"They look like more exhaustion and malnutrition than they do wounded, but please do."
Some of the figures borne in on stretchers are near-skeletal, others delirious from overwork, grist for the mills. The human cost of imperial industry on reverent display, passed from hand to hand as they're carried to the decks of the ships.
"Oh, yes. I wouldn't say I've got a talent for healing, but I'm decent enough, among my other skills. I just...I'm better suited to organization and archiving than fighting, I think!"
Totally not the fact that she trips over her own feet in a fight because she's used to being six inches taller, and her combat instincts still have more a swordsman air than the magical omnicaster she's aiming for in her new life.
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Some of the figures borne in on stretchers are near-skeletal, others delirious from overwork, grist for the mills. The human cost of imperial industry on reverent display, passed from hand to hand as they're carried to the decks of the ships.
"Oh, yes. I wouldn't say I've got a talent for healing, but I'm decent enough, among my other skills. I just...I'm better suited to organization and archiving than fighting, I think!"
Totally not the fact that she trips over her own feet in a fight because she's used to being six inches taller, and her combat instincts still have more a swordsman air than the magical omnicaster she's aiming for in her new life.