Tema hummed again as Carja bumped into her, nodding without really meaning to. It wasn't her plan to rest when she had things to do, but her throat was beginning to burn from trying to silence her yawns. Besides, she barely made a good hunter when fully rested.

"Thank you."

Why had she ever worried in the first place? She had always had others to fall on when she needed it, even when a perfect stranger took time out of their day to teach her to hunt. The world had been kind to her until now, save for her missing friend. Surely it would be okay to let Carja continue her work for the morning.

Her happy thoughts were interrupted as Kitty went stiff after touching the helmet, frozen. She stayed liked that for a moment, Tema staring helplessly and confused until she broke from the spell, gasping and panicked.

"Are you alright?!"

Now having been enlightened to how Kitty's history telling worked, Tema felt guilty for not having warned her where the helmet had come from. She had hoped it would show a story of it's making, or maybe shed light on the kind of creature that had warn it... but to witness its death? She had a hard enough time looking at sleeping deer spiders... How terrifying it must have been to watch them descend upon you.

"I'm sorry, Kitty. I..." She what? She hadn't known this would happen. Lacking the words to finish her sentence, she went silent instead, waiting for Kitty to recover.

Tema listened as Kitty spoke, enjoying the group cuddle. It was still strange to her, being smaller than Carja, but it was also rather nice to feel protected. She wondered if that's why Carja had cuddled into her so often as a little one. Carja's comment made Tema cringe though, reminding her of the spiders that she knew Kitty had seen.

"I saw them, the spiders." She admitted, a small shiver running down her back. "It must have been horrible to watch them..." She stopped, the blank space in her sentence making her heart ache. Still... Tema found herself tempted to return, to look for whatever it was the helm-wearer had been trying to get to. Wouldn't it be beautiful if she could reunite the two in some way, long after they were gone? She was quite the dreamer.

"Keep away from the South side of this cave, okay? That's where they were. Their webs are really strong." She warned the two, hoping that knowing where the things were would help them relax. Mentioning the webs reminded her of her first use of their new spell... Maybe that would provide a welcomed change of topics?

"I found something else, too." She added vaguely, not wanting to drag a conversation on if the others just wanted to eat and rest.

Tema lifted herself to make as much room for Carja as she could, setting her head on the dragon's to cover her. It didn't make a big difference, but she tried.

"Hey, it's alright. They won't come to us here. Maybe we can speak to Sunny when we find her, okay? Look for somewhere nicer to settle... Somewhere brighter." She shifted to groom Carja's head, despite her scales being clean. It was comforting to Tema, the repetitive motions and soft tongue gliding across her fur. She hoped it would help Carja calm down, too. In truth? She would also love nothing more than to move, even if it meant having to restart her moss garden.

Glad that Kitty took her up on the offer to change the subject, Tema paused in her grooming to offer a smile.

"Have you noticed that when we all gather together like this, our magic... combines?" She tried to look for the right words, not really knowing exactly how it worked. "I tried calling on it, and it opened this... Pocket. In the air." She tried to call for the same magic again, to show them. She wanted to see if she could pull stuff out, too.

Failing to reach wherever the new spell had come from, Tema sighed. "I'll have to try again. But I'll show you!" She announced, determined to learn this new magic. Until then she had only used plant-related magic, so this was a brand new skill to master. "Maybe you can use it too?" She added, curious to see if her theory was right.

Tema hummed as Carja and Kitty each summoned the spell, one putting the helmet in the space and the other... You could pull things out! She was particularly fascinated with that, glad that it could be used for transporting things. She wondered what its limits were, but that was a test for another time.

"I think everyone can use it, then! Well, all of us at least." She practically sang the statement, thinking of all the ways that their pawless friends could make use of it.

Still determined to summon the slimespace for herself (even though she very much disliked slime), Tema called for her magic again. It responded this time... kind of. Her gem sputtered to life with flickers of light, but the familiar warmth she loved so much didn't appear. A portal still blipped into existence, though, which she counted as a success.

Until she stuck her paw in it, that is.

A rather pointed rock had tried to pop itself out as she had tried to put her paw in, resulting in an unpleasant collision. Tema ripped her paw out with a surprised growl, glaring at her slimy paw as the portal snapped shut and disappeared like a child trying to avoid being scolded for accidently tripping up their parent. Not only had she summoned an entirely different object than what she had aimed for, she also ended up with her paw more coated in slime than it had previously been coated in mud.

"Maybe we should be careful before we just reach inside it." She mumbled before pulling the pebble from her paw and tossing it out of the clearing. She was certainty more awake now.