'Cause I'm just a girl, little 'ol me / Don't let me out of your sight

[tess_thiess]

Day 352, Tuesday May 18th
Just before lunch
The ApothecaryThere's water on my cheek, which is strange. I wipe it off on my apron and go back to heating the tincture of belladonna. There's a few women as want it t'look nice fer their fellas, and it's got plenty 'a uses 'asides that. The fumes could be a problem, though, and so I keep an eye on

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[jaeresteade]

My hand kept me up most of the night. I knocked it against the taps while I was closing up and nearly bit my lip through with the pain. Not much to be done for it so late, though, so I stood the throbbing through the night, thinking about what could be done about it.

No way in hell I'm going to Lucien or all the way out to the Carnival or the Abbey, so I'm here, after just a couple hours sleep after dawn. Not really in the best of moods, what with my left hand feeling like it'll explode at any minute, but I've had coffee. I can at least speak nicely to people.

I've never been in here before, but I'm hoping that whoever's working knows how to use the herbs and not just how to sell them.

[jaeresteade]

Really don't feel like having a conversation with her about farming, so I don't put in that doctoring the animals was Jacob's skill, and that I never wanted to touch anything that was his