poisonous experimentation

There was a pause while Acacius concentrated on finishing up the jar that would hold his tincture, and Corbie found herself surprisingly invested in it as they watched to see if it was going to leak. She found herself holding her breath as he tilted it around and onto it's top, and expelled a sigh of relief at the same time as the boy, which prompted a laugh from her. "Oh, there is a strip of sand, dunes and such, where the water transitions to the land, but those are right on the water. Once you get a little away from the high tide mark you start getting grassland, and then there's a big dip in the land that leads down into a kind of valley, which is where I live, and up north a bit is another grassland too, and some tar pits, though the area south is sand and rock and probably not terribly interesting. What is your home like? With a lake, I bet it's pretty there."