HAZE ☀ herb training

[jacob w.c.]

WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS TO LOVE — Jacob had been interested in herbs ever since he was a child. Yet he hadn't always been interested in them. There was a time he could remember when he had no desire to be a doctor or to learn how to help people. It hadn't been until he met his Ma that the interest had come up in him. He'd been a quick learned and she was always handling them and he was always asking questions. Then his Pa had gotten sick and he started to veiw medicine as some sort of magic cure that would somehow save him. He went through every single book he could, asked every question he could think of, tried every possible solution there could've been. Every time though he only ended up treating the symptoms, not the cancer that was ravaging the stallion's body. In the end, there was nothing he could've done. He knew that now. Still, he didn't regret all the research and reading. He didn't regret the way his Pa died. He'd felt so guilty about it. Sometimes he still did. But it was better to be poisoned than to burn alive. There'd only been a few minutes to think of a solution- no; not minutes, seconds. There'd only been seconds to think of a solution and Jacob couldn't move the body of a great horse anywhere by himself, let alone in a burning building, and Harrison had been far too sick to move himself. But he still had the berries from what they'd talked about days before that point. He'd sobbed while it happened. He'd sobbed afterwards. But in the end he knew it was for the best. Didn't he? Archie didn't seem to think so, based on how he'd threatened to tell Pincher everything about that whole night. He didn't think that would change what Pincher thought of him but there was a part of him that didn't want to tell the captain about any of that, not ever. Not out of shame, but because this was supposed to be a new start. New starts didn't mix with toxic endings.

When he heard Izuku calling for an herb training session, the man made his way over with a light smile. He was always happy to see anyone interested in herbs and he was always happy to hear anything he hadn't before, or anything that could simply be a reminder to him. He gave his apprentice a light nod before setting down, choosing not to answer any of the questions for now. Izuku was doing a fine job and he was interested in seeing what his clanmates thought of it all. Perhaps he would look for another Tenderfoot soon. He'd like to have a bigger team but at the same time he knew he didn't have the time to train both Izuku and someone else who didn't know anything about herbs yet. At least Izuku had come to him with some basic knowledge, that was more than he had when Lottie began training him. In any case, it was always good for everyone to have a little bit of basic training in case anything ever went wrong so this was a nice event, no matter what it's purpose or what it may lead to. So far, Izuku seemed to be doing well and everyone else that'd arrived seemed attentive, which was all that mattered. —A GREAT HONOR TO HOLD YOU UP

"SPEECH"

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