hope this is okay!! <3 backdated so it's set in early feb!
Today, Lorelai sought out
@Erzulie. She'd gotten the information needed to deliver her babies - and that time was approaching so swiftly that the poor girl didn't know what to do with herself - and now she needed to know how to care for those who got sick, or injured. She would be Sacrarium's first healer and pup-sitter, after all.
Lorelai nodded at Erzulie's words; the whelps in her belly were growing restless, just like their mother. She sighed softly, then shifted to a more comfortable laying position. "What do I do when someone gets hurt? I don't know about any herbs..." There was still so much for her to learn - was there even enough time? She looked to Erzulie, cerulean gaze wide with worry.
Would it be okay to assume that over the last month-ish IC, Erzulie will have taught Lorelai about
this stuff? Just so she has all the knowledge she needs to succeed and thrive! <3
Lorelai listened intently as Erzulie spoke - she truly was hanging onto every word, grateful that her nightmares had been leaving her be so far. She followed the older woman to where she kept her medicine, all the while trying to gauge the distance from Sacrarium and the sea - it had to be at least ten miles, if not more. That would be easy to get, once she had her puppies. Lorelai nodded, telling Erzulie, "I understand. So... That purple stuff is the comfrey? What other herbs should I look out for?"
absolutely! also assume that erz has taught her to fish and hunt on the shoreline in case that knowledge would be useful to sacrarium :D
"this is all kelp. two kinds, green an' purple. comfrey grows where dere be sand or clay. you should be aware of what plants ease pain. dere be de wide red flowers of poppy, which grows in open places near water. dere be chamomile, little yellow an' white flowers; look for dem in meadows." another pause to ensure lorelai was following. "chamomile is best given to mot'ers two weeks before birt'. it makes for an easier labour. poppy can kill. use it very sparingly an' only for de most grievous woun's."
Lorelai thought, then she settled for the Vicera herself. "Violante would help me, I know she would." But to take something addicting? She worried about taking something so strong. She frowned, and then even deeper as Erzulie asked about gods and spirits. Lorelai pondered this for several long moments, then eventually answered, "Well... well daddy's dead... and I see him a lot. Hear him, too. So... maybe it's his spirit?" But then, what about those voices, or the visions, of the living? "Can living spirits talk, too, or just the dead ones?"
Lorelai's past had been rough to say the least, and she didn't like to think or talk about it if she could help it. Her upbringing had been very rocky to say the least. Her mother had been sick, just as Lorelai was - and that was exactly how her family had talked about it. It was an illness, it meant something was wrong with her. But what Erzulie was saying contradicted what she'd been told - and it made her curious to hear more. At Erzulie's questions, the young woman nodded meekly. "He sounds the same... he looks..." she had to pause, to think; whenever he appeared, she closed her eyes. But she remembered him vividly. "The same scars on his face... he looks... younger than when he died, but not much..." She swallowed, then added in a whisper, "He was always scary. I don't know what's scarier - him how he was, or... how I see him now..."
of course! <3 i will archive! cant wait to see what she does!
erzulie smiled. "of course. you rest an' eat. i will be here to teach again when you be ready."
for herself, she would go to the sea's welcoming embrace.
touching the younger woman's shoulder gently, the obsidian moved away, allowing lorelai the respite of her own den for a time.