Oh, this was very special to him. It was the first time anyone had been kind enough to give him a tangible gift. The food was going to be saved, and possibly shared. The cloth was going to be carefully taken care of. The hedgehog looked it over, his head tilting to both sides, a smile slowly growing.
“I can never thank you enough for this.” Everything about this place was beautiful. This was the kind of place he wanted his own world to be one day. Then humans would be as kind, and wonderful as this one was. “I’m only going to eat them if I really need them. Food is hard to come by where I’m from. It’s a precious resource. We can’t grow it.”
“No need. Y’deserve it, hun. Everyone needs some healthy food in their lives.”
“And that’s a pretty good idea. It’s good to keep spare rations around just in case.”
They couldn’t grow food in his world? Was it a desert?
“I’m gonna take a guess and ask if water is rare there too? The best way to grow berry trees is to take some brown leaves and scatter them around the bottom of the trunk. It’ll help give it nutrients if you don’t have a lot of soil to work with.
If you’re able to grow one tree with the berries and soil I gave you, don’t doubt if you can grow more. It takes time and effort but I think you can do it.”
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