Same for me. It's odd. I really ought to take a sample—
[ At what's likely an alarmed look from the boy, Camilla quickly clarifies: ]
From myself. Don't worry. It's just—
[ She's not used to carrying on conversations with strangers, and she finds herself faltering trying to explain herself with someone who doesn't just automatically know everything she intends. She almost glances to the side, as if Palamedes Sextus might be hovering right behind her shoulder, shoving his glasses up his nose, quick to step in and carry the chatter for her. But he's not here. She's on her own. ]
I knew people in medicine. They'd have a field day with this. Makes me want to figure out how it works, too.
[He squints, trying to envision just what to do with a sample. Put it over a flame to see if it will melt? But it is important. There's no life without blood, and there's no healing if you don't know what that blood will do.
Do they all have this blood now? Something carried over from that earlier form? But a squid would have normal blood too...
He prods at a drop on the rocks next to him, already frozen and evidently quite stuck. So much for that as a sample.]
Maybe...maybe there are people already here. [Maybe. This could be undiscovered land. Or the inhabitants might not, strictly speaking, be people.] They might know.
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Date: 2021-09-17 03:52 am (UTC)[ At what's likely an alarmed look from the boy, Camilla quickly clarifies: ]
From myself. Don't worry. It's just—
[ She's not used to carrying on conversations with strangers, and she finds herself faltering trying to explain herself with someone who doesn't just automatically know everything she intends. She almost glances to the side, as if Palamedes Sextus might be hovering right behind her shoulder, shoving his glasses up his nose, quick to step in and carry the chatter for her. But he's not here. She's on her own. ]
I knew people in medicine. They'd have a field day with this. Makes me want to figure out how it works, too.
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Date: 2021-09-28 07:34 pm (UTC)Do they all have this blood now? Something carried over from that earlier form? But a squid would have normal blood too...
He prods at a drop on the rocks next to him, already frozen and evidently quite stuck. So much for that as a sample.]
Maybe...maybe there are people already here. [Maybe. This could be undiscovered land. Or the inhabitants might not, strictly speaking, be people.] They might know.