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Date Posted: 06:34:31 08/28/02 Wed
Author: Rashi
Subject: : learning :
In reply to: Derba and Rashi 's message, ": Herb Lesson :" on 11:22:23 08/26/02 Mon

Silently Rashi walked around in the swamps, placing each feet were the earth were harder and not so wet. She knew this area well, Derba had taken her here many times, learning her to always keep her eyes open for herbs and plants that would be important. Even keep her eyes open for people as well, see them for who they were and not who they pretended to be. Rashi smilde, it reminded her of her mother who wanted to be something she could never be. Sad, too.
Pushing her curled hair behind her ears she bendt down and started to dig a bit in the swamp. Moss and the like were gently lifted as she cut a 'hole' with a bone handled knife she always had in her belt. Then she stuck both hands in the black earth and pulled up a black rooth. With a smile she put the moss back over the hole, to cover her tracks and walked over to Derba.
"This is a Rodan Root," she explained with a smile. Showing the old woman a crocked, twised root with a fairly large size. "It grows only in swamps or wetlands and you can find it be seeing small grasslike tufts where it grows." She turned the root in her hands as she explains, pushing her hair back her ear again, and in the prosses turning her cheeck dirty with soil. "If it's not black it's not ready for use, they're rather greish then. And you can either dry it and crush the root into a porridge that you can eat. That will help someone who's pregnant not to loose their child. If you on the other hand just chew it right away, it will calm you down and make you.. sort of sleepy." She held the root up, knowing that Derba wouldn't most likely not touch it and waited for her 'grade'.

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[> [> : teaching : -- Derba, 10:02:04 08/31/02 Sat

"Good," she said with a aprooving smile. "That were all right, but you didn't mention that the Rodan Root only grows during summer and autumn, and that the Yellow Lady grows during the summer and the beginning of autumn." The women got up using her walking staff, turning and looking over the sky. As if she were hearing a voice that weren't there. "I think we should head home, Rashi," she finaly said and started to walk with the young apprentice right behind. "You are doing well, it might not be long before you know what I do - and even more..." She chuckled as the two figures went further away from the Swamps and towards teh Clan.

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