And The Summer Blazes On

Ciná didn't exactly know what he was doing when it came to helping out these slaves that were getting over heated in their enclosures, but he had been tasked with figuring out a way to help them so that's what he was at least attempting to do. Short of just chaining them up and leading them out to the beach to cool off he wasn't sure what else to try so now he was turning to others that had a better idea of healing practices than he did to think of something that could at least boost their immune systems and make them a little sturdier if nothing else. Dead merchandise wasn't merchandise at all after all, was it? Really he just needed to keep them from dying or getting too sickly and they could just ride out the rest of this heat wave. Maybe that wasn't the best plan, but that's what he had so far.

Right now he was at the slave house, working on digging a trench of sorts to channel water down from a near by stream so that there would be an easier and more consistent source of water without having to carry buckets or rely on rain water collecting in buckets outside. He had slowly been working on this for a couple of days, but it was also too hot for him to work for too long without getting over heated himself. He had just stepped into the shade of the roof that hung over the slaves' pens when Strix walked up, reporting back after going to check with his mother on what they could use as far as herbs went. He had run into Chimera's sons a few times here and there and it was certainly a lot easier to ask one of them to help than to go track down one of the Queens and navigate through the whole niceties and whatnot that went into not offending or saying the wrong thing to someone so important to the King. He knew Chimera's children were just as important to him, but somehow he felt like he could speak a little more freely around his sons at least.

He stepped over to where Strix was while the smaller young man started explaining what he had been sent with. He barely retained what Strix was telling him about the various herbs and whatnot, but he at least picked out what they were supposed to do with them. Then Strix stalled out in his explanations, seemingly forgetting part of what he had been told. Ciná waited for a moment before finally just scooping up the berries so he could get started. "Why don't you uh... keep thinking about the other ones and I'll get started on this." He then went around to each of the pens where the slaves were held and dropped a portion of the berries into each of their enclosures where a dish of sorts was sitting on the other side of the gate where they would normally drop off a bit of food. "Eat up," he told them as he left their pen and for the most part they all complied except for one male who was notoriously stubborn. He frowned and doubled back to his pen when he was done, hitting the bars and pointing to the berries! "I'm trying to keep you alive here, eat the berries!" Once the slave finally—if a bit begrudgingly—started to eat the berries then Cina went out into the sun and got one of the buckets that was filled with rain water that had been sitting out in the heat for awhile. Surely that was plenty warm, right? He sat the bucket down next to the unrolled piece of leather that Strix was still examining and dropped the root thing into the bucket after breaking it up a bit so it could steep. Turning his golden gaze back to the boy he asked, "Did you figure out what else to do?"

WC: 666
Total: 1016 / 1500

"Cináed"