[h1][b][i][color=#1d7386][center]Elodea[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h1][center][img]https://image.ibb.co/d3kmzn/elii_2.png[/img][/center][hr][hr]
[color=Gray]“Watch where you're going shark bait.”[/color]

Icy fingers clawed up Ellie’s spine, freezing her. Without turning she mumbled something that might have been an apology, her tongue leaden in her mouth. When she heard the creak of wood as Jack moved away she sighed, her whole body shaking as she made her way onward. She said a silent prayer that both siblings had better things to do right now than torment her. 

The dingy light of foxfire greeted her as she squeezed into her workspace. Phials and jars crowded shelves the height of the wall, though the workbench was kept clear of any loose materials. Ellie lifted one of the pieces of damp wood the glowing fungus grew on and used its light to scan labels. Methodically, her hands still shaking slightly from the encounter with Jack, she began sorting through various poultices and elixirs, setting several into specially designed nooks on the work surface, only Ellie knowing why. 

BANG! 

Even below deck, the painful ring of the rifle shot made Ellie jump. She almost dropped a bottle of laudanum, but juggled it in the air, then snatched it close to her chest and waited for the shaking to stop. She set it down carefully.

From a high shelf she pulled a large jar of numbweed. She folded up a leaf and put it in her mouth. It was dry and salty on her palate, and fibrous in texture, and her jaw began to ache, but she almost immediately felt better, her mind calming; the world numbed, the light seemed softer, and it was as though warm bubbles caressed her skin. Numbweed was curious; it acted as an analgesic and sedative in Sea Elves, but if a human was to consume it, they’d find altered affects only appeared six hours later, more akin to a certain species of fungus, by which time it would be fully absorbed into their system and unpurgeable. They would shit and spew themselves to death, wracked by violent convulsions. 

Ellie was glad of her heritage.