Town Hall Kitchen: Friday Evening

[vkandis_son]

Karal was not thinking. About anything. Not about what they'd found out in the library, not about what they'd found out on the boat. Not about what would happen if this didn't work.

His mind was filled with formless hope while he went through the automatic motions of boiling water and setting out the teapot. They would be bringing plants back

Comments

[willbedone]

"It'll work," Willow said as she kept her eye out for the folks returning from the preserve. "I know a very special guy who is convinced that tea fixes everything. Actually I know two but only one gets smooching priveledges."

[vkandis_son]

"I don't know what those are," Karal said absently as he waited for the kettle to boil. He was very still and very calm and he wasn't going to let go of it for anything. "But he sounds very wise."

[willbedone]

"He is," Willow agreed. "I'm rather fond of him."

[vkandis_son]

"I'll give you some Karsite tea when this is over and you can send it to him," he offered. "It's very different from the tea they have here."

[im_fullmetal]

Ed made his way back to the kitchens as soon as he realised Karal had come back. "Any luck?"

[vkandis_son]

"They have not returned with the plants yet." He glanced up briefly, then went back to watching the kettle. "The boat has nothing to do with the cure."

[im_fullmetal]

He nodded, wanting to ask about the boat but taking Karal's decision. "I told Constable Fraser about our possibility. He said we'd find test subjects when we were ready."

[vkandis_son]

"That's good. Brewing the leaves together into a tea makes sense, but that doesn't mean it is right. If it doesn't help, we'll try the roots, next."

[neurotic_witch]

Chris and company appeared in the kitchen in a swirl of bright white lights.

Unfortunately, the strain of orbing that many people twice finally did Chris in and he stumbled for a minute, dropping his armful of herbs onto a nearby counter before collapsing on to the floor.

[the_merriest]

"Chris!" Rikku dropped to her knees, reaching for his shoulder and wishing her own head wasn't swimming. "Someone! Help!"

[tatooine_doofus]

Luke dropped his own pile of herbs and knelt down. "Got it," he said with what he hoped was a reassuring smile. He closed his eyes and concentrated, lifting Chris off the floor using the Force.

"See you in a few minutes," he said, heading for the clinic.

[vkandis_son]

Karal pounced on the plants that Chris had dropped on the counter, pulling them over to the sink. "You got a large number," he said, already sorting through them, setting them into two piles. "That's good, that's wonderful, in fact."