eachdraidh | Open and backdated to the 16th!

[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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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.

[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?

[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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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.]

That would be very helpful! I'm sure Kaldur'ahm would be pleased to have more help as well. It... well, I know I cannot cast the Sleep on humans, but it is so helpful, so being able to help them in another way if I should come across something and not have a human Healer near, would ease my thoughts.

I'll do some reading. My name is Dr. Frankenstein, by the way, if you want to get in touch before then. I've been trying to figure out how medicine works here, so I might as well kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.

The library here has many books on different things, herbs and healing included. I think I could live here for years and still not get through even half. So that might be a place to start looking.

[Pod still hasn't gotten a hang of the war aspect, really, having lived in a group of allied kingdoms that haven't had a real inter-kingdom war in well over six hundred years and have free travel between them.]

[Victoria's still new, and politics take a decided backseat to figuring out what is going on. Her cavalier attitude about rules when they get in the way of knowledge may be, in some ways, taking her court's creed too far.]

Thanks. I'll be in touch.

And thank you, as well. Until we speak again.

[Pod gives a little nod as she turns away from the locket to continue her work.]

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