herbalism 101

[impetuous_force]

Bella's driving home from Olympic National Park, herbs all wrapped up in paper and stashed in a Macy's bag on the driver's seat. Ho hum. She doesn't need most of them; she's going to dry them and take them home to Phoenix where she can trade them for equally nonindigenous-to-the-Southwest botanicals. The perks of being a child of divorce.

barbecue forks

[cross_and_bow]

When the Swan girls move in to Charlie's, it doesn't take long to notice that something's up. The sunset curfew is a weird thing to hang onto in the middle of winter, the statistics Charlie uses to justify it are weirder.

The way Bella can suddenly do gymnastics after she and Soph have been moved in for a couple of weeks is weirdest.

Scratch that: the apparition that shows up in their bedroom, causing Bella to punch the bunk above her with surprising force in order to wake Soph and confirm that she's not hallucinating? That's weirdest. And so is what it has to say.

Soph sleepily wonders if Slayers have time to play softball. Bella opines that she does not think any of this is a good reason for her to start playing softball.

Soph goes to sleep. Bella stays up, at first, then she crashes too.

And the next day during her free period she's in the library, peering through the vampire books.