[i]Careful you don't teach me too well, Ahna. I might end up getting better than you.[/i] Fendros thought as Ahnasha got into her serious training mood.

After a short amount of wandering, they spotted a suitably wide dead tree trunk and begun at a moderate distance. Under Ahnasha's instruction, Fendros adjusted his technique as required. He had improved in leaps and bounds since they first found him a month ago, but there was still room for improvement. Especially when compared to Ahnasha.

After a while, it wasn't Ahnasha's tone of voice, but her body language that betrayed something troubling her. At first Fendros played it off as nothing. As it persisted, he couldn't help but notice. "Ahna, you've been fidgeting. Is something bothering you?" He asked with concern.

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"And... welcome to Montgrave Remedies." Ariel said proudly as Janius and Sabine followed her into the apothecary shop. With a flick of her wrist, Ariel caused a magelight on the ceiling to brighten and illuminate the room. Rows of cabinets with various jars, bottles and ingredients on display filled the small room with most of what the everyday citizen of Vos would need. Without hesitation, Ariel walked around behind the counter and picked up two small empty crates and a small empty sack. Taking out a key she walked over to one side of the shop and opened one of the windowed cabinets that was full of bottles of various liquids. "Janius, if you could put the potions from this shelf into one of the boxes?" Ariel asked. Janius nodded, taking one of the crates and beginning to fill it. Ariel then continued by looking around with an arm outstretched, looking for something in particular and mumbling to herself in the process.

Sabine walked slowly through the shop, running her fingers over the display cabinets and inspecting each label. Much of it, she understood, they were just medicines and supplements. Other things, she wasn't so sure about. Whether they were brand names, or just things she hadn't heard of before, it was still enthralling. "There it is!" Ariel said, her hand suddenly visible in front of Sabine, making her jump. "Oh, sorry Sabine, I was just looking for this fortification potion." Ariel unlocked the cabinet in front of them and pulled out a bottle of dark liquid, "I give them brand names that make more sense to spellcasters, you see. I don't really want to see these squandered with the effort it takes to make them." The bottle read [i]Phantasm Tonic.[/i] It didn't look like what invisibility potions normally looked like, so Sabine figured that it was likely something which helped with illusion magics.

They packed up with various other things, including a couple of big, deep red potions and a small green potion from the storerooms. Ariel also gathered up a few ingredients and let her sister pick some out. Ariel made sure to bring enough of the required reagents of the suppression gas resisting potion to make enough for all of the pack later. With that, they headed off, locking up the shop behind them. "We're lucky that I didn't have any orders to fulfill this week." Ariel mentioned on their way out, "I'm sure this town can bear to have my store closed for a few days."

With Ariel and Janius carrying a crate each and Sabine holding the now full sack in her arms, they ventured back up to the cave within the day.