Rites of Ascension to Adulthood – Day 7

Day 7 – Water! Why’d it Have to be Water?

7th of Nymm, 989 YK

Next morning, I head out. Sure enough, the stream was about an hour away. Okay. Now for the really hard part. There are these algae that grow in slow-moving waters. The big problem is that it grows in deeper sections. That means I’ve got to swim out to the middle and dive. Did I mention I hate water? I do. Mom does too and we’ve perfected our sponge baths because of it. Ugh! Couldn’t I just do the eye poison again? Well, suffice it to say I go get the stuff and then found a spot that got full sun and laid out to dry myself off. The other items on my list were some plants that grew on the riverside, and some mud from the roots of a tree in the area. I found a decent stone and a small indentation in the rock where I dried myself off and used them as a mortar and pestle to grind and mix my ingredients. I laid out the paper with my list and rubbed the concoction all over it. Lo and behold another message began to appear.