The Priestess Of Rodona

^Few days later in a caravan.^

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

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

"Yes, we will have to find out our luck here. We lost our homes because of the beast tide, so we packed up and move. We were fortunate to run into 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 you aside from letting you ride for free." 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 that his hunters brought with the various herbs gathered around the camp.

"Now, look carefully, I will do this slowly so that you can also learn how to harvest everything carefully without spoiling anything," Jaana said to Elvire, who was watching how 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. However, 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 it could be uses.

"This is the stomach if you get it 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 to the bones. You can temporarily make them as weapons like arrowheads or blunt weapons.

There are also buyers for 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.  Especially from the neck area." Jaana explained and looked at Elvire that was still excited and listening.

"For the hide, they are worth quite a lot as well because they have many uses. It can be used from clothes to ornaments, especially for predators and rare animals. So if it's possible, you should try to kill your prey very quickly.

That means you either aim 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.

I think if you ask nicely from your father, he might bring you on hunting at some point, but not now as he is still getting used to his new leg, and these last few days haven't been easy on him. 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. The easiest is, of course,  slice the venison in smaller pieces and roast it on fire. However, some parts aren't suitable for that and need boiling so they won't become 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. Then, you put the meat and different kinds of herbs in the soup.

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 as she started to cut the venison in smaller pieces and put them in the boiling 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. Despite working hard,  some herbs had bizarre names, and that started to slowly mess up her head as she got stuck on those herbs.

"Now, we are done. 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 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 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.