Herb Gathering {M}

Demandred had to toss the baby bear aside twice more, and it still came at him, trying to defend its sick mother, he didn't expect any different from an animal then he would a human. Demandred noticed the small amount of herbs, only enough for one dose, that was all he needed, but the mother bear seemed to be growing more and more sick with closer observation. Demandred had to think for some time, it was a smart little bear indeed, animal instinct to know what medicine to try and find and give, the bears mother most like will have to ingest it. But to what Demandred could see, there was something much more wrong than what a simple eating of a herb could do.

Throwing away the baby bear once more, he turned to try and look at what was wrong but the bear came at him again, the bear seemed to think that he would throw it to the side again when instead Demandred smacked the beast straight on the snout with a good amount of force. “HEY! Now you stop that” he yelled at the small bear in a deep tone of voice, “I'm not here to hurt you you silly bear, I'm here to help” he commanded. The little bear seemed dumb founded at what had just happened and sat on its but as its head turned slightly in confusion. Demandred nodded to the little bear as it sat still, a remarkably smart bear indeed.

He went over to the momma bear and began to circle it, inspecting the bear and as he thought it had an injury, not major but left without aid and it would get infected and a fever would insue. Demandred motioned over to the little bear and it came over to him, cautiously and sniffing about, as he pointed to the little bear what the small wound was. Taking the herb in his hand he put some of it in his mouth and chewed it up grinding it with his teeth, when he felt it was ready Demandred placed it over the Bears wound. Demandred sighed at not finding the herb still and began his journey back to the village, the little bear still watching over its mother. It wasn't too long before he got back to the main area, “A failure......man I searched for hours and still got nothing” he said to himself, when he felt a little poke on his leg. Demandred turned and he saw the little bear there, poked him with his nose and in his teeth was a freshly picked herb, “You must have a stash huh?” he laughed as he patted the bears head, “Give a deed and receive a deed, thanks little bear” he said to it, scratching under its chin. The little bear walked away lazily and back into the more forested area, he had seen stranger things.