The Priestess of Rodona 74 Chapter 74

"So mister Edwin, what is your family's plan in Aellan, just simply trying your luck out there?"

A middle-aged man that was considerably overweighted and dressed up in luxurious clothes.

"Yes, we have fun out of our luck here, and we lost our homes in the beast tide, so we planned to pack up and move, and we were fortunate to run out for you," Levin said, who went now with the name of Edwin.

"No, it's not every day we get people that are skilled in camping, booking, accounting, and what else you and your family haven't revealed to me yet.

So I happily hire talented people that will help our caravan, and if you do your work well enough, I might even pay to you and let you ride freely." The caravan leader said while looking at the place that was now their kitchen and smelled the scent of food.

He saw how Elvire and Jaana were busying themselves in the kitchen and preparing the venison he's hunters had brought with the various herbs gathered around of the camp.

"Now look carefully, I will do this slowly that you can also learn how to harvest everything carefully without spoiling anything," Jaana said to Elvire, who was watching her to skin the elk that was on the table.

Elvire watched the whole process of butchering the animal and saw how skillfully Jaana did it, but she still couldn't understand the quality of the work completed.

"Now, I will tell you about all of the different body parts and how you can use them in different ways," Jaana said and started one by one to say what the body part was and how you could use it.

"This is the stomach if you get it in intact, you can dry it and use it as a water bag for a few days, but you have to be careful with the process and exactly know what you are doing.

I will show the exact process to you later on, but let's move on the bones you can temporarily make them as weapons like arrowheads or blunt weapons.

There are also buyers to them as some people use them to make jewelry like necklaces and rings.

They also use them as ornaments, so you should at least collect the antlers and vertebras that especially the neck has." Jaana explained and looked at Elvire that was still excited and listening.

"For the hide, they are worth quite a lot also because they have many uses still from clothes to ornaments, especially for predators and rare animals, so if it's possible, you should try to kill your prey as quickly as possible.

That means you either aim them at the head or the heart as injured animals can also be dangerous and will act unexpectedly, so you never know what you are going to face off.

I think if you ask nicely from your father he might take you hunting at some point but not now as he is still getting used to his new leg and these last days haven't been easy on him, but at least he can ride most of the time in the carriage." Jaana said and looked at how happy Elvire became when she mentioned that Levin might teach her how to hunt.

"Next is the cooking, easiest is if course slice the venison in smaller pieces and roast it on a fire but some parts aren't suitable for that and needs boiling that they aren't going to be chewy.

So for me, the soup is one of the best things you can do when camping if you have the time to prepare it, you just need a water source or able to cast water magic and then you put the meat and different kinds of herbs in the soup.

Maybe even vegetables if you have some and then you let it boil for one hour, and it will be delicious I promise that.

Now listen carefully I will explain every herb, and it's properties to you when I do add them try to memorize them." Jaana said while starting to cut the venison in smaller pieces and put them in the water.

When she was done with that, she started to add the herbs, and Elvire looked at them and tried to memorize as much as she could, but some had bizarre names for her, and that started to slowly mess up her head as she got stuck on those herbs.

"Now we are done and look at this we have a soup enough to feed the whole caravan you are free to go now but don't get too far away and get lost," Jaana said while smiling towards her daughter that was adapting quite a well to the situation and looked happy.

The old healer had been kind enough to teach them how to dye their heads using herbs, and he also had a recipe for a medicine that helped them to change the color of their eyes so that Elvire's striking features wouldn't get noticed that easily.

So now Elvire again had brown hair with green eyes and only looked like she hasn't gone outside much because of her pale skin.

Chapter end