilling to trust the well-being of his apprentice to a cat who already botched it.