Jade Fern Grove his heart was trapped in a cage

yarrow? brisbane inquires rhetorically, a bit distractedly as he collects his own bounty of moss. depends on what you're usin' it for. if you eat a small dosage of it, it'll cause you to throw up which is good for expelling poison. on the other side of that is ingest too much and it's a poison itself, which tended to be the case with pretty much any medicinal herb that was ingested his mother'd been sure to warn him when he'd begun to take an interest in botany. if you're chewing it into a salve and putting it on a wound it kills and stops the spread of infection. he continues after he returned back to the bank of the creek, watching as she limps back to him.

should be more than enough. he assures her as she deposits her own collection with his own. i'm going to start chewing little bits of it into a salve and then apply it to the wound in small sections to ensure that the entirety of the wound has a consistent coverage of moss, brisbane explains, walking her through what he's going to do in steps, inspired to give her the walk-through by her curiosity thus far. i don't recommend lettin' it on for any more than two days at most and water should wash it out without too much issue. he then takes a small mouthful of their gathered moss and begins to chew it into a paste — trying not to think about how much he hates the texture of moss all the while.