I'll carry you on my shoulders, never set you down.
Ferry you through the coldness, never let you down.

What were the chances of her accidentally poisoning someone? Pretty high. She would have to make sure these herbs went under the expert eye of Tilney or Sacre (she did not know the third doctor's name) before they were added to the herd's herb pile. It was one of her many number of duties was to collect herbs from all over Helovia. At first she hadn't gotten the point, The World's Edge had herb gardens didn't they? She was sure that Tilney had mentioned one during the first healers meeting that she'd attended. Why did she have to travel to collect herbs from the most inconvenient places? Then she had thought perhaps wild herbs were better, more natural. Then she realised that they might not be able to replicate all the temperatures and different environments in their greenhouses. Meaning it was her task to collect the herbs that could help save lives, the herbs they could not grow in their greenhouses. Ráeru had made her peace with this. Wanting to contribute as much to the herd as possible she set about to collect said useful herbs. Additionally she wanted to prove herself as a useful healer, willing to learn and having (at least some) natural talent. Yet proving her so called natural talent was proving difficult. In fact she'd only managed to offer advice to one other, the filly Bathsheba with the sickle-hock. No one else had been in need of her services. Ráeru had wished she had the capability of healing the filly of her affliction completely but unfortunately she did not have any such abilities.

Huffing she stared at her bundled good and then scoffed at her own stupidity. Of course. Here she was, deep in the forest and had absolutely no way to transport the herbs back to The World's Edge. Instead she stood in front of the collected herbs looking like a complete fool. There was no way she'd be able to carry all of these in her mouth. Maybe if she tied them with her rope and made some sort of sling? It might work, though she'd have to be careful to bind the stems and not crush the herbs. Allowing her rope to spill from her shoulders she set to work binding the herbs together and then tying the rope so she'd be able to wear them in a sling.

Wearing her herbs and feeling reasonably better, Ráeru peered further into the forest. She'd be able to cram a few more herbs into the bundle. Adding needing a satchel to her list of items she'd like to collect, Ráeru began to move further into the forest on the hunt for more herbs.