Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25924729-20160209062713/@comment-26130256-20160414214630

"I started young, as you might guess," Opal explained. "Both my parents were pharmacists, and they were surprisingly generous with letting me look through their old textbooks.  My mother minored in botany, so I looked through those too.  Something about the idea that the same chemical extracted from a plant could kill you in one form, but save a life in another just fascinated me.  I mean, think of curare, for Grimm's sake!  The same plant used as a poison by indigenous peoples for centuries, we now use extracts from it in surgery as a muscle relaxant!"

"I think I was about fifteen when I first got into gardening, and apparently I had a green thumb.  The kind of plants my parents only dreamed of seeing, I could make them grow.  After a few months, I finally talked my father into letting me get a few foxglove seeds, and things simply snowballed from there!  It was actually when I was at college studying chemistry and botany when I first met Sienna..."