A dose should hold me for an hour or two even in this state, I promise.
[He chuckles, wearily. The front door of his temple isn't too far; it's set conveniently right up against the street, with the temple wall stretching away to either side to surround the back garden instead, and as long as he keeps looking at the road the light isn't too bad. It's fine, it really is. He'll manage just a bit further.
And if she insists, he doesn't mind the blow to his pride too badly, he thinks, and pulls away just enough to push open the unlocked door.]
The second door on the left.
[Behind that one is a large workroom, full of jars and vials of carefully-labeled dried herbs and stranger ingredients. There's a stool by the counter, and several little jars and boxes there labeled in different handwriting. One reads, For fever.]
no subject
[He chuckles, wearily. The front door of his temple isn't too far; it's set conveniently right up against the street, with the temple wall stretching away to either side to surround the back garden instead, and as long as he keeps looking at the road the light isn't too bad. It's fine, it really is. He'll manage just a bit further.
And if she insists, he doesn't mind the blow to his pride too badly, he thinks, and pulls away just enough to push open the unlocked door.]
The second door on the left.
[Behind that one is a large workroom, full of jars and vials of carefully-labeled dried herbs and stranger ingredients. There's a stool by the counter, and several little jars and boxes there labeled in different handwriting. One reads, For fever.]