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of bacon sandwiches and exchanged pleasantries with the older lady whilst they were being prepared.
    Once she was back, both women sat back and enjoyed their simple breakfast whilst Dera ran a practiced eye over her stall. She had a different section for each of her wares and she wanted to make sure they all looked their best. She loved meeting the people, both regular and tourists that came to buy from her stall, but she also had a sharp business head on her shoulders and her wares had to look their best. Her herbs and potions were her biggest sellers; she carried a few trinkets from some of her more artistic friends, who made them in the nearby picturesque town of Llangollen, but mostly she concentrated on her herbal remedies and potions. She had a number of diehard regulars who swore by her concoctions as well as the tourists who were usually fascinated by what she had on her stall, so she was looking forward to a busy day. She smiled to herself. It was a good job she was a Twenty First Century girl, only a couple of hundred years ago she'd have been accused of witchcraft; the thought made her smile secretly to herself.
    The market soon began to fill up with people and she shortly had a small crowd milling around her stall asking for advice on various ailments. Dera had a strict code of conduct, she never diagnosed an illness in anyone and she always advised her customers to attend their GP if they were asking advice about anything that was less than minor. Having said that she could tell with just a touch of her hand whether anyone was seriously ill or not, she had never had to worry about inadvertently making anyone ill or their condition worse.
    She had just finished selling some herbal tea to one of her regular customers for dyspepsia when she had the weirdest feeling. It felt as though someone was staring straight at her. She turned around quickly but couldn't spot them so she shrugged and turned back to her customer.
    "Here you are Mrs. Roberts, make an infusion of these leaves, steep them for ten minutes and then drink the liquid slowly. Add some honey to sweeten the taste. I have some homemade honey here from Mr. Davis's bees if you don't have any, it's not expensive. Keep away from fried food, it plays havoc with your digestion. And go see the doctor if it doesn't get any better, he'll want to check up on you"
    "You're a good girl Dera." Mrs. Roberts replied. "You're a real credit to your grandma, you've done her proud."
    Dera felt a prickle of tears at the back of her eyes and blinked them away. "That's a very kind thing to say, Mrs. Roberts." She said softly, "I like to think I've remembered most of what she taught me but sometimes I'm not so sure, I still miss her so much."
    "I don't think she could have done better herself." The older woman replied gruffly. "We were friends for years, it's wonderful to see you carrying on her work."
    Dera hugged the older woman. "Thanks Mrs. Roberts, you've just made my day." She watched fondly as her grandmother's oldest friend walked away. Now in her eighties the little woman still walked with a back that was ramrod straight.
    It was getting close to mid-afternoon and the crowds were gradually starting to thin out as the air became cooler. Dera shivered though not with the cold, she could feel eyes boring into her and even though she had searched repeatedly for whom they might belong to, she had not yet been able to pinpoint who it might be. She decided to forget it, she was hungry again and a late lunch sounded a good idea. She decided to shut her stall up for half an hour whilst she ate her packed lunch and checked her eBay store for orders. Thank heavens for mobile internet she thought wryly to herself as she got settled onto her fold up chair.
    "Hey Dera, are you there?" A sweet melodious voice shouted from behind her stall. It was her best friend Meaghan.
    She poked her head around, "I'm here Meaghan, busy on my Ipad, come on round." Dera immediately sensed the heavy