She coughed into her hand, then coughed again. “I mean, I hoped it would never get this far,
but it just seemed incredible that all that time we could see a yew tree from our own house.
And that very tree could be the thing that healed me.” Conor’s mind was whirling, so fast it almost made him dizzy.
The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?his mother went on.
We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.”
Is it going to save you?Conor asked, barely able to even say it.
His mum smiled again. “I hope so,” she said. “I believe so.”
COULD IT BE?
Conor went out into the hospital corridor, his thoughts racing.
Medicine made from yew trees. Medicine that could properly heal.
Medicine just like the Apothecary refused to make for the parson.
Though, to be honest, Conor was still a little unclear about why it was the parson’s house that got knocked down.
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