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[The post is open to both Seelie and Unseelie, only because Pod hasn't figured out locking yet (or, honestly, think it necessary). Pod appears on the lockets, surrounded by linen strips that she's rolling into tight rolls.]

I have been hard at work to make things for the army heading out. Wound wash and liniments and bandages, but all my work does not make enough. Not a job for one, this, so I thought, perhaps, that there might be others that would like to lend their time to the task and work with me.

I am also running low on some herbs I need. I would be most grateful if someone knew where else to find them in winter.

[She smiles and bows her head.]

If someone would like to join me, I am in one of the rooms in Caer Glaem that seem set aside for tasks such as these and can send directions. Or if someone would like to stop by and help by delivering them to those in need, that would also be a fine thing.

((ooc: there is indeed a log for those who want to help. and let's pretend this wasn't hideously late.))

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Well, that much I can certainly do! And tis true that any task goes the swifter for willing hands to do the work.

[ he chuckles [ Well! I do not know if your Kiga will heed me, but I can certainly try and keep him distracted. I will see you soon, then!

[...oh, he almost forgot about this:] You will have your locket with you, yes?

I do keep it with me, though I'm not yet used to checking it regularly. I am getting better at remembering, though.

He's been behaving himself with the herbs, at least, but has made off with a jar or two.

[Nothing too bad, and Pod forgives him, for it is in his nature to want to play from time to time.]

I do look forward to seeing you there.

[For his ease, she makes sure the directions are left in writing on the locket.]

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Well, I suppose even a Beast-healer's loyal companion must get bored when she pays more attention to her herbs than him. [ Faramir tips his head in agreement and memories the directions ]

I will be along shortly!

[He giggles.]

They are very silly little things.

Certainly something new to grow used to! But they do have their uses.

He does, at that, but I will say he's much better behaved than Trouble, or Jobbin. Most of the time. Though few creatures can outdo a ferret or a raven for making off with things.

Wonderful.

[She puts the locket down to focus on her work then. They can continue talking when he arrives.]

I haven't been here long enough to know for sure, but I suspect there's some overlap. A chemical is a form of matter with certain characteristics that don't vary. Chemists manipulate them to make new substances.

[In a sudden stroke of inspiration straight from her sixth grade teacher:]

Have you ever baked bread?

[It's like learning a whole new language, and Pod doesn't know if she quite understands it, but the explanation will have to do, so she nods and then answers the question.]

Not on my own, but I know how it's done.

I do make excellent millet and barley porridge, however.

[Well, she does! Bread, though, is not something often made in the chapterhouse itself, as they mostly get it in trade or just purchased with their payments for services.]

[Oh, they definitely have. He nods with a happy smile.]

You can talk to people even when you are alone.

Bread is basically chemistry. You start with ingredients that have certain properties, but when they interact, they change one another. Chemists do the same thing, but with purer forms of starting materials.

If I were an animal, I'm pretty sure I'd be a cat. So I think I'd be too happy living inside to show off my fancy coat.

[Lumina is already basically a feral cat...]

Oh cute. [The wolverine is getting a finger wave as she leans closer to the locket.]

And no matter how far away from them you are!

[Pod takes a moment to consider this.]

I suppose that makes sense, though it seems to me it would be the yeast and the warmth that would change the bread the most. So is that the...chemistry?

There are some cats who would feel the same, I know, but yet others who cannot resist the call of a good hunt and go out even into the cold.

[The wolverine watches and huffs a little. He is not impressed with lockets; they have no smell.]

Yes, very much. Applying heat is a really useful way to change the nature of something in all kinds of contexts. And yeast is also a tiny organism itself. It consumes certain kinds of sugars and puts out C02, which turn up as the bubbles you see in the dough. It's why the bread rises.

But everyone else will hear what you are saying if they want to.

[That is kind of a problem. ....and no, he doesn't know about locking messages and privacy settings yet.]

[Pod is pleased to have understood, even though the concept is still a bit confusing. What's CO2? And yeast is a tiny creature? So many questions, but she refrains from asking, as she's worried it will make the confusion worse and not better.]

So the medicines that a Healer or simpler makes are chemistry too?

Well, I think that if you wish to speak with only one person it goes to only them. And if you want to just speak to whoever will listen, anyone can.

[Pod isn't sure of this, but only the person she'd asked to speak to responded when she tried that!]

[Victoria is not at all used to have to work so far backward; it's a mercy she doesn't use more references that prove incomprehensible.]

Yes. Almost exclusively, at the moment, though we're working on other sorts of medicines to use in the future where I'm from.

[We'll skip the gene therapy and nanobots for the time being.]

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...You tell the locket a name?

I asked it to bring my words and image to who I wanted to speak to, and he answered, so if that is not the proper way to do it, at least it was one that worked.

If the medicines are so far above what I know, I can only imagine what improvements might have been made in spells. Well, things like the Sleep, as a Healing, I don't think can truly be... improved. Not in the way a simpler's recipe can, anyway.

[Of course they would have spells. Pod can't imagine it not being that way. But as she's thinking about it, it reminds her of another conversation she's had.]

Oh! Do you know much about these medicines and this chemistry? I was speaking with a friend, and he was very interested in the Sleep, and perhaps finding a way for others to use it on humans--I cannot, as a Beast Healer--and spoke briefly about something similar being done with specially prepared herbs that required some kind of equipment. Perhaps, if you do know of it, you could help us.

I know more about their application than compounding them, I'm afraid, though I did run into a doctor who specialized in chemistry when I first arrived. Usually a soporific agent - one that causes sleep - depresses activity in the brain, but there are a lot of ways you could do that. Herbals... I could try to do some research and get back to you?

[She doesn't touch on the spells. Not that she doesn't believe in them - so-called "magic" demonstrably works - but because she hasn't yet made much headway as to how they do what they do, and she'd rather talk about something she understands than something she's unsure of in front of a stranger.]

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