Kaimana was just sitting in her den, chillin'. Painting a rock with some crushed berries. Nothing too spectacular. Levi and Comet might be out doing something crazy, and James might be chatting up a "friend" enjoying the day elsewhere. Kaimana didn't really know. She wasn't entirely too concerned. If anyone needed anything, they knew where she would be.

Motherhood was turning out to be unlike anything Kaimana had expected or ever could expect. And she hadn't expected anything, really. This was a ride she was moving with, a wave she was simply being swept up by. Why swim against such an interesting and powerful current? She was following it, seeing where it went, and it was the most frustrating and enlightening and beautiful and wonderful thing she had ever seen. She was thankful every day she could wake up and know... she was not alone in this.

Painting was a time of introspection. I'll leave the rest of those thoughts up to imagination. Her rock turned out disastrous, by the way. In the midst of her thoughts, Kaimana seemed to have forgotten where the rock actually was. Now she had berries on her fur! Oh well.

@Comet @Esther

Comet had been reluctant to visit Fornax after the Redfang-GiantOctopus-WeirdRunes-Almostdrowning-Energyhorse incident. But that was where Kaimana and Levi lived, which overrode her uncertainty of going completely. She stayed far away from the water this time, not allowing the water to touch her paws.

The pup had encased the mace in a block of ice, and was sliding it across the sand. By the time she arrived at the jaguar's cave, it had completely melted, to reveal its dangerous spikes. "Kaimana? Look what I found!" Comet had spotted her doing some painting which didn't seem to be going very well.

@Esther

Esther had decided to go with Comet back to this gembound that could see things they could not. Really, they hadn't been wanting to go with Comet, but when she said her friend might be able to tell them what the skeleton had belonged to... Well they had instantly become interested. Currently, they were carrying one of those bones in their mouth, it wouldn't break within their jaws. Teeth too small to do much damage unless they were actively trying to break it to get to the marrow inside.

They did spot the one who Comet spoke of, some kind of feline with berries smeared on her fur. Perhaps she was trying to create something with it, but it didn't appear to actually be working. The dark-eyed gembound set the bone down in front of their own legs and next to comet, staying quiet for now.

@Kaimana

Hearing a call from a familiar voice was a pleasant surprise indeed! Was that Comet, returned from one of her ubiquitous adventures? Kaimana faced the noise and found that-- yup! 'Twas the pup, along with a... gooey friend, it seemed. Both carrying a... rather dangerous looking object. Kaimana's instinctual grin faltered under the weight of sudden confusion. "Comet! Welcome back, and hello to your friend. I see that you have found something... certainly peculiar. I am guessing you want me to check it out for you...?" As Kaimana's eyes locked in on the object, the jaguar attempted to flair up magic in her vision. Some items could be magical! This mysterious object looked like it could certainly have the potential to be magical... and dangerous.

But, yikes! Her magic backfired. It was nothing as dramatic as, Kaimana imagined, a water spell going haywire. There would be no flood to swim out of, thank goodness. Instead, she got a peck in the eyes, like a pinch but metaphysical, and a headache came on. The jaguar blinked and shook her head a little. "Where did you find it?"

@Comet

"Yes! I'm hoping that you would be able to know things about it. Like if it's dangerous or not or if it has magic!" Well, of course it was dangerous. It was a mace for goodness sake. Comet pushed the object closer to Kaimana and sat down.

"I went exploring in Ursa with them," she motioned to Esther, "And we found this next to some HUGE bones in the tunnel!" At this point, the jaguar was probably used to the pup bringing and doing crazy things.

@Kaimana (Let's go back and forth)

Of course, for magic and definitely for danger. The danger seemed obvious. Kaimana willed what strange sight magic she had to work again. Thankfully this time, it managed. In fact, the result was... hm. "I have checked it for magic, and there is certainly something there. Something dangerous. Shall I check the history of it next?" She was a little unsure if she... wanted to... but if Comet desired it, then she would try.

"Ursa? Is that one of the new caves?" So the weapon had been beside a pile of bones. Well that was... ominous. Exciting, even. Indeed, Kaimana was used to the grander scale of Comet's adventures. "Was there... anything else besides bones?" Maybe Ursa should be generally avoided from here on out. But maybe not. Clearly Comet had gone there and made it back okay. Any more information about Ursa wouldn't be gained for the sake of limiting Comet. Perhaps for limiting Kaimana herself instead.

@Comet

Red heat and throbbing pulse. Claws, fangs, and a snarl. Bones and blood, muscle and adrenaline. Venom and fear, hunger and predation. Every instinct that made a beast a beast; survival, at all costs.

A thread of this ran through the mace, a trickle of this magic.

Whatever enchant lays upon the mace, it is of the Animal element.

@Kaimana @Comet

Esther let the two speak to one another for a little while, toning out their voices to take a look around. The entire cave was misty and somehow warm, but wouldn't water make things colder? It didn't really matter anyway, the maned wolf decided. They wouldn't be here for long anyway. Just to see what kind of creature the bones belonged to - if the other thing could see that. Comet said it should for the most part anyway.

At the question besides bones, Esther didn't know how to answer it.

"Well I mean... There was some tunnels leading to a place that smelled kind of weird." The maned wolf replied.

"If something like that was in there you'd think another thing was that killed it, though."

@Comet @Kaimana

Comet nodded at the maned wolf's words. Now that she thought about it, it certainly was strange that only a skeleton and mace had been there. What had killed it?

Hmm, dangerous magic. She couldn't say that was surprising given that maces were literally made to be used as weapons... which are dangerous. "Yep! It's really snowy. Like Polaris some time ago but the snow was everywhere!"

"Well, if it has magic. Would you be able to see what it does?"

@Kaimana

So there were some tunnels that led to a strange-smelling room. Comet's new, gooey friend hypothesized that whatever might have made that skeleton had probably been in that place. That was certainly a sound theory, and perhaps a much more safe and hopeful belief than the idea that the killer was somewhere they DIDN'T know about. In other words, if something deadly was down those tunnels, then at least they knew it was down in those tunnels. The concept that a deadly beast was now somewhere unknown was far more... alarming.

Kaimana nodded her head at the mention of snow in Ursa. That was lucky. It meant bones and possible threats of doom weren't the only thing in Ursa. There was also snow! That was nice. Not nice enough to distract Kaimana from the latent destruction apparently located beneath all that snow. But still, nice.

"None of this bodes well-- except for the snow, I suppose. I do not know if I can see what this object does necessarily, but I can see a vision from its past. That might give us a clue as to what it does, perhaps even a clue as to what happened to cause that bone pile you found it beside." 'Or we could see EXACTLY what it does and EXACTLY what happened and it is so terrifying that I won't be able to speak about it.' Kaimana honestly doubted the possibility of that.

On another note, for reference: this weapon seemed dangerous. If something had managed to reduce its wielder to bones, then that something had to be incredibly dangerous. The past and present of the object were important, but the future of it was the most obscure, and possibly the largest worry in Kaimana's mind. Maybe if she could see any part of its past, she could prophesize its possible future.

Kaimana would tentatively put a paw on a not-sharp surface of the weapon. Then she would close her eyes.