teach me all that you know | phase II herb patrol + lesson

[robinheart]

Robinheart's breath clouds the air as she limps alongside Moonbeam, RiverClan's camp a distant din behind them. The territory sings its wintry song as mentor and apprentice cast appraising gaze upon whatever greenery can be seen. Another herb patrol, this one much more intimate than some of the previous patrols. Moonbeam wishes to use this time to teach the tortoiseshell, and she is more than happy to oblige.

A patch of herbs, sheltered from killing frost, lend themselves to Robinheart's first lesson. "What do these herbs do?" She asks politely, a speckled paw lightly brushing over the leaves. They will pluck them from the earth soon enough – whenever Moonbeam feels satisfied with her lesson and compelled to continue the search for more teaching material.

// rolled a 19! Found ultra rare treatment worth 3 points (respiratory infection treatment)
@Moonbeam ​

[ penned by kerms ]​

 

[Moonbeam]

With the battle for sunningrocks over it meant that there was less dire needs for herbs than would be otherwise. Sure with the chill that cut through the air sooner than it should it meant that the hunt for the stalks that the medicine cats used for their healing would be needed quickly - especially with the increased risk of infection from the battle, with the increased risk of illness sweeping through the clan like it had the last cycle of seasons and like it would likely do this cycle - but the herbs that they needed now were not ones that would easily be pointed out to those uninterested in things that were not battle training or hunting. Their attention spans were only so long, their ability to learn things they were not interested in only so short, and she would not bore her clanmates with teachings of things they would forget about the second they were no longer on the patrol anyway.

So the two pad out together, each step the breath of a cloud out into the chill air as they go out searching for whatever herbs they could find so that she could point them out while they were still green and connected to the ground, while they still had moisture running through them instead of being dried out within the divots dug out on the floor of her den, within the walls. "It's for respiratory infections," She begins the lesson, paws moving carefully around the base of the plant to show Robinheart where she should pluck them at, for useless bits of the plant were not worth taking most of the time. "They don't cure every infection, but can help with the symptoms of those it doesn't cure... like yellowcough. It'll help with the coughing, make it easier to breathe." These were one of the first things she had learned under Ravensong, and so the cycle would continue.

She moves further once the herb is picked, towards clusters of herbs that grew despite the frost that surrounded them. "Do you remember what these are for?" It'd been hectic but the plants that Moonbeam carefully brushed the frost from their leaves had been one of the ones used after the battle for sunningrocks.

CAUSE LIKE CONTELLATIONS ꕥ A MILLION YEARS AWAY

• -- rolled an 11 // found common herbs worth 1 point (wound treatment, cobwebs)
• ꕥꕥꕥꕥꕥ flesh wounds
  ꕥꕥꕥꕥꕥ infections
  ꕥꕥꕥꕥꕥ aches & pains
  ꕥꕥꕥꕥꕥ illness
  ꕥꕥꕥꕥꕥ breathing
  ꕥꕥꕥꕥꕥ traveling
  ꕥꕥꕥꕥꕥ broken bones
  ꕥꕥꕥꕥꕥ kitting
  ꕥꕥꕥꕥꕥ poisons
• 
  ꕥ SH white masking cinnamon torbie w/orange eyes & small ears
  ꕥ 15 moons old; ages the 17th every month
  ꕥ homosexual polyromantic ; mated to beefang, crushing on redacted
  ꕥ currently mentoring none
  ꕥ "speech", thoughts, attacking
  ꕥ easy in combat unless in water, focuses on defensive tactics

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