Chapter 8

I have been studying medicine and found that I like researching better. We had decided not to build a kind of boat to sail out to get to the west shore after discussing it as the small raft would not be a safe option. This was because Ashby had changed her mind about coming with me and Pogo to find my sister. Pogo gave his reasons a he told me that one of the alchemy villagers had discovered a potion that could that could transport a villager across the other side of the village and he thought if they made a stronger potion to transport a villager to the other side of the island. I liked the idea and asked him what the ingredients were. But he could not remember as the children had collected the herbs round the island. So I decided to experiment with the herbs.

I went round the island looking for likely herbs and did several experiments and I did found some surprising results. My favourite one was when a villager uses the potion and started talking in a strange language such as Blannesamagawa loomajoobamooga and acting crazy. Some of them I made gave villagers the hiccoughs, bad breath, and some potions were harmful to the villagers I like the potion that the kids liked which was a yummy drink for the kids. The kids loved this yummy drink and were always begging me to make some, so every tea time I would make this yummy drink for the kids and they were always there waiting for it to be ready each day.

One day when I was doing the alchemy experiments, I must have put too much herbal mixtures in as I was staring it. It suddenly exploded and I was badly burnt and couple of the scientists after putting out the fire, had to help me to get first aid at the medical centre. I was fallen unconscious on the floor and them almost carrying me as I had been weakened by the accident. As I tried to get up after I came round and I was over come weakness and dizziness. Pogo said don’t get up yet, just take your time. The doctors bathed my wounds with herbal remedies which made me feel a bit better. The doctors told me not to do any alchemy for awhile until I was fully recovered. I stayed at the hospital for a few days, but was anxious to get back to try and find this potion that could transport a villager, which I had not yet found. Pogo kept telling me not to carry on with the experiments as he said it was too dangerous and was afraid I might get hurt again. I discovered that a few years ago one of the alchemists had died after an explosion and he did not want it to happen to me. In the end I decided to leave the experimenting for awhile and I just did researching and studying medicine until I had more experience. After all I was still only 14. I still did the yummy drinks for the kids as this was much safer to do.

I was beginning to notice that Ashby and I had not been working together for awhile. I must have been too busy doing alchemy to notice at first, she had taken up farming and I knew that she never had any skills in farming as far as I knew, and I wondered who was teaching her to farm as the guiding hand had not looked in or was not dew to look in. She had taken it on herself to farm. We always worked together on science and medicine and then for some reason Ashby decided to farm, like go fishing and that. Then I noticed her talking to a male villager who was around her age. It was Totolo, he had black hair and had red ribbons tied in his hair. It looked like he was teaching her how to harvest the fruit. I started to feel slightly upset as I was use to her relying on me and now she had found someone else. Then I thought I should be please that she was coming out of herself and maybe this was the reason why she had changed her mind about coming with us to the west shore. Maybe Ashby will tell her story in the next chapter of how we parted.

To be continued