Who: Jang-Geum and Starbuck
When: Monday evening, March 17th, 2008
Where: The Infirmary
What: Starbuck gets to meet his new mentor-type-person
This grass could not cook down quick enough, Jang-Geum had reasoned. Unfortunately, that was not something she could fix at this moment. She had no choice in the matter. After a quick visit to the headmistress's office, only to meet Adora and to kindly remind her that an appointment had to be made, she requested and was granted permission for a proper wood stove. It would be the only way for her to properly develop the medicines she had been making for the last five hundred years.
But, today, she had to make due with a poor excuse for an electric burner. And her mind was, unfortunately, not on the medicine at all. It was churning with doubts and concerns for Adora. That woman was so stubborn. Jang-Geum had expressed reservations from the beginning, but to think that she had been here for an entire month without any medicine or actual heatlhcare from a supernatural physician... Jang-Geum had great fears. Great, great fears for this child.
As Jang-Geum continued to work on the slow cooking of the natural grass she had found in a more wild part of the grounds, having dripped some liquid sulfur puree into it to work on her medicine, she did not realize she had been singing softly all this time, the words of her childhood slipping off her lips. "
Onara, onara... aju ona... gadara gadara, aju ona..."