Fast learner

She caught Actaea as she was leaving her den, the girl walking from the entrance with an innocence to her step. Shaye raised a brow at her, wondering what she had been getting up to. In her experience, when the young tried a little too hard to look innocent, there was always something.

She wasn’t accusatory, offering the girl a welcome smile as she approached. “Hello Actaea, I was thinking we could do a healing lesson today.” there was amusement in Shaye’s eyes, like little dancing lights. She was going to play a gentle trick on the girl, the very same one her Aunt Rhyme had once played on her.

She had learnt she was pregnant, and was still coming to terms with this fact. Her belly had grown, and was a nice little bump. Shaye stood at an angle that mostly concealed this. “Do you know much about healing? Because here’s a quick lesson for you. Scent if very important as a healer, for numerous reasons. The change in a scent can tell us a lot, like if a wound is turning septic, if a patient is bleeding, and so on. What can you tell from my scent that has changed?”