The Mage's Heart
The inn keeper’s plumply pretty wife and daughters, one unfortunately taking more after her father than her mother, watched in entertained bemusement from the doorway.
“Why three fisheyes, not four or two?” I muttered.
“The rule of three,” Rivyn replied mildly as he sorted through the herbs. The little earth ware jars clanked as he forced the seals open in order to look within. “Ah, good, marjoram. It’s old, but the seal was good, so it will do.” He had an array of small pottery jars lined on the scarred benchtop before him which had passed the initial inspection, and he was in the process of transferring the contents into many little pouches from his bag.
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