Is she sure she wants to do this? Because the ferret will gladly eat it if she does offer it…

Yes. Let the ferret try it first.

Well, the ferret tries it!

… She's pretty sure there was a ferret there before, right?

Thario looks slightly confused.

"...Where'd it go?"

"It's… there, I think?" he says. Headtilt.

It seems to be invisible! Probably. But for some reason, Elleira can't quite look precisely where the ferret was before.

"I can't- perceive it, anymore?"

"Yeah. Um. That's kinda weird?" he tilts his head a bit more. "It's sort of like I can tell there's a blob of… not. While everything else is."

It's not quite like that for Elleira, but it definitely seems to be that she can't perceive it.

"Can you tell where it is well enough to try to pick it up?"

"I think so?" he says, and moves slowly, trying to grab it.

When he picks it up… it seems like his hands really aren't where they should be? Apparently the effect isn't totally limited to the ferret.

"That's... disconcerting. The effect's extended to your hands now."

"Hm," he says, looking down at the ferret – and then suddenly, the ferret is back! The weird effect seemed to suddenly stop.

Blink.

"At least it's not permanent. Time-based, or did you do something?"

"Time-based, I think."

Does the ferret seem to still be healthy?

It does! It hasn't changed color at all, nor has it dropped dead, nor does it even look particularly sad!

She'll try a piece of fruit herself, then.

She goes… slightly hard to see! Including to herself. It's not as strong an effect as it was on the ferret.

Thario relates this to her.

"Can you still hear me if I talk?"

"Yeah, but it feels kinda– slippery?" he says. "I can see you, too, you'd just be a lot easier to miss if you were camouflage or something."

"Might be useful to take some of this with us, in case we run into trouble."

"Yeah," he agrees. "And hopefully it has some nutritional content."

He looks around for some and makes a mental note of where this is, then suggests they keep looking for other types.

Good idea.

Walk walk walk through the weirdly dark forest.

Green fruit! Blue fruit! Brown fruit! Some types of nuts, some glowing fruit, some multicolored fruit.

Would they like to try them now or would they just like to maybe grab a few?

Some of each, along with a bundle of brush, then back to the lake.