Frost Lingers
winter seasonal prompt
| Paladin 'Knight' Ancora |
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The young woman seemed to have a shy stammer, but Paladin, astute as ever, noted that as she gained confidence in the last moment, that stammer faded. He grinned faintly as both sets of eyes shifted to him and he turned to the frozen stream, nodding. “Very well, let’s get started, shall we.”
He dragged a pawful of snow toward himself, rolling it with practiced ease from all the time he’d spent with the mortar and pestle stones as he began, “To begin with, cold can be used to bring down a high fever, whether applied on the face and nose, internally, or to the rectum in desperate situations.”
He rolled the ball of snow to Legacy as he added, “Swollen, infected wounds can have snow applied and held to them to bring down the swelling as well.”
Word Count: 141 | Total: 1682/1500
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