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Nayru nodded absent mindedly. Yes, knowledge of plants would help her pack, she was sure, but there were already so many who seemed to know plants better than she. Would Dahlia benefit from yet another wolf striving to fill the co-rank of apothecary? Or to cultivate plants for food? Or even to make things out of plants, although she couldn’t think of anyone off hand who did this. Nayru felt that with so many others who already were so many steps ahead it was best to look in another direction and her interest in plants was purely personal. The young female did wish to discover some niche that would profit Dahlia de Mai, but what that was she wasn’t sure. They had warriors, herbalist, crafters… and of course those who did not know what to do hunted or patrolled borders, neither of which interested Nayru greatly either. All in good time. The voice in her head seemed to come from nowhere and Nayru flicked an ear to rid herself of it.
You must stay very busy. Leader, mother, and a horticulturist? It was a full plate and Nayru envied the kind woman. Nayru still had no abilities or responsibilities that Dahlia de Mai demanded of her, and it was this that at times made her feel lost in her home. What do you do with your plants if not use them for medicine? Perhaps there was something with plants that she just hadn’t thought of yet. Another book she picked up, leafing through the pages and a smile spread across her face. There were small diagrams of plants and leaves and trees, though the text was small and hard for the girl to read. Over and over she read the title of the book, sounding out the letters slowly in her head before she hesitantly tried it out loud. En-cy-clo-pe-dia of Fl-ora. She held up her prize to Anu and grinned, content with the one and only book she had found.
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