Sun Mote Copse The Art of the Dinner Date

"I don't know much about medicine - you should probably ask Eljay - he might be more precise in his knowledge," Wraen replied, after she had looked through the thin volume of medicinal plants inside her mental library and had not found anything that could be of any use to Sugar Glider. Besides - healing was a complex art and she did not want the responsibility of teaching the girl incorrectly. Too much was at stake.

"But I do know that in spring you can eat the new shoots of the evergreens," she added and walked over to a small spruce with thin branches that happened to be in their way. "The new ones will appear at the very tip of each branch," she pointed out and scrunched her nose, when needles prickled it. "They are bright, lush green and very soft. I do not know, if they do you any good - healing wise - but they are not poisonous," she finished her story. They tasted funny as well, but that depended on, what people preferred.