Redhawk Caldera On the mend.

She watched him eat the medicine and was actually impressed at how well he took it, considering it was his first time (that she knew of, anyway). She'd gotten all sorts of different reactions over the years from various patients who weren't used to eating anything other than meat. The most interesting had been just recently, when a wolf she'd just met ate too many berries too fast and had an attack of uncontrollable, horrible diarrhea in the middle of a conversation.

The boy still worried, though. "It'll work," she assured him. "If you need more poppy, there's plenty of room for us to increase your dose without messing up your head or getting you addicted. This really is a super-light dose." Having spent most of an entire season last year experimenting on herself with the drug, she considered herself something of an expert and felt comfortable working with it. "We can keep it minimal and limit it to those days when your pain really sucks. But I definitely think you should do the echinacea every day."