01: video

[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]

That's a very practical point of view. [Ethlyn says it lightly, wondering if Shionne really sees them only as that or if she's covering some sentiment.] Are they a skillful crew?

[There's an expression--a "one-horse town," a place that's so small and so poor that only one person there can afford to maintain a horse. If Shionne's hometown couldn't even claim that much--well, it's small wonder that she only sees horses as meat.]

Oh, I see. I grew up around knights and riders, so I'm as used to seeing horses around me as I am people. But if you have cart-horses, maybe our worlds aren't as different as I'm imagining.

[thornygunner]

I suppose it is. The others let sentimentality lead them, but they're good in a fight and I trust them. Enough, I suppose.

[Shionne does like her group, but she's still a while away from admitting to anyone, let alone herself, that she cares for them and what they think of her.

And if Ethlyn only understood that Shionne was born and raised on a space station, a flourishing one at that....]

Aldrip so far reminds me of parts of Dahna. It's....quaint.