Ashline Mana-Herb Cutting

Ashline is the engine-deck strain: narrow silver-veined leaves rooted in black pumice and charred coir, bred to tolerate dry heat and the soot that gets through every seal eventually. Bruised foliage smells of anise, hot stone, and faint ozone. Keep it beneath shielded amber light, water from a ceramic flask, and turn the tray away from open buswork before touching it with insulated shears. Licensed ship shamans and union clinics get first pick; casual buyers usually receive a single tired cutting and a lecture. Pale witness strips along the tray show coolant, copper dust, or fungal bloom before the plant does. Ignore them and the harvest carries a ragged charge: best case, useless leaves. Worst case, the handler takes a burn and the contaminated roots seed mold through the hydro return.