Blackfeather Woods How to save a life

Potema, like her brother, diligently began her task. Since she was the more experienced with herbs, she was given the job of chewing up the harder plants: the roots and seeds. Luckily for her, the roots were soft, and barely gave her any trouble as she gnawed them into a pulp. The princess divided the pulp into four parts, like her mother, and set them on each pile that her mother made.

The seeds were hard though. Being so small, they would be hard to chew. The princess stared at the wrap of seeds, wondering how she could possibly manage to crush them. Then she realized it. Potema ran to the edge of the infirmary, grabbed a rock in her mouth, and returned to the circle. With the rock, she began smashing it on the seeds, pausing every once and a while to scrape pulp off of the rock until all of it thoroughly crushed, in her eyes.