Maybe no one told you...

The light that sparked in the three year old's eyes was one of untold joy and instant regard for the female who called herself Faite. A peel of excited giggles exited the warm female as she ran through the grass to urge her newest friend forward. "You have to be close to identify them in winter, otherwise you will never see the differences in the leaves, and sometimes...that can be life saving time. It is never good to be late when a wolf hangs in the balance. Stardust is my name, you may call me Star." With a curt nod, the sunny female trots over the rock encrusted ground of the moor. Her jade gaze is set upon a cluster of large, leafy fronds who held dried seed pods on their tops. the pods would have once held little groups of small white flowers, these were called meadow-sweet. Her mother had given some to her as a pup when she had gotten very ill with something called the flu.

Star looks over at the black-masked woman, smiling as she spoke again. "Can you see the way these leaves look powdery, and the veins in the leaf is very prominent? Smell the stalk, it has a sweet scent to it that lets you know it is okay to pick it and it is not too far out of season. This is meadow-sweet, also called Queen of the Meadow. The stems of this plant are really pretty in their purple color. It's good for bad stomachs and flu ailments." Realizing she may have been talking too much, Star gathers up the leaves to dry later if she could find somewhere to store them. Looking around the death garden, Star gives a squeal as she moves behind a rather large stone to find more herbs.

"This one is called Valerian Root, you can tell what it is by the faintly perfume like scent, it is best to only harvest the root of this plant. This one is good to ease all manners of problems. It is good to treat anxiety, insomnia and all sorts of mental illnesses. Usually there is a white flower on the tops here and the leaves are usually bright green all year." Moving under a bush to come back to the deer carcass, Star looked over the heather groups, noting the large sprawls of grayish green leaves. It grew in clusters all over the territory wildly and without respect to other species. "This is heather, it usually has light pink or purple flowers with grayish green leaves that look like hair. Any part of this plant can be used, but since the leaves are all that are here they will do. This seems to grow rather abundantly around here. It is good for cramps of nearly all kinds, intestinal discomforts and can be used to regulate a constipated wolf. It is one of my favorite plants." Star looks at Faite with a smile buried behind a mouthful of plant matter. Setting her find down, she looks around again so she can memorize this place. The deer would soon be skeleton, but it was laying beside two rounded boulders and there were flowering plants nearly everywhere. Small shrubs and bushes dotted the area and she made note of their patterns. There was the occasional copse of trees, but mostly it was hills and heather.