Herbalists' Cache Hoping to hit you somewhere vital

There was a softening in her eyes and a small but genuine nod as she swallowed down a lump in her throat. Ibis...Valette...now Aphrodite...the kindness of strangers that usually left her with reasons to keep on pushing herself through each day. Thankfully the lesson was quick to start and Lainie stared with wide startled eyes at the amount of information whilst sorting it in her head resulting in her brows drawing together creating quite the comical expression. Willow bark..."Willow is the pale bark trees right? That kind of peel off sometimes?" she wanted to make sure she wasn't just soaking some useless treebark in water to munch on..."Do you drink the water or chew the bark? or maybe both? Lainie hadn't realised how much she'd need to ask, to clarify...or was she just dumb and anxious? She frowned at the thought of waiting another two days for a good night's sleep and supposed the Valerian root would do on it's own ridding her of nightmares. The fear of them still being there....that was what would keep her heart racing at night. Trying to ensure she wouldn't forget she was almost too deep in thought to process the joke but when she did a small peal of laughter rose from within "Gross. Does it make your breath smell?" she could picture herself as a small child running after Polaris huffing some rancid breath at her and laughing gleefully, tail swaying at her hinds as she followed the train of conversation back to the lesson. Bitter Leaf...the plant at the woman's paws. For anxiety...."Anxiety...thats just being really really anxious all the time right?" she felt it resonate...it stung, was that what was wrong with her? Why every day sucked beyond normal suckery and it was...so impossible to drag herself away now that she'd lost her rock. Papa....

"Crystals?" She perked up eyes lighting up at the thought of those magical sparkly rocks she'd only heard about. "They..how do they heal? You can eat them?" She asked eyeing the woman with a little less faith muzzle wrinkling and brows shifting into the dubious expression only a child could muster. 

I'm really really sorry this took so long. I'm having a hard time keeping active at all. I'd really like to continue if you can give me another shot to reply better <3