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"Raw... cooked... or fresh on the hoof..." is the only thing she asks him, getting to her feet and urging him to stand. She guides him to a table and plops a bowl of stew down before him to start him off.

"ye want the shiny ones or the others?" she asks, looking back at him.

Not sure she really understand what he is trying to tell her, she reaches for one of the irridescent stones and shoves it in his hand, closing his fingers over it tightly.

About this time, Keva come running in with a worried expression on his face. "Champhy, what gives? One of the guards came running down to meet us as Averus and I were walking back and said Uncle Kerobian collapsed in the kitchen. Is he ok?" He grabs the edge of the table to keep himself upright and reaches down to touch Kero's back. It is only then that Champhy notices how bad the young kitsune looks.

"Dear Mother... what happened to you?" she gasps snatching at his hands and pushing him onto the bench beside the void mage.

Keva shrugs. "Dunno, something in the water I think. Uncle Kero was checking it out and never came back."

Keva shifts to fox form, showing a bit more energy in that shape than in his humanoid one. "I'll take ye. It's not far. Dad has to go out once a moon or so, so we keep a preserve nearby. The area is protected though, so ye need me to get ye pass the shields."

Keva leads him at a fast rot towards a thick forested area about two miles away from the palace, down a narrow trail. Suddenly he comes to a stop before something that makes Kero's eyes hurt. For as far as he can see there is a shimmering wall, he dare not touch, that is visible only to his magical senses.

Keva walks carefully forward chanting a short phrase that he has to strain to hear. It is mostly a series of growls and yips, intermixed with a few sharp barks. And a large opening appears before him. He leads Kerobian inside the preserve and closes the shield behind him. "Dad isn't a pretty eater either." he remarks with a vulpine grin, jumping up onto a large sunny rock. "So I understand... I'll wait here. Be careful in the chase. Ye don't want to blindly run into that. The preserve covers about 1000 acres, so ye got plenty of room to run in. See ye when ye get back."

Keva does a little hunting of his own, but sticks close to the exit in case Kerobian should return. So when the void mage does come back he finds him sitting on the rock, his tummy pleasantly full picking rabbit fur out of his teeth.

"Feeling a bit better?" asks Keva knowingly as he hops down.

Keva abandons his perch and goes to open the shield, only it doesn't respond to his efforts. "Damn... don't tell me he's changed the pass through so it's no longer the same in both directions. Better go take a nap, Uncle... this may take a bit while I try to figure out which nursery rhyme he's using this time."