Rurik shook his head. "You, like, eat them. Or chew them up and rub them on like, wounds, and stuff." He was patient, above anything else. It was impossible for one so young to know these things. It was only right to teach those who did not know, for sharing knowledge could never lead to bad things. It was only ignorance, truly, that led to darkness and terror. He laid his head atop his forelegs, his head tilted towards Triton. With an aptitude for asking questions like he had, Rurik was sure that the boy would never be willfully ignorant. That would keep him on a good path. He listened to the boy and smiled genuinely at his words, nodding along as he spoke. Perhaps it wasn't exactly what he meant, but everyone had a different perspective.

"All of our experiences are shared together in one collective consciousness. Like, the birds, the trees, do you know how much they must see? When you, like, tap into that, you'll be able to experience everything all at once. Or something like that." He'd heard something about that from his Dad, something about the spirit journeys that his old pack used to do as a coming-of-age ceremony. He'd mentioned that everything was a whole, that there was no true 'self.' When he was really little, he thought of it as all a bunch of garbage, but now he knew it to be true. He'd experienced too much for it not to be true.

He couldn't help but grin at Triton's determination. Rurik was glad that someone, at least, appreciated his point of view. Everyone was too caught up with the here and now to look for anything beyond what they could see and feel normally. It was a real shame. But then the boy beside him went on to ask how he could learn these things, if there was a course or something else. Rurik laughed and shook his head. "Nope, little man. But I'll guide you, if you want me to." He wasn't too much younger, after all. Maybe they could learn something from each other.