This is Harder than it Looks [G]

GATHERING: Herb (Level 3, Juniper)
Round 1
(Tealah needs to read the rules before she does stuff, yo)

The discovery of how pleasant it was to always smell of a particular herb had intrigued Chridhe and gotten her to thinking. There was rarely bad without some hint of good, after all, so it wasn't surprising that something good had come of her inconvenient, unpleasant heat cycle. She'd been just rolling in jasmine plants to get the odor on her, but she'd decided there had to be a better way of doing it. After all, it would only work if you could find fresh plants, because dried plants were a lot harder to get the smell to stay on you. Hmm, maybe if you put it in some sort of a carrier liquid though...

She'd decided to take the time today to test her theory, since she really didn't have anywhere she needed to be in particular, and had spent some time considering what fragrant herb to try it out on. She'd come too far north for jasmine plants, and lavender wasn't blooming yet so the fragrant flowers wouldn't be available. Hmm. Well, juniper smelled great and it didn't need to bloom to be of use.

So, where to go looking for juniper? There were plenty of species of the woody plant, so she could probably find some just about anywhere, but it should be someplace nearby water so she could crush the fresh needles into some sort of container full of liquid to soak. But then she would need a container too... well, a rock would work just fine as a hard surface to crush it on, and if she made sure it had a big enough dip in it she could leave water in it to soak too.

Greatly cheered by her problem solving, she set off for the plain she had been seeing in the distance for some time. There was a river there - she could smell the water, but it was also big enough for her to see the shine of sunlight on water, so easy enough to find. Now she just needed to find a juniper shrub...