[Open] All the Leaves are Brown

[sunshinesally]

Who: Sally Boyle and you!
What: Arrival, opening up shop, a few odds and ends.
When: From now until it is no longer useful!
Where: Jack's Marina and around town.
Warning(s): Illicit substances, references to the death of a child, possibly more. Will update as needed!




-I've Been for a Walk-

To Yorick's credit, he did his best to lead Sally through the motions of getting settled in Pumpkin Hollow. He was kind and patient and a silly old thing. And yes, the town is cursed, room at the inn, work options, food vouchers, blah blah, that's all well and good but the whole time Sally had only one thing on her mind.

Where is Gwen?

The very minute that Yorick and Mayor Poe turn her loose again, she forgoes the tavern entirely and makes a beeline straight for the beach. Huddled in the sand, she sits and watches the docks with her rail-thin legs hugged tightly to her chest, hoping to see the ferryman return with her infant daughter.

Part of her hopes he doesn't. Because that would mean...

But if she isn't here, then what happened to her? If Sally didn't survive the crash, where does that leave Gwen? At least if she was here, they wouldn't have to be apart. Sally could find a way back... for both of them. Or maybe make a new life for the pair of them here. But what if little Gwen didn't get that chance?

It will be a while before the ferryman returns, but he will bring Guinevere Boyle with him. However, Sally doesn't know that. So she will wait here on the beach even as night falls.


-He Knows I'm Gonna Stay-

It takes a few days, but once Gwen arrives and Sally signs up for work as a physician, the pair are finally settled in. (Sally makes it clear to Mayor Poe that her expertise is in pharmaceuticals and she is, first and foremost, a chemist, but that she's got a lot of experience with first aid as well.) It's a small place, but it's theirs. A small drugstore and simple clinic with a small apartment on the upper floor. It has a study, but Sally converts it to a nursery.

Thus, the Blackberry Apothecary is born.

Basic clinic services and injury treatment is available here, along with all manner of helpful medicines made from local herbs.

And maybe some more interesting things if you ask the right questions. She does, after all, remember the recipe for Joy.


-California Dreamin'-

With Gwen strapped to her chest and a bag slung over her back, Sally ventures out into the woodlands to collect necessary herbs and flowers for her apothecary before the chill kills them off. Sage and rosemary, ginseng and yarrow, foxglove and poppy. If anyone approaches her while she's out foraging, she'll spit out a customary Wellington Wells greeting like a reflex.

"Lovely day for it!"


-Wildcard-
Always open to ideas!

Comments

[sunshinesally]

"...Have you tried seeing if the, ehh, wizards around here can... magic you back into shape?"

[restingslasherface]

"Even if I knew who to ask that's a bit of a leap! I don't have magic at home."

The irony.

[sunshinesally]

"Can't hurt to ask around." Sally shrugs. "Better than dying horribly, eh? I'll keep an ear to the ground. Let me get you something for that insomnia, and some insulin for the blood sugar."

She heads back out to the drug counter.

[restingslasherface]

Jean follows, that last idea seemingly getting their interest. "There's insulin here? I'd assumed - wow, I might be a jerk actually. When I learned about the lack of organ transplants I kinda just assumed people who needed insulin had to keel over and die too..."

Where Jean worked: the Floor of Language

Where Jean did not work: the Floor of Technological Sciences

[sunshinesally]

"Well, even if no one else here knows how to make it, I do. Although getting the right lab equipment has been tricky. If you know any good engineers, I'd love to meet them," she says, picking products off her shelf and placing them on the counter. "Anything else for you today, then?"

[restingslasherface]

"Not that I can - I lied!" Jean vibrates. "Supplies for first aid and triage? I don't necessarily need it right now, but knowing if you sell it at all will be helpful and Comrade Chris may be by for some as well!"

[sunshinesally]

"Sure, antiseptic, bandages, antibiotic ointment, pain relief, all your basics." She counts them off on her fingers. "Wait, lied about what?"

[restingslasherface]

"It's a colloquialism! I had started to say that there was nothing else but I was not correct! My apologies for the confusion!" Look at them Sally, they're vibrating. "I'll direct Comrade Chris your way, thank you very much!"

[sunshinesally]

"...You gonna be alright, there?"

[restingslasherface]

"I'm just like this!"