He is worried for a moment that it would cause more harm than good, feeling his own breath catch in his throat as he watched the air around Rue get sucked away. But the fire went with it, dying out with the lack of air to sustain itself. They let out their breath. Onyx-Three was unsure of how to respond, choosing to accept the thanks with a slight tilt of the head.
Their attention returned to the fungus, reaching out to slash at it with a dagger. The clump came off with a clean cut, falling to the ground in a tangle of white. He stomped on it. It felt spongey beneath his foot. From the corner of his eyes, he watched Rue absorb some of the life from the fungus. That was an interesting method of killing it.
"You feel better?" he did not know how badly the fire affected them. If they were badly injured still, Onyx-Three considered using magic once more to help.
@Rue
He just nods, unsure how to interpret Rue's words. But he wasn't going to go after them, seeing that they stated they were fine, and returned his attention to the fungus. They had made enough progress with their cleaning now that it was harder to find any clumps that could be considered low hanging fruit in this area. He had to stretch now to knock down a clump, nearly losing his balance with the height. Onyx-Three was just glad that this task was something he could do, in comparison to his incompetence in dealing with magic. It was something he should learn perhaps. Mastery was not necessary, but some ability in it would be helpful for future situations. Even if it scared him. A bit.
@Rue
Onyx-Three stretched his limbs, giving them a break from the strain. He caught the irony in Rue's words, though decided not to comment on it.
"I will be careful." There would be steady progress if he continued to stick to ripping away at the fungus rather than using magic to blow it up or something like that. Though he did realize that they preferred the latter- something he was wary of.
He turns to rip at another piece of fungus, but it quickly interrupted by a very loud mental 'BEGONE FOUL ORDER!' What was that? Who said that? Onyx-Three whirled around, ears rotating as if it had been a voice rather than a message in his mind. The message had obviously not been directed at him. He knew he was not Order after all! That was a scary thought. Rue was staring at a piece of the white stuff, which may have been what was the intended recipient of the message. This then made him question then if it was possible to speak to fungus.
"You can speak to Order?"
@Rue
Onyx-Three felt a bit stupid in that moment. Of course you couldn't speak to order! So they just nodded in response, and ducked their head in embarrassment, returning once more on the task before them. But
something goes wrong. It could've been lack of focus, or it could've been that they were too preoccupied with trying to dispel their own silliness form their mind. They slip on a piece of discarded Order fungus that was lying upon the ground, and end up not removing any fungus at all, coming away with a slightly sore tail.
Maybe he should follow Rue and try using more magic to deal with this issue, but maybe only if this continued to go badly. After all, he was not specialized in such things, nor did he want to be.
@Rue
He was glad Rue didn't seem to notice the unfortunate accident, getting back up and shaking his fur. The clump of fungus that they chose to target was particularly tough, and their claws get caught in it for a moment before breaking it free. Perhaps all the loose fungus was already cleared from the area, so what was remaining was trickier to get rid of. It takes a few more swipes to completely clear away the clump, which he tossed away to where the others had been collected.
@Rue