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 Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:07 pm
 Valetudo'Sero loved being a mother, well for the most part, but she needed her space. Leaving the cubs with their father Val escaped into the savanna and once she knew that she was far enough away she dropped the illusion she wore around them. So now rather then looking like a normal lioness with a green pelt, her feathery plant like wings were quite visible on her back.
Not willing to reinstate the illusion or making it larger and herself completly invisible, Val roamed across the grasslands in all her goddess glory, randomly searching for various plants and herbs that she had run low on. She was only vaguely paying attention to her surroundings as she searched the ground, her ears only picking up the normal sounds of the savanna. She wasn't even aware of time passing and since she could just fly in close to where her family was staying she wasn't too worried about it either. ((she has access to her powers if it matters))
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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:16 pm
Shalkan had wandered outside of his home pride's lands, but it was only a temporary movement. He was smart enough to know that he couldn't find everything he needed within their lands, and when he began to run low on certain berries or leaves, he would wander out to gather some up.
Not was one of these times.
The white lion was light on his feet, and always aware of his surroundings, even if a stranger passing by didn't think so. Illusion was always the best offense, and so he wasn't too surprised when he had seen another lioness doing the same. He had learned his craft from another long ago, and knew that there was quite a network of healers around. He himself had just not run into any for quite a while.
Though, having leaves on your shoulders was a little odd, like "lookat me I'm a healer!" sort of business. Amused, he approached her.
"Hello there," he said with a proper bow to a lady.
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:00 am
Val was so absorbed in what she was doing that it was not until someone spoke to her that she realized that another had come upon her. Doing her best not to act as startled as she really was she looked up from a particular plant that Val knew was useful but had yet to figure out the best way to use it since it lost most of its useful properties when dried and crushed in its green form was too strong.
"Hello" Val said back and did a little head nod of her own. The white lion did not seem like he was threat and if she was not mistaken he had a slight sent about him that spoke of green things and of healing. Taking an educated guess that this was not a god in disguise that only left some type of healer, someone that Val as a goddess really enjoyed helping since that was the part of her knowledge that she liked, poisons were only a after thought almost.
Sensing no hostility Val decided to be polite but friendly, "I am sorry if I have encroached upon your land, I was just searching for a few plants to use in my healing mixes. My name is Valetudo'Sero although I do prefer to be called Val as its much easier to say." She smiled at her little joke as she waited to see exactly what the male would do and say.
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:00 pm
Shalkan shook his head, laughing. "No, no my lady, you are not in my lands. I'm not from here, merely gathering just the same as you are." He offered her a bow. "My name is Shalkan, and I hail from different lands. Not everything is available within my pride's boundaries, so I wander from time to time gathering what I need when it grows low."
His tail twitched, but decided to not comment on her leaves. Perhaps it was a sign of her homeland to wear leaves like that? And as he had a pouch to hold things, it didn't seem strange at all that she did, too.
"Is it safe to assume you are doing the same?" He asked, a small smirk on his face, as it was obvious that she was gathering, but for what, he hadn't a clue. Healer, yes, but for educational or emergency purposes remianed unknown to him.
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:54 am
"That is good to hear Shalkan, I would be terribly embarrassed if I had strayed where I should not have." Val smiled and added, "I, myself, am from everywhere and no where, with no place to call home but a family to go home to. I have found that many of the plants that I use is never growing where I am so a wanderer I must be." She smiled again at her well turned phrases. It wasn't often that she was able to say such things in such a way and it pleased her to no end to do so now.
"Yes it is quite safe to assume that I am gathering and searching for plants to use in my mixes." She answered his question after a moment of studying the male. She loved the decorations that stood out on his pale coat and thought about how he possibly added the patterns on his pouch, dyes most likely. "An herbalist by trade and passion." Val had not yet figured out that Shalkan did not realize that she was the goddess of herb lore.
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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:29 pm
Shalkan nodded his head. He could understand just where she was coming from. "Before my current home, I'd let my paws and the wind guide where I was to go. Now things are a bit different, but I still wander just a bit outside of the lands now and then to gather up what I need. It's nice to breathe the more wild air out here than that in my pride's land; the jungle is beautiful, but the wind doesn't play so freely within the trees."
His tail flickered as he thought for a moment, shooing away a pesky fly. Darn those things, always out more in annoyance when the weather was beautiful and warm.
"By trade, hm? I must agree, that's what helped me get to where I am today. With other healers within my pride, though, the weight of everything doesn't ride on my pale shoulders." He grinned, figuring that bargaining for food might work well out in the rogue lands. It wasn't something that to many creatures knew of, and the demand was probably always there.
"Thankfully, the little that I need to heal is spider bits and scrapes, nothing too serious."
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:37 pm
"But the jungle has such interesting plants and scents," Val said before conceding. "I think you are right thought, there is nothing like being out in the open air smelling the scents that the wind carries from far off places." It was this way that Val found most of the plants she needed, or so she thought. The goddess rarely consciously used any of her powers other then illusion, teleportation, and flight. She did her best to act as any mortal would so when she was searching for a rare plant she never consciously taped into her power that allowed her to find said plant just like she rarely had to use her power of near encyclopedic knowledge of the herbs and plants since it came naturally to her.
Val saw the bugs that were bothering Shalkan and knew why they, for the most part avoided her. She was about to tell him of a few of the plants she worked with that seemed to repel most bugs when he started to talk again so she made a mental note to tell him before she went on her way.
"Well not necessarily by trade. I do it because I can and its expected of me. I don't really ask for anything in exchange since I don't really need anything." She smiled sheepishly as she tried to make that point a little bit clearer. Since she was the goddess of herb lore it was expected that she become a herbalist but it did help that she loved to work with the plants and to help others, maybe that was part of her being the goddess that she was. "Aahh, I think that is also a reason I roam, so I don't have a lot of people depending solely on me. Although I often wonder about being in a pride."
"Thats good. What do you normally do for most of those?" Val was curious to see what the white healer would say, after all everyone had different ways of doing things.
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:41 pm
Shalkan nodded to her opinion on the jungles. There was more there than he had ever imagined, but other things just seemed to grow better on the open savanna. As she said, the wind and air, and the unforgiving sun might just be factors as to that. The jungle could be so thick and dense in some places that the sun could barely shine her rays through, and not much could grow in these areas unless it was really stubborn.
"Ah," he smiled. "Normally my patients are a little young, and I worry how they might react to anything I'm more used to giving an adult. Their small body size is something I'm not used to, I will admit. Normally I try to wash out the area and have a mixture of leaves and bark damp with water to cool the area, and slow the blood flow so the body can do its work."
He paused for a moment, wondering. "You're skilled. Do you have experience with cubs? Any advice? I worry too much about over dosing them, that I have never wondered what others might do in my position."
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:06 pm
Val nodded as Shalkan described how he treated his small patients, what he did was good but she did wonder a bit about what types of leaves and bark he used. When he asked her advice she voiced her questions. "Well first, what types of leaf mixes and bark do you use? Because you see there are types of bark that have healing properties such as willow bark. It is is used to ease pain and reduce inflammation but it can have side affects with the young. Luckily its not native to this area, I have to travel a very long way to get some." The willow family includes a number of different species of deciduous trees and shrubs native to Europe, Asia, and some parts of North America so Val tended to use her god given powers to telaport to the nearest plant which normally is quite a bit away.
"I understand about the fear of overdosing since much of what I work with, when given with high doses, can be deadly. I would suggest sticking with what your doing if its working after all you know what the plants are that are at hand." Val didn't know what to suggest since there were tons of different ways of treating injuries but she knew that Shalkan didn't have the same access to some items as she did.
((http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/willow-bark-000281.htm))
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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:41 pm
Shalkan's ears swiveled around, listening intently to what she had said. "Interesting..." he commented, wondering on just how this bark worked. He understood her warnings, and as it wasn't native to these lands he knew that he wouldn't be using it inadvertantly. Still, he wondered if a little experimentation might do him a little good. For now, though, he would keep to what he was doing.
"Helpful," he said with a nod. "Reminds me that treating the young ones always seem like a much greater risk than the adults." His tail twitched behind him as he let his mind wander a bit more. "Thanks, Val," he said with a smile. "There might be other parts of bark that I can use, even if only for something as minor as a brace." He hadn't quite thought of that before.
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:37 am
"I know. I don't really know why but then again I'm more of if it works and how it works then really why it works." Val smiled. As the goddess of Herb lore she knew quite a lot but why somethings work best on adults then cubs she could only speculate. "It might be because they are so much smaller then us the same dose for us would be too much for them. Or it could be that they are still developing in their bodies." She speculated out loud.
"You know I've never really thought of that. I mean I know about using braces and everything but I'm more of a tisanes and salves kind of a herbalist. Although I would think if you use the bark from certain trees they could help speed up the healing possess." Once again Val was thinking out loud. She really hadn't given much thought to braces, wraps yes but not braces. I guess I just don't encounter many times when a brace is necessary. the goddess thought.
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:26 am
Shalkan bobbed his head. "I've only had to deal with braces sparingly, usually from a fall in a hunting accident. Those gazelle are tricky beasts, I'll tell you!" He offered her a wink. Usually there were just scrapes, and sometimes he wasn't able to completely heal a leg. Most of it mattered on how much the patient wanted to get better. Their will power.
"Thanks for your wise words and musings," he complimented. "Sometimes others think of things that I could never think of myself. I quite like that, with an exchange of ideas comes more ideas." His tail twitched thinking about it, happily so. Maybe he would come across someone, someday, who had a lot more experience with young bodies than him, that could offer him advice. For now, he'd be careful with the young and the old.
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:41 am
Val nodded. She had not actually ever gotten injured by a gazelle but she had seen a few hunting accidents in this life time. "Well I normally have to use my strongest antiseptic because some young one decides to get to close and gets a hoof in the side." It was these injuries that Val would worried about the most since they did go bad on her then it was harder for her to heal it with just plants.
When Shalkan thanked her, Val just smiled shyly and nodded. She didn't really think her musings were all that useful but she figured he might have found them so. An exchange of ideas? Val thought. "Like a, " she paused trying to think of the right word, "school of sorts? Where those who wish to learn new ways of healing can go?" This idea struck a nerve deep in her being. Like some where or some time in her past lives she had been part of something like that.
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:40 am
His tail twitched. School? "Well, perhaps something like that," he mused, surprised that it seemed to have struck her a little more deeply than he had anticipated. Still, she seemed dedicated to her craft, even moreso than Shalkan was himself.
"A training place for those that want to learn, yeah, I guess a school." He was thinking out loud. "And a place where those that know something can come to swap ideas. That might be best. I know that if I was say, further north or south of where I live now, I probably wouldn't know the first thing of certain dangers normal in that area, or the plants."
Hmm, not a bad idea at all.
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:28 pm
Val's mind was already racing ahead, building a shadowy image of the 'school' that she wanted. A place, like Shalkan suggested, that would not only teach others how to heal but a place to share your knowledge of healing with others. Her face seemed to light up as she got yet another idea, "It could also be a place where useful crafting is done, like what can do with wood and stuff, for braces and such. Yes, that could really work. And it would be a great place to actually practice healing."
Only her thrashing tail showed her excitement over this idea. The shape of the school was slowly taking form in her mind. At least two different parts, one for crafting and another for healing. It would be open to anyone who was willing to come. But where would it be held? This question seemed to be simple, anywhere. But something in Val hesitated at the idea of the school being just anywhere, it had a particular place in mind but Val didn't know where that place was.
She came back from her thoughts when a particularly brave bug, ignoring the plant smell that always seemed to be part of her, buzzed around her head. Val blew the bug away then blushed slightly when she realized that she had completely forgotten the white lion. "Well I guess there is a lot that I could do with this idea. I guess I have to think on it." She smiled and added, "Thank you for the idea. If this idea ever actually blooms then I'll be sure to come and tell you."
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