Sick kit!!

[Graypaw]

Graykit hobbled into the medicine clearing. "Sorry, I know I've been here before~" he meowed. "But I'm really uncomforatble, and.... ACHOO! And, Cheetah told me I'm really burning up. " he gasped for breath. "So I think I'mm... ACHOO Sick!"

[Forestbreak]

"You're pretty accident-prone, huh?" Forestbreak mewed. "No problem. Seems like just a little cold. A little feverfew, some tansy, you'll be fine." She smiled wearily and padded forward, laying her tail over the kit's forehead. "Yep. You've got a fever," the medicine cat told her.

She took a few leaves of feverfew and tore a small scrap of tansy off of a leaf, and chewed a poultice, then spat it onto a stone. "Eat this," she mewed frankly.

[Graypaw]

"T-thanks" meowed Graykit. Forestbreak was always so nice. He dipped his head and licked up the herbs, gagging at the bitter taste and sticking out his tongue. "Why do herbs taste so horrible.." he meowed to himself, loud enough for Forestbreak to hear.

[Forestbreak]

Forestbreak laughed. "It's a small sacrifice for getting healed. It may be unpleasant for a moment, but you'll gain from it in the long run, hm?" the medicine cat purred. "Your fever should go down after a little while, and it's all uphill from there. You'll be fine." She began pawing the flecks of herb off of her foreleg.

"Now," she began, "you shouldn't go near other kits till your fever's been gone for at least a day. After that time, you shouldn't be contagious anymore. So just rest and relax a while."

[Graypaw]

"Thanks, you're a great medecine cat." meowed Graykit, purring and leaping out of the den, to return with a juicy vole. "For you." he meowed, dropping the vole at Forestbreak's paws. Then he backed out of the den again, his dark gray stripe on his spine turning silver in the light.

[Forestbreak]

"Thanks." Forestbreak purred and returned to sorting her herbs with swagger.

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