Blaze

Your body weakly stumbles through the thicket branches and you step into the mossy entrance of a hillside cave. The heavy underbrush you just pushed through had kept the strong smells mostly hidden, but now your nose is filled with smells so intense your eyes dilate and your ears droop. A slow, low, and cheery voice greets you and you simply wag your tail in response. Coming here you already feel better and are struggling to remember what malady you had. The wolf trots over gently and sniffs and explores your body, inhaling, sniffing, and puffing at your fur and glands. You subconsciously lean into the nosing wolf and only snap out of it after she's already trotted away quietly humming to herself. You take a few slow steps towards her, but she's already coming back with a pouch, flint, and a stone tool. Your nose twitches as you try to focus on her but you just want to lie on the soft floor...

She claws open the pouch and places a small plant on the broad, flat stone towards the back of the room, you only realize now that she's been speaking to you the entire time, you haven't caught a word but she's turned silent now and all you can pick up is the soft, methodical grinding of her tool turning the plant to a powder. Rolling over on the floor you feel your body relaxing to a state you've never experienced before. Your body feels like its gently rocking, waves roll in your head and chest, you hear something that sounds vaguely like crashing waves, and light starts to twinkle off of the various bits of natural metals and gems scattered across the cave ceiling. A crackling sound from behind you tickles your ears and the back of your skull, it makes your tongue loll out of your mouth. You suddenly feel playful and it's now that the wolf comes back, gently smiling, she leans down next to you and lines up your muzzles. You see smoke and inhale it as she urges you, your head feels heavy and your whole body feels slower and more fluid. Your head falls down softly into the moss you're lying on. Again the wolf is back and instructs you to inhale, this time when she leans down you're already craning your neck to meet her muzzle with yours, you inhale and she softly laughs.

The small fire she has been using continues to crackle softly, she lies next to you and runs her nose across various points of your chest and trunk, each time she does you feel a full body tingle and sink even deeper into this dream state. She is now simply gently grooming your head and face, you can't tell if you'd fallen asleep, maybe you're still asleep?