it's all for you

Today hadn't been so bad. For a while, at least. With the rise of the sun, Iolaire was out working in the garden. It was spring after all and the plants wouldn't stop growing just because she'd purposefully made herself ill. Io had been weeding the top tier of the garden when the nausea and dizziness struck. Perhaps she'd been out in the sun for too long. So inside she went.

When Roan arrived from wherever he'd been and called out her name, Io was curled up in bed. It felt like she spent a lot of time there these days. She hadn't been asleep, but she felt as if she needed to be in bed, so that's where she was. "In here," she called out softly. "Dizzy again."

Some of the remedies for infertility were poisons. Poison in micro-doses weren't always deadly. That was why her stomach was so upset all the time and why she felt weak as a blade of grass. It was difficult to keep food down, even with the mint that she'd been chewing to ease her stomach.