She is amenable to this! He knows his country better than she does, and she will leave it to his discretion for figuring out what to do with the samples of magical flora and fungi she gives him.

"I do not suggest that you should necessarily be so cautious on your own. Carthak is simply in a poor place to displease the gods at present, if any other unforeseen consequences of the plants are equally disruptive to their domains. In Tortall... angering the Great Gods is never a good plan, but it would be more easily survived."

Iovetra nods.

"I am still a new arrival to the world, and - Vardoran was not exactly a safe place. Quite the opposite, really. I do not want to disturb the balance of this world with my arrival, and I feel understanding and cooperation is the best path to that goal. So - discretion is probably wise, much as I want to flood the world with healing potions and fertilizer and anesthetic."

Solemn nod. "In such things, we are ever at the mercy of the gods."

"Healing potions? I'd not heard about those. If you can't find a god to tell you they're fine I'll ask Ma on the equinox. She's busy but, but if you have recipes for healing and childbirth better than what we've got I'm right sure she'll find the time."

"Oh, yes, sorry - I'd brought some for when I was taking blood, but they turned out to not be necessary. That one's from the blood roses - er, sorry, wrong language, that's the literal translation - rosanguis. The roses on my castle." The ones that are the exact same too-red color as her hair. "It's absolutely possible to overdose on them, but they can help quicken recovery from injury, especially."

"Also good for childbirth bleeding?"

"Especially that, actually! I - think I was a midwife, actually, before..." She trails off, awkwardly, unwilling to get into her tragic backstory. "... Before."

"So was Ma. She'll find the time."

Iovetra nods, clearly pleased at the possibility of healing potions spreading!

Everyone is happy with that! Healing is rare and it should be easier, and she can get enough gods on her side to make it work.

"How is it raw? Is it a poison like the mushrooms?"

"No, but it also doesn't heal if eaten directly. It does need to be concentrated, and it's specifically the roses petals that provide the healing properties. I can explain how brewing the potion works, it's one of the easier ones."

"When it gets wild and— animals eat the petals, will it do much?" Potion brewing instructions after ecosystem consequences, she knows her priorities.

"They can become a bit larger and stronger, if eaten over a long period of time - it helps with their muscles healing, which leads to strength - but most animals think it smells weird and tastes funny. I expect them to eventually figure out that it's worth eating, especially here, the animals seem wiser in this world, but the stuff grew approximately everywhere in Vardoran."

"D'you know how it works on meat-eaters? A bit larger and stronger deer won't hurt the packs too badly, but if it's all the prey and predators stay the same I need to warn the People."

"It works the same on predators as prey, I - think I remember some wolves being very clever about eating rosanguis after a hunt? Hm. I don't remember exactly where that happened or when I observed it, I probably ate a wolf that did that. Anyway, this does mean that the predators would also be bigger and scarier, so I do think avoiding letting it grow wild is wise, but. Healing potions are I think more important, people get injured all the time without animals being involved at all."

She blinks at the mention of eating a wolf, but— well, that's how it goes. Better eaten than just hunted and left to rot.

"It should be. Our wolves don't eat humans, and bears only if they're true angered. Yours are maybe worse."

"The wolves weren't dangerous to humans, though they did sometimes go after livestock," muses Iovetra, who is clearly remembering this in a far off kind of way. "Sorry, my immediate experience with wolves were in the cursed forest, where - the animals were not well. I'm trying to remember from before. Nothing was well in the cursed forest but the dead, really, and even they were often doing poorly. I want to avoid something like that happening in this world, but I wasn't... awake.... for it happening in mine, so I don't actually know what caused it. I don't think it was the rosanguis."

That does sound more like the wolves she is used to!

"Of course. I'll ask Da as well then, he should know if anything we're spreading might do that here."

Nod. "Thank you, yes. I'd like to avoid bringing over the worst parts of Vardoran, while still bringing over - fertilizer and healing potions."

That established, Kaddar will go back to discussing proper plant care. This was a good distraction but it can't keep him away from his interests for too long.

Proper plant care!!!! Iovetra is so pleased to talk about this. She's also really knowledgeable about these plants. Oh, oh, and she recently came up with a tonic that helps her roses better withstand the desert.

" - that one is ignilos based, actually, sorry I forgot to mention it, I don't know if it'll work for things that aren't rosanguis, but it's worth looking into. It's - new and weird and experimental."

He won't even turn to emperor mode at that! "Is it just for sealing against moisture loss, or also nutrients? There are so many problems with growing plants in the desert, I have some experiments but I can never be certain whether they're working in one way or just not at all—"

Night will eventually fall if nobody interrupts them. 

"Sealing against moisture loss, though I suppose it might also provide some nutrients if used a bit differently, but really the tonic was kind of a hack job when I found my castle suddenly in a different climate -"

Iovetra is fine with this trajectory of events. She can talk about plants!!! She doesn't remember the last time someone wanted to hear her talk about plants!

And in time, the sun dips below the horizon, shadows creep across the ground and then charge across, and Kaddar will soon need to sleep. Iovetra is welcome to stay if she wishes, but they expect she has other things to do?