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She scrapped the bark free with her knife and they continued onward, stopping along the way for yarrow for abrasions and clotting inducement should an injury occur as well as leent

“Oh, there’s a real beauty,” she exclaimed as she stalked forward He watched while she knelt and extracted the blue Echinacea flowers “The first sign of the sniffles, you take this and it’ll lessen the virus greatly My Grand the flu season”

“Your grandmother was a jewel”

“More like a flower Her name was Rose”

Every ti personal he felt himself soften toward her It was the most ti for or sleeping with Don’t ask her

“Is that how you got your name?”

“Yes, actually Purple was her favorite color, and I was the first girl to be born to the fae deal”

“I can iine My cousin, Charlotte, is the sa up I think we chased her to Nashville where we couldn’t keep an eye on her,” he admitted sheepishly

She chuckled “Oh, I know that feeling well, but I could never leave here for too long This place has h to teach me that”

“I felt the same way about the military I’ve seen more countries that I can count, been in and out of ot out was come back home”

“Are you happy you did?” she asked softly

“Yeah I can’t i anywhere else I set my own hours and spend my days out in the place I love most Not many people can say that”

“Very true It’s how I feel about journalism I tried to explain it to my daddy, but he’s very much a numbers man If he can’t see a foreseeable solid future, he’s not too keen on it He wantedfolks would always need It was Gran who convinced o for my dreams She was the matriarch after Papa passed away If she had your back on an issue, there was little you couldn’t get aith”

He grinned “I take it your old man is a traditionalist?”

“Very much so Like most men around these parts”