Fireborn: Healer's Work

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Mist carefully poured the wine into each small bottle of herbs, tilting the bottle gently to keep the sediment out of the medicines. It wouldn’t hurt the medicine, of course, but it didn’t look good, and she didn’t want patients worrying that the tincture had spoiled. She placed the last of the wine by the stove to use for cooking, then carefully tapped a cork into each of the small medicine bottles.

Then she went to look out the door and windows. Orchid and her friends were nowhere in sight, nor were the neighbors. “Good, I can finish this properly,” she murmured.

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Fireborn: Healer's Work

Fireborn starts here.

MIST

Mist carefully poured the wine into each small bottle of herbs, tilting the bottle gently to keep the sediment out of the medicines. It wouldn’t hurt the medicine, of course, but it didn’t look good, and she didn’t want patients worrying that the tincture had spoiled. She placed the last of the wine by the stove to use for cooking, then carefully tapped a cork into each of the small medicine bottles.

Then she went to look out the door and windows. Orchid and her friends were nowhere in sight, nor were the neighbors. “Good, I can finish this properly,” she murmured.

( Read more... )

If you're reading this, I'd really like to hear from you!   Questions are welcome.  If you don't have a specific comment or question, even a smiley would be appreciated. Your question may lead to a short story, or enrich the plot of this ongoing story. (If you're not signed in to LiveJournal, please identify yourself, it's pleasant to know who I'm talking with.)