Helgha put water to boil over the firepit while she reached up for the raspberry leaves from a shelf over the door. Both she and Inga busied themselves preparing infusions to help the populace of Jorvik deal with the flux currently running through the city.
She had left her two children with Liv. She and Inga would be very busy with the preparations and she did not want two small children underfoot. She needed to make a great deal of medicine for everyone who needed it. All the herbalists in the town were busy with so many people being taken ill.
After putting the leaves into a crock and pouring boiling water over them, she left them on a shelf to cool. She went outside with a pail to gather water to steep more herbs. Earlier in the day, she had foraged in the forest, gathering as many r
