King Elk Forest instruo

He waited patiently - not that she noticed - as she worked.
Carefully excavating the soft soil around the bulk of the roots, hoping to cut off as few as possible.
He seemed to want to know more as she worked. Totally cool.

"Uh, I s'pose you just eat 'em."
She shrugged. He might think of her as a medic. Nah. She couldn't administer treatments, she didn't have enough knowledge. But collecting plants was harmless enough and the real medics could tell her if they were the right ones or not.

She reached down and gingerly took the soily root in her mouth, pulling slowly to pull the flower up mostly whole.
Perfect!
She let it flop to the side so she could ask Germanicus "Would you mind taking the leaves?"
He surely wouldn't but thought it better to ask than just assume.​