Legends Of The Sky - Forget-me-not: Story 2

 «Help me, Ryaska»

     A young griffix, whose name Forget-me-not didn't know, came into their tent, hiding something under the folds of his clothes. His massive mask attracted the attention of Forget-me-nots, and he also looked at the unexpected guest with interest.

     «How can I help you, Wolf?» mom looked surprised, she quickly put on her mask too. They are rarely visited by anyone about healing matters. Forget-me-not liked her mother's mask, she remembers how she put a new layer of paint on it, and even allowed her to paint it.

     «...Uhh, can you take a look at him? He was just born» the guest, whom mother called Wolf, showed her what he was hiding.

     Forget-me-not pricked up her ears in interest when she saw a tiny griffix with dark fur and a very bright down. The cub was covered with gray spots, his nose, the tips of his ears and the pads of his paws were purple, like plum fruits.

     «Whose cub is this?» Forget-me-not noticed how the fur on the back of her mother's neck rose briefly, but immediately smoothed out. There was a feeling that mother knew the answer, but she decided to be sure.

     The expression of the guest's face could not be seen under the mask, but the voice definitely suggested that Wolf had become slightly annoyed, «This is my son. Examine him, he's cold»
     The guest spoke with indifference, but Forget-me-not felt that he actually care. 

     «Where have you been before?!» Ryaska took the cub from Wolf with the help of magic and ordered Forget-me-not to immediately crumple a nest out of a clean skin. While little girl was looking at the baby in confusion, he realized faster and already directed Forget-me-not to the bags where they kept some of their things for healing. She took out the brown skin of some animal and quickly made a little bed for the cub with her paws. Mom carefully lowered him and began to examine him.

     «Come here, Forget-me-not, you'll help me. Lie down next to him and lick him, he needs to be warmed up.. Don't forget to lick his nose and mouth, be careful with his stomach»

     Quickly glancing at the guest, as if asking for permission, the girl shyly crept up to the nest, layed down next to the baby and now could see him closer. The girl felt her mother's worries, Forget-me-not began to sniff him and the smell of the baby reminded her of flowers. Mom also sniffed him, then turned him from his stomach to his side.

     «Look, he doesn't have enough fur on his stomach and paws and his skin is wrinkled, this is not good. His navel is not healed, his insides are not fully retracted» mother used to tell her about the healing business when she was doing herbs or on those rare occasions when someone turned to her. She plucked the feather from her wing with magic and tickled the cub's nose, even almost sticking the tip of the feather into the nostril. The baby only slightly wrinkled, but nothing else. He seems to have been bored.

     «Why did you put a feather in his nose?..» Forget-me-not asked in confusion.

     «He should have started to resent...» mother muttered thoughtfully, then put her ear to the cub's chest, «The heartbeat and breathing are slow... He must stay with us if you want him to survive»

     Forget-me-not perfectly understand that something bad was definitely happening. She looked at Wolf, who was just watching in silence, and then at the cub.

     Without waiting for an answer from Wolf, Ryaska also joined her daughter, asking her to move away, «Find a goldenrod, chew it and smear it on his stomach, I'll do it later, now we need to resuscitate him» she opened the cub's mouth with her magic and began to blow air into it, lifting the edge of her mask, then she took it in her paws and began to rub it. Forget-me-not thought that her movements were too rough and was afraid that she was hurting the baby, but she did not want to interfere, her mother knew better.

     Wolf excitedly, but briefly said that he would pick him up later and left, Forget-me-not noticed how surprised and annoyed his mother looked at him, but now she was not up to it, so was Forget-me-not herself.

     Forget-me-not whined softly, it was scary that the cub would not be able to survive. Mother often talked about death and how it is an integral part of a healer's life, and the little girl understood this, but every time she was not ready for such an outcome of events. But seeing what honed movements the mother has and how she does not hesitate to do her job, it gave her confidence and Forget-me-not decided that she would definitely be the same good healer.

     «You won't be like her, you can't even run someone's errand without my help» he scoffed, but Forget-me-not was not listening.

     The cub was sick, and Forget-me-not promised that she would definitely cure him and help him to survive become healthy, she would do everything in her power.