Rína's dream of independence and perhaps even an apothecary shop of her own were under threat by an impending arranged marriage. Seeing no alternative, she fled for the wider world, but her escape did not go as planned. Now Rína finds herself lost deep in a forest and at the mercy of a seclusive witch whose doorstep she has intruded upon. But all is not lost as the witch follows the law of hospitality... and may even be willing to take on an apprentice. What to expect: - A road-story with a chill slice of life status quo that needs to be occasionally protected using graphic violence. - Wholesome adoptive mother/daughter relationship. - Emergent hard magic system with cultivation style progression. (The magic system's simple rules are at a low abstraction level, akin to physics, and everything from souls to the types of magic to cultivation progression to undead and ley lines all emerge from those simple ironclad rules.) Schedule: There is none, chapters take as long as they take.