This chapter has a slightly nsfw paragraph that I've tossed into a 18+ repost, and the end in another repost with a content warning for myiasis (maggot infestation). If you've come across the incomplete chapter, here's a link to the full chapter.
I assure you the research notes for this chapter will absolutely have a content headsup <.<
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Sometimes The Mountain Buries You is a queer novella about the things that threaten your attempt at a much-needed quiet life. Check out the about page here.
There are more salmonberries than the ones that had been rearranged elsewhere. Sheppard tells you this while you debride mostly shale from a scrape over your kitchen table. You met him while headed to his cabin, much like you wished could have happened when you brought Murre to him including the light enough injury that he'd normally not come down for. You ask if It is around. "Oh, maybe, I didn't check. I figured I have to meet Murre at some point," they twist their arm to look at the scrape, "I figured this was better than something, uh, serious."
As much as you're glad for his foresight, you do wish he had come into town during clinic hours so this wasn't happening at your kitchen table—you had considered this happening in the clinic any ways but that meant swinging by your cabin to pick up Murre and the three of you walking back through town to the clinic together.
"Oh you know some good salmonberry patches?"
"Yeah," Sheppard says, smirking a little. "I know all the good patches."
links and search terms from writing 'There are more salmonberries than the ones that had been rearranged elsewhere'.
- https://sierraclub.bc.ca/salmonberry "Salmonberry"
- https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/DocumentLibrary/plantguide/pdf/pg_vame.pdf "United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conversation Service Plant Guide Black Huckleberry"
- "neck anatomy"
- "maggot life cycle"
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3255963 "Myiasis" cn: medical descriptions and photos of maggot infestation in humans (like, extremely graphic, holy shit, take care friends)
