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With Mrs, FitzGibbons having brought her more garlic bulbs, herbs, and old linen than half of her had been expecting there to be on hand--it's hard to wrap her mind, with the few glances she's had, of the size and population, both, of Leoch--Claire can focus on the one thing that she knows, even in the here and now: being a nurse and caring for her patient. In this case, Jamie.

Boneset, comfrey, and cherry bark all are set to step in a pan of hot water; peeled cloves of garlic, witch hazel, and the linen strips are set into a boiling iron cauldron. Preparations have always steadied her, allowed her to let go of other concerns and worries, and even with the huge amount she has now, preparations still work in that way.

And with them done, she turns to Jamie, expression and tone both somewhat softer than they had been before (on a horse, with the rain, in the night, in the bloody past and with that realization immediate, rather than merely fresh in her mind) at times. "I'll have to take off the old bandages and your shirt, first."
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OOC: Shortly after--or before--this.

Her head hurts.

That's the only thing Claire know, that her head hurts. Everything else--everything else is more topsy-turvy than her mind can cope with.

Her husband, dressed in clothing 200 years out of date, did not try to rape her, because things like that just don't happen, though that does beg the question as to how her clothing became so torn that a woman brought up a more normal way than she would probably be blushing. Especially as her dress is soaked and while the mad Scot rescued her from the (hallucination? dream? is all of this a dream?) rapist, he had no problem openly leering at her as he did so.

Claire, personally, is more concerned if she's delusional due to an extreme and previously unknown allergic reaction to one of the wild flowers she'd been gathering and--oh, look, more men who clearly aren't up to date with fashion standards.

More Scots, too, from the accents she hears. She wonders if they're also mad.

(She wonders if Ichabod Crane came from this...she doesn't want to think the word she knows is true. She doesn't want to think 'time'. But she can't help it, even if everything in her screams it can't be true.)

(She refuses to let herself wonder if she, however, is mad. Delusional, dreaming, poisoned, concussed--dead, even. All of those she'd consider. And she will. But God--even if she's the biggest heathen a Catholic has ever been--don't let her be mad.)
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