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[wizard_redfive]

[Dairine can be found in the library, her table literally covered in medical books of all subjects and sizes. Spot is also there, his screen displaying a long list of healing spells as he stares at the towering book piles curiously. Right now, Dairine is scanning through a lengthy medical journal, frequently stopping to check words in a dictionary. Eventually she sighs and leans back, stretching.]

There has got to be an easier way...

Someone remind me -- how many years does it take to get a doctor's degree?

[Scooting the journal closer, she writes down a few filters.]

[ Filtered away from the First Gens, those who would tell them, bad people, yadda yadda ]

While I’m on the subject, did anything come of that mystery disease we read about in Lastlook? Any new hints or clues?

Or is it just another unanswered question we picked up along the way?

[ Katniss ]

Can I ask you something?

((Open to action or over journal.))

Comments

[onlyanapple]

I doubt anyone here cares if you have a degree or not so long as you can heal them.

[wizard_redfive]

That was not the point of the question, Crowley.

[onlyanapple]

Well what was the point? We don't even have med schools here anyway.

[wizard_redfive]

The point was figuring how many years it takes to cram all this information into your head!

[She waves her arms towards the pile of books, before remembering, 'oh right. can't see through the journal.']

[onlyanapple]

Again I feel the need to ask why

[wizard_redfive]

[Of course he felt the need to ask. Goddamn nosy demon.]

Because I've been reading up on the subject, and it feels like it just keeps going on and on.

[onlyanapple]

You know, most little girls read about ponies or dangerous-but-troubled vampires.

[wizard_redfive]

Read those already. Not really my type.

[Gonna grit her teeth and ignore the "little girls" comment for now. He'll just use it to spite her if she lets him know it bothers her.]

[onlyanapple]

[Yes. Yes he will]

So you moved onto medical texts? Really?

Dairine

[the_effect_she_has]

[Katniss is out in the woods, enjoying the change in colors -- and trying to figure out who is out there and giggling ... when her journal slips open. Bang! And there's a message, just for her.]

[The giggling is ignored, while Katniss sits on a log, and writes.]

Sure.

Katniss

[wizard_redfive]

[Oh lord, how to word this...]

You're good with weapons, right? [Yes, that's a rhetorical question. Humor her.]

Re: Katniss

[the_effect_she_has]

[Huh, only one way to put this.]

Yes.

Katniss forever

[wizard_redfive]

Would you be willing to teach me?

Re: Katniss forever

[the_effect_she_has]

[Huh ... not something she thought she would hear from Dairine...]

Yes. [pause] Why?

[wizard_redfive]

Is that "why" as in "Why would you want to learn?" or "Why ask now?"

[the_effect_she_has]

Let's say both.

[wizard_redfive]

OK then. But before we get into that, there's something you need to know about me.

[Deep breath. She never told Katniss about this before.]

I'm not an ordinary human being.

[squartatore]

Depends on how many you've already got under your belt. Still pretty long if you aren't some sorta child prodigy.

[wizard_redfive]

[Well, this is Dairine we’re talking about. Possible child prodigy, maybe one-time wonder child. (Dairine often worries it’s the latter.)

Either way, she's a remarkably fast learner.]

So I gather. Any idea what the usual start-to-finish time would be? [Someone's getting impatient.]

[squartatore]

[Crowley is right about there not being much of a need for degrees, though]

Let's see. Where I'm from, that's three years of high school, some number of years as an undergraduate, and you'd probably have to get work experience... [yes, Sayaka's counting on her fingers. Having healing magic means she'd never have much use for pursuing that path...now, that is. But she's thought of it] Definitely more than ten. Twenty or so.

[wizard_redfive]

[Luckily she has no interest in actually getting a degree. Just learning.]

Great. Just wonderful. [Scowling at the large pile of books. As if she could wait that long to figure this mess out. She needs to know things NOW! Argh, why can't they just read themselves?!]

[squartatore]

Why do you want to know? Or rather, can't you ask one of the doctors in the castle? [plenty of medical personnel here, the chances of hitting one by flicking a pebble into a crowd is pretty dang high]

[wizard_redfive]

I'm currently researching medical aid. That's why.

I could and I might yet, but the question was aimed to be more rhetorical. [As in, she didn't realize the journal was open. Plus asking a doctor one on one would make her feel significantly more ignorant, and we couldn't have that, could we.]

[squartatore]

[so stewing in frustration at stacks of books is preferable, because...?]

If it's about that Lastlook thing, any news found should have travelled quickly.

[wizard_redfive]

[Because that's how she learns things. Read first, then if you can't figure it out on your own, seek expert advice.]

That's half of it.