The cats climbed out onto the balcony and followed the buzzard. Magec watched from a distance and saw the bird of prey swoop down toward them, and the fight began. Airám gave it all he had, fighting with claws and teeth, but the bird's beak grabbed him and dug into his shoulder. Magec screamed their boyfriend's name in terror, and this distracted the bird long enough for Ada to attack. She jumped on the bird's back and began biting its wings like a crazed beast. She really seemed like she had a lot of energy inside her and was letting it out on the bird of prey.
In the end, the bird managed to free itself from Ada and flew off in the opposite direction with no intention of returning, but Airám was already injured.
Ada helped him get back to his home, but the kittypet was starting to sneeze too.
Magec looked around in horror. They were the only one who wasn't hurt or sick. They were the only faycán, but without their herbs on hand, they couldn't do anything to help the rest, except keep the sick cats comfortable and away from the rest and gently lick Airám's wound clean. Suddenly, everything was going wrong, and the poor faycán didn't know what to do.
They waited on them for a while, but there wasn't much more they could do. They had to go get herbs to heal them, but they couldn't leave them alone.
They were about to have an anxiety attack when the door to the twoleg den opened, and Ada's twoleg walked in and saw the scene. He dropped everything he was carrying on the floor and rushed to care for the injured and sick cats. It didn't matter to him that Airám and Sibisse weren't his cats. He began to care for them and said something about taking them to the "Vet," a word Magec didn't understand, but assumed it was some kind of healer like themself.
With one less problem to worry about, Magec decided to deal with the rest of their problems. They had to warn Tanausú of what had happened, check their herb reserves, and get more if they wanted to keep the clan together. Although they had plenty, anxiety was not leaving their side, and the worst-case scenarios—with the entire clan sick and no way to cure them—were flooding their mind like waves against rocks in a storm.
They left through the balcony and ran along the paths to the malpaís and followed the trails to the first jameo they found, ready to jump in without a second thought, but they stopped when they caught a strange smell... a cat in the distance... and it wasn't from the clan. They shook their head. It couldn't be, it couldn't be that everything was getting worse so quickly. They weren't a guañoth, nor did they intend to act like one; they couldn't face a trespassing cat alone. They ran, jumped into the jameo, and walked through the volcanic tunnels until they found the mencey.
“Mencey!!! We were with Ada and a friend of hers when a buzzard appeared and… Airám… he… he's injured and… Ada's twoleg is taking care of him and the girls who got sick, and everything seems to be going wrong around me today and…”
“Does a twoleg have Airám?” Tanausú asked with some concern in his voice.
“He's the one Ada lives with. She said he was trustworthy. She promised to return Airám to me when he's healthy again.”
Those words seemed to calm the mencey; he trusted Ada's judgment. “If they need any herbs to heal them that we have, take them.”
He turned to leave, but Magec stopped him. “I'm not finished yet. I… I smelled an intruding cat before. It's not from the clan or a friend of Ada's, that's for sure.”
“Did you see it? Do you know what it was looking for, if it's hostile?” Tanausú asked, worried again.
“No, I didn't see them, nor do I know their intentions, I only caught their scent.”
Tanausú nodded thoughtfully. “Go to the medicine den to check your herbs and keep an eye out. I'll order all the cats to hide in the tunnels, and we'll wait. If they don't see anything of interest, anything of value in these barren wastelands, they might leave. I'll come see you at the medicine den as soon as the danger passes to see what we can do, don't worry…”
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◂ inventory
bug | 1 FP | x2
bee | 1 FP | x2
kibble | 1 FP | x1
crab | 2 FP | x3
shrew | 2 FP | x1
rat | 3 FP | x1
large stolen fish | 5 FP | x1
borage leaf | x1
sweet sedge | x1
cobwebs | x1
blackberry leaves | x1
coltsfoot | x1
juniper berries | x1
tormentil | x1
thyme | x1
watermint | x1
comfrey root | x1
honey | x2
goldenrod | x1
parsley | x1
user choice | x3