Haunted Wood Give me all your pain

❝Mhm,❞ Atka responded, her speech still muffled as she carried the rabbit skin beside him. ❝Plenty for external wounds, the pain and infection that come with, but hoping to find something for coughs beside the stream.❞

As she headed towards the stream next to Dreven her mind was all over the place again. This was sweet of him, but also extremely useful. Her worries of the winter began to subside as time went on, and now with medicine to support them, and a known place to collect it. Perhaps Khasni would be pleased with what they brought back as well. Even if her worries about this winter became smaller every passing day, the lingering idea that Aludin may return, and then having no idea how things would look after concerned her. Atka pushed those thoughts out of her head as they approached the riverbank.

She set the rabbit skin down, making sure the plants inside did not fall out. She made her way over to a clump of weeds in hope the flower she sought was there.

❝Hm, there's wild lettuce but I don't- oh!❞ Atka gladly dug up the wild lettuce as well as the nodding onion beside it. ❝This works in place of the evening primrose, but if we see any on the way back we can get it.❞

Atka returned to the pelt, nestling the collection together.

❝I'll be prepared for coughs, pain, and external injuries, but preserving them may be difficult... I can figure out some way to by stream that borders The Heartwood for what doesn't need to be dried. I'd have to return here every now and then though.❞ She was filled to the brim with knowledge of the plant life, but her Aunt still had plenty to teach her, but that was cut short.