Wilder trotted through Canis, every so often glancing back at the tunnel she'd just left behind. A lot of creatures had disappeared into it and for a moment she wondered how many she would ever see again. Thothaga, Eythan, Skeena, Shango...for a moment she thought she saw a familiar feline figure disappearing into the hot cave and her stomach dropped. Indelia?!

She was staring straight at the cave for a moment before she shook her head and walked away. Hopefully they'd see sense and leave, just as she did. Although she didn't know how many of them knew the same spells she did. Could they look into their futures too?

She didn't want to die. And she knew that, if she went in, it wouldn't just be bad for her - Squick was still in her stomach. If she died, she wouldn't be the only one to go down. She doubted that if her body was damaged enough, Squick would just be able to hop right out and find a new host. It would probably be too late then.

She closed her eyes and sighed, turning away from the tunnel. She was starting to feel sick. A lot of activity in the last few days, what with her whole travelling to fornax, collecting rocks, and now everything just felt really really hot. She guessed it was from the tunnel that had opened up. The heat it had blown right in her face didn't seem to go away and it made her feel like she had a fever.

She stumbled over the bones to a pool that she knew was nearby but by the time she got there, to her dismay, the little hollow where the water had once been had dried up. It was all still wet, but the water was gone. She frowned. How many other pools throughout Canis had dried up? Resigning herself to another search, she trudged through the bone room, slowly and lethargically, exhausted and thirsty.

As the creature lumbered by, Wilder had half a mind to ignore it, in her state of exhaustion. But the opportunity was too good to miss. Wilder could not, ever, just walk by someone without at least saying hello. Maybe getting a new friend too. She looked up and back at the hulking beast, but made no comment on its strange, strange shape. She had, unfortunately, forgotten about the pearl that Squick had left here, so it did not occur to her that this might possibly be it.

She scampered up besides it, pushing past her lethargy and thirst and bringing a smile to her face. "Hello! I'm Wilder!" She glanced over it, wondering if she should lie and say it was pretty or give it a different compliment. Because in her mind, a compliment was necessary to start a good friendship! Or at least some kind of comment or something other then 'Hello, I'm Wilder.'

But, for the first time, she could think of absolutely nothing to say about the appearance of this creature. It was absolutely disgusting, but Wilder wasn't going to say that out loud so she ended up lamely bursting out with "I like your red stripe!"

Wilder blinked. Fruit? Was its name fruit? It wasn't a mystery for very long, though, and her ears twitched in understanding. "Ohh, are you hungry?" She flipped a paw over and stretched it out forward, as if to offer something to the creature, but there was nothing there. But then, suddenly there was something there. A banana. A very very sparkly banana. It was kind of small and it'd probably need more, but it was a start.

"Are you hot too? Is it making you hungry?" Of course, that wasn't at all how heat worked - hot made you thirsty, not hungry, but it was really the only thing that Wilder could connect to its hunger problem and why it couldn't get food itself. Or maybe it was looking for food. Maybe it was just a really bad hunter. Or it didn't hunt at all. It didn't matter, though - if she could eat these bananas, anyone could.

Wilder flinched a little bit as its massive jaws opened up and scooped up the banana right out of her pad. It occurred to her that if it wanted to eat her, then it could do so without a problem. She was very, very small. It was this sudden nervousness that perhaps impacted her next spell so the banana that appeared wasn't much bigger then the last, but she held it up to the beast anyways.

But she was being stupid. It was friendly. If it wanted to eat it, it would have done so already, considering that she'd only conjured up a tiny banana. So the tension in her bones faded and she was left a smiling cat once again. "Sorry, I'll make bigger ones for you. But here's another. I can make as many as you need!"

Wilder didn't flinch this time when the beast grabbed the fruit from her. Obviously, it was greatly enjoying the food she was supplying and didn't have an intent on stopping. So, as quickly as it ate the last one, she conjured another one and held it out. This time, the banana was much bigger and it toppled out of her small paw on the ground between them.

She just simply stepped back a bit and pushed the banana forward. "Do you have a name?" she asked casually as she watched it feast.