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[baldrshand]

Hello all! For those of you who haven't yet met me, I'm Ethlyn.

I've started working in one of the clinics here, and it's both familiar and not... and it's become clear to me that the places we all come from are far more different than I could have imagined.

So I'd like to ask you about how medicine is in your homelands. Where I'm from, we use magic to heal wounds cleanly and quickly, but we don't always know what causes illness and infirmity. How are things for you--do you use magic to heal, or do you have to rely on technique?

As well as that--who else is a healer themselves? (And: can you ride?)

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[baldrshand]

To be honest? This is the first time I'm imagining it. At least as a real possibility instead of wishful thinking.

[what does this mean for her. what does this mean for her and her husband. what does this mean for her family, her brother, her father, her children, her old comrades that she meant to rescue....]

Are you talking of destiny? That some things are simply meant to be, no matter what our struggles?

[twelfthsong]

[ There have been few people he's met in his travels that are not wishful or regretful about something, including himself. But he is often a hypocrite, breaking his own rules because of the tender hearts that beat in his chest. This version of himself will be better at though, surely. ]

Time Lords don't particularly like frilly terms like destiny or fate, but yes. You're speaking like fate is something you've thought about a fair amount.

[baldrshand]

[There's a lengthy pause as Ethlyn considers how to reply. Back on Jugdral, she really didn't think much about it at all... until she met her own.

But she doesn't want to say that here. So instead she'll hark back to what she has thought of so much recently--when her brother and husband lost their dear friend to callous stupidity.]

I was thinking that I don't really like it. I've lost people I care for in war, losses that could have--should have--been avoided. I'm not sure what sits worse, the idea that they had to die for some greater reason, or that it wouldn't matter to the world if they vanished.

[twelfthsong]

[ There's a little bit of time before his reply comes. He's never had a problem being blunt with his delivery of words, but this almost feels as if Ehtlyn is speaking from a place of experience and considering everything he had just gone through with Clara, he's less inclined to be an ass about it. ]

Unfortunately those things happen in war. It doesn't make it any less tragic, but it's the consequence we "accept" as a result. The world as an inanimate planet doesn't care but the people left behind do. At least the ones that died mattered to someone at all.