She knew so many things! He hadn't any idea how much there was to learn about plants and herbs and mushrooms until today. Whether or not he would successfully retain all of this information would remain to be seen, but his attention was wholly fixated upon every word that left her lips.

Nen'tah crouched low to the ground as she lifted the cap of the mushroom to inspect its gills, densely packed and oddly rib-like in their appearance. His cheek touched the grass as he observed her demonstration and tried to follow along with her lesson. Very, very sick? How sick? What kind of sick?

But she said he could eat this one, so...

With her blessing already given the boy stood up, hovered over the little white mushroom, and promptly fit the whole thing in his mouth.

...

He chewed very thoughtfully for several seconds, and then immediately spit it out as a pile of wet mush.

Bleh.

It was perhaps the first real sound that had come out of his mouth in her presence. But it was progress.