Solara Meadowlight's Arc

Chapter 9 of 10

Solara spread her record book across the workbench and studied every entry from the past months. Fourteen successful healings stared back at her. She knew her aim was steady now, her equipment reliable, and moon phases tracked carefully. But something was missing. She needed a place to share what she'd learned. Other healers should see this technique work. She found a stone courtyard three paths away from her cottage, with a raised platform in the center and curved benches forming a half circle around it. Sun symbols decorated the stone seats. She stood on the platform and pictured herself there, demonstrating treatments while visitors watched. This was where she could prove her method worked. She arranged to use it twice each week for anyone who wanted to learn. The courtyard would turn her private experiments into public knowledge. Back home, she realized she still couldn't predict the exact angle of sunlight during different seasons. Winter sun sat lower than summer rays, and she needed to know when her best healing light would arrive each day. She crafted a wooden branch and hung glass prisms from it at different points, each one catching sunlight and throwing rainbows across her workbench. When she turned the branch slowly, the prisms showed her how light shifted throughout the year. She marked the positions on her table and recorded them in her book. Now she could schedule treatments for the strongest light, no matter what season came. One thing remained. Travelers passing by wouldn't know what she did here unless she told them. She painted a sign showing fairy wings glowing with golden sunlight and hung it outside her door. The image made her cottage look like what it was—a place where broken wings could heal. She stepped back and looked at everything she'd built. The courtyard for teaching. The prism branch for tracking light. The sign announcing her work to anyone who needed help. Her technique wasn't just ready anymore. It was complete. Tomorrow she would begin sharing it with the world.