[PRP] A little herbology (Nightling/Little Rue)

[Kesmi]

This is an Rp between Nightling and Little Rue.

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Small does of things can be beneficial, while larger doses can be harmful or even fatal. How much is too much?

Remember that plant you found? Well it's unique. You see, it can both be medicinal in certain doses but also toxic For example, the lovely prizes are based on different variations of Foxglove--also known as Digitalis, which is used ins small doses as a medicine..

Please write 750 words per RPer telling me one of the following:

1. How do you figure out it helps but also kills?

 

[Kesmi]

It was summer once again. The sun was scorching as it blazed over head in the cloudless skies. Nightling, a dark colored unicorn who held very little magic in her body walked from the small pond with containers of water. She tipped them over to water the plants of her garden. The plants themselves while thriving in the heat, the spring varieties having wilted and been replaced. Nightling stopped as she looked over her work. The soil was dark as the plants soaked in the water she had brought to them. Looking towards the sun over head, she did wish for at least a couple clouds to roll over and cover it. Her own black coat making her retreat to the coolness of her cave home.

"Not the greatest of days to be out in the sun, huh Greta." Nightling said as she looked at the raven familiar, the bird's glowing green mate perched beside her. "I think I will head to the forest and hope it is cooler there. Keep an eye on the plant." With that Nightling slipped down the cool tunnel that lead from her home to the forest beneath.

Poking her head out of the ivy covered cliffside, she glanced around before emerging completely. The forest was indeed a little cooler, the dense branches over head blotting out the most of the sun's rays. Giving her heated coat a shake, Nightling headed for the brook that ran close by, unsure of whom she may meet...

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[Kesmi]

Stepping through the underbrush, Nightling looked towards the brook and the voice that had drifted from that direction. There was a light colored mare with brighter colored locks. Diverting her direction of movement, she headed closer to the mare. "A very hot summer day." Nightling added pleasantly.

"This heat is not doing my herb gardens any good. I swear the sun has an issue with them and wishes them to wither and wilt." Nightling commented as if it really weren't that big of a thing, really it wasn't as she could just grow more, but... Some she did need for reasons and waiting another season for them to grow would set her back greatly. Shaking the thoughts from her head she turned towards the mare. "Oh, my apologies, name's Nightling. The raven is Greta," Nightling said as a blue and colorfully spotted bird landed on a low branch near them. "Someone, I thought I had told to watch the garden, but seems she is always watching my back. Her mate must be doing the watching.'

Greta turned her head towards the two to stare with a single eye. Opening her beak she merely cawed at them as she ruffling her own feathers. While she was quite capable of normal speech, Greta just preferred to speak in her own language. Nightling could only shake her head at the bird, dappled lighting flickering off her white horn.

"Mind if I ask what had brought you to the forest today? Besides the heat from the sun?" Nightling inquired tilting her head to one side.

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[Kesmi]

Nightling tilted her head, someone that interacted with the two legged species of the lands? Being the one for solitude, besides the two birds that lived with her in the caves that were home. Nightling didn't interact much with other species. She was about to say something before the small rodent appeared. Turning her gaze downwards she watched it as it tried to move, but wasn't being too successful. Frowning she stepped forwards and lowered her head down to almost level with the the mouse.

"Very odd behavior." Nightling agreed as she pulled back and glanced at Rue. "Doesn't seem injured from the looks. What might you think it has gotten into?" While she was well versed in herbs there were some that escaped her. She wasn't sure if it was something it had eaten or maybe if it were an injury was it more internal? Her frown seemed to deepen as she glanced back down at the mouse, silently wishing she had a more innate magical ability to help cure the mouse, but her magic was muddled by her mixed heritage.

"Perhaps we could take it to your friend to see what they may think? Nightling pondered as Greta dropped into a glide down towards the mouse. She pecked at it a little, not hard. She was likely trying to figure out what was happening in her own way.

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[Kesmi]

Nightling looked towards Greta as she leaned closer to the mouse before hopping back with an alarmed caw. The sight of the half eaten berry had surprised the raven. She hadn't thought that the mouse still had something in its mouth. "That... That..." Greta cawed as she took to the air and land upon Nightling's back.

Nightling herself watched her familiar before stepping forward to get a closer look at the berry. She sniffed before stepping back. "I've seen these before. A very dark plant." Nightling mentioned as she craned her neck a bit to try and riffle through the pouch that hung about her neck, but this action was a bit difficult. Stopping she looked at the raven. "Greta, can you get the small fern pouch from the pack?"

Greta hopped up to Nightling's shoulder as she flipped the pack's flap open and poke around before she pulled out a tightly bound pouch made of fern leaves. Taking the pouch she pulled the easy release ties and let it open, inside were a few small pieces of charcoal. "A little bit of this should help with any effects of that berry, or at least slow the absorption into the body."

Greta picked up one of the pieces of charcoal, a small piece and drifted back down to the mouse. She pecked at it to crumble the piece into small almost dust like material before coating the edge of her beak and sticking it into the mouse's mouth. She meant to try and force the mouse to take it. Nightling looked at Rue, there was worry on her face, but recognition to what was happening.

"The mouse seems to have found a belladonna plant. Helpful as it is, it can also be very harmful in large amounts." She explained as she started looking around for the distinctive plant.

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[Kesmi]

"I don't know how much it might have eaten, but certainly enough to cause problems." Nightling said as she watched Greta as the bird still fed the mouse charcoal before picking up what was left in the pouch and fly back to Nightling's back. "With the looks of the half eaten berry, it was going somewhere with that berry."

Looking around at the foliage around there. It was well possible that the plant was close by, but then again it was possible that it wasn't close by. Looking back to the mouse, she frowned a little. The mouse surely hadn't traveled that far, not with as sickly as it was acting and the half eaten berry it had been carrying. "We should take a look around to see if the plant is here. Because this mouse didn't travel too far in this condition."

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[Kesmi]

Nightling had already started back towards the trees, looking for the distinctively colored blossoms and dark berries. With the mention of the sweet, but musky smell, that would help find the plant faster. Nightling looked back to Greta who had stuffed the fern pouch back into Nightling's pack. "Fly a head and see if you can't spot anything."

With a caw, Greta took wing and flew over the tops of the undergrowth. Making sweeping motions to try and find something. Nightling looked back towards the mouse, frowning. "I wish I could do more to help the mouse. Even being what I am I don't have the powers of a true unicorn." Her heritage was a muddled one with the unicorn bloodline only coming from part of her father's side of the family. "But we should indeed find the plant to make sure no one else falls victim to it's lure." Nightling agreed as she continued, sniffing at the air while also listening to hear if Greta finds something.

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[Kesmi]

Nightling turned her head towards where Rue had mentioned something moving. Her ears flicking slightly as she eased forward towards the sounds, but she too was hit by the smell of the plant they were seeking. Up a head the brush and ferns were indeed moving, but soon she could hear the cawing of Greta. Dark blue feathers peeked out of the brush before she appeared above, squawking at something, her wings beating in a way to throw air at whatever was on the ground. The chatter of another form of rodent could also be heard between Greta's caws.

"I think Greta found the plant too and something was also there." Nightling said as she pushed forward toward the location of said plant and looked downwards. Greta landed on a branch over head as she glared down upon the squirrel that was chattering and shaking its paws at the raven. "Stop that, you best be leaving that plant alone. Now shoo." Nightling said to the squirrel waving a hoof at it. "Also drop whatever berries you might have taken from this area. They aren't good for your health."

Pulling some of the plants away with her tail, Nightling revealed the short thick cluster of plants that bore a dark purple blossom and even darker berries that hung heavy on the stems. It seemed that the berries were in season and this didn't bode well for the creatures in the area. "Over here Rue, I have found a cluster, but there may be more here."

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