Gale blindly followed behind her, stepping over the fence with ease and the poise of an agile fighter. He felt naked without his spear and he had left the cloak at his lodgings for Yvette, though he did not know where his niece was. Hopefully the woman would treat the innocent girl right, for he had no wish to kill heedlessly.
All around his toes he noticed the plant life flourishing despite the lower average temperature. Gale himself was far more used to warmer climates with steaming summers. Winters here would be far more bitter and ragged than he was used to but he was sure things would be fine. Nothing was quite like Rome though, and he found the comparisons between the two lacking; everything was so much more different here. But the slavery, it seemed, was nothing different. It was just the same, though the ring in his nose was of higher quality than his previous one.
Draugr held up a leaf for him, and the man refocused on it as he slipped from his reverie. Nodding simply, he took the leaf from her hand and sniffed it, wrinkling his nose. It was new to him, but he understood her words fair enough. The English name for some of the things were going to escape him, but he was sure they would understand each other. He dropped the leaf, then gazed at the garden around him for familiar shapes and colors. He gestured with a heavy hand at the thyme, "Thyme, good for coughs and lungs." His sister had known a good deal of medicinal herb lore and he had picked up a great deal of it. "Chives for cleansing, sage cleansing, mint for stomach ache and bad breathe," he rambled off, wondering if they had any others.
Yet he shook his head, waving his arms around. "But no fennel for bowels, marigold for swelling, lemon for toxins, basil for fevers, or rosemary for fevers and memory." Half of them could definitely work here, but the rest would die in the cold. "Half easy to get, rest better traded for."
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