The pretty feline was grateful, thanking him as she freed herself of the rubble. She seemed fine. He shook his head, a bit winded from his casting, promising that it was no problem to him at all. Then, the little strange one came wandering over with a corpse of a rat and the other cat tore it from his grasp. He watched attentively as they argued.

Perhaps he'd be the only one to take notice of the powder, the other two busy with their values and ideals.

He wandered over to where the rat landed, eyes locked on that dusting of orange powder. Strange...

His eyes turned back to where it'd sat gnawing before. Carefully, he pawed his way back over there and stood above the rat's place of death. Here, he'd begin scouring for any signs of a trail of this powder, wary of using his nose lest he get any of it into his system.

He hadn't noticed Aeroth inhaling any of it. He didn't think it bad yet. Just unknown and strange.

Carni didn't immediate answer Aeroth as he shuffled around the cave, nose near the floor and wings scooping to either side as if helping the scents to linger by his face. When he finally did raise his head again, his jaws were parted and lips peeled back, flehman response.

"There was something wrong with that rat." He explained. "I rarely see rats in Canis that aren't half-starved and flighty. That one was obsessive and totally oblivious." He shuffled a paw over the stone floor and glanced towards the exit. "It leads out... I'm going to follow it." He turned back to Aeroth with a charming smile. "You can follow me if you'd like, though I'm not sure how far it goes." With that he headed for the tunnel leading into Orion, back on the trail.

( Exit Carni, headed for A Scream and then to Eridanus)