ET- Chill Vibez Herb Packet

  Later, when all was quiet in the gourd, and the Parent was sleeping, E.T. went out into the forest and picked those night-blooming herbs that he alone knew how to combine—into a scent that would soothe a troubled mind. It was an herbal packet only masters of botany could manage, for the moment of picking was crucial and the moons were involved. He labored all night, through the shadows of the forest, from glade to glade, until he had the packet he wanted, one whose special powers of tranquility were unsurpassed.

  “A very strong packet is required,” he reminded himself, and added yet a few more ingredients, so that he had the very quintessence of that which is soothing, which erases recent disagreeable incident, and neutralizes disappointment. A sachet of this sort, left within a sleeper’s room, would rearrange the elements in the mind into higher patterns, so that what seemed at first to be discord would be seen as a secret sort of harmony.

  “At least I hope so,” he said to himself, and returned to the gourd. He crept to the Parent’s bedside, where he placed the soothing packet of herb magic on the pillow beside the Parent’s head.

  “Do your work,” he whispered to the sachet, “for my dear progenitor has had a lot to put up with of late, as regards a certain member of the family.”

  E.T. watched for a moment, and when he saw a frown line soften on the Parent’s head, and a troubled pressure around the eyes release, he knew he had succeeded. And he crept from the room as if he were the spirit of the herb called Silence.

- E.T. The Book of the Green Planet, chapter 2