The Love of Her Life (Highlander Heroes Book 6) by Rebecca Ruger

Author:Rebecca Ruger [Ruger, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Rebecca Ruger
Published: 2020-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

If not for Eleanor, Katie might well have done just as the woman had feared, smothered Henry with her worry, keeping him close, refusing to allow him out of her sight. He was only permitted any freedom from his mother because Henry wanted nothing more than to be with Eleanor, and strangely enough, Eleanor didn’t seem to mind.

Left then with some time to herself, no patients to see, no one come to her door for an urgent need, her laundry finally attended this morning with her son’s help before he disappeared with Eleanor, Katie was determined to spend a good amount of time about the nearby woods. She needed desperately to replenish her supply of roots and plants, simply not having the time of late to restock.

She gathered her shallow basket and her cloak and headed up toward the castle, turning off into the trees before she might have reached the bridge. Soon, she would likely have to tread further, but was not yet very familiar with the land and area that she felt confident enough to stray too far from Swordmair.

She was about her chore for almost an hour, keeping either the village or the castle in view through the trees at any given time. Her basket was quite full, happily so. At one point, she was able to sit right down next to a rotted stump, crossing her legs, collecting a goodly number of mushrooms and lichen in just that one area.

When she was done, she stopped at her cottage but just to relieve herself of the basket, and claim the only other one she possessed. She went in search of Maddie, who was usually easy to find as she was often about some chore inside the keep.

“You’ve recovered well enough, my dear?” The mistress asked, as she had every day since Henry had been lost and then found.

“Aye, thank you.” She stood across the counter in the kitchen from Maddie, while the older woman was busy trimming peas. “Maddie, I am in need of sea kelp.”

“Sea-what?”

“Sea kelp. Are you familiar with it? The green algae that grows and lives in the sea, or its relatives that possibly grow in some of the larger lochs?” At the woman’s blank look, Katie expounded, “It’s rather like a slimy green plant.” Still nothing. “At any rate, I’m not sure where the sea is from Swordmair, and I wondered if I might have your permission to have the castle steward procure some sea kelp for me. At Dalserf, the steward had seaweed sent over from Arran Isle, simply for my practice. It has many medicinal qualities.” It had taken some doing, Gordon Killen having to send out many inquiries before a positive response had come, and subsequently, the sought after seaweed.

“Aye, Edric might do that for you, lass,” Maddie offered encouragingly, but then said in an offhanded manner, “Of course, you could walk to Loch Oykill in less than an hour. Always something slimy there.”

“Loch Oykill? Is it very large,

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