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[nineteenfortyfive]

[Here is one disgruntled English lady. You might have seen various shades of this annoyance after the pods plummeted to the earth, checking for injuries (maybe on you, personally), or more recently at the Sanctuary collecting blood. Apparently, the latter is why she's deemed it necessary to post.]

Thought I'd drop a quick word, given some of my experiences since we've all come together.

Now, I understand we all come from various worlds and times, with vastly differentiating forms of medicine, but I'm sure it's safe to say that bloodletting is not the preffered sort of medicine people want here. I don't care if someone here handed you a knife, of if that's what you're used to doing. That is not how you collect blood. You use a needle, and hopefully it's held by someone that knows how to find a vein. If you'd like to learn, I'd be happy to teach you.

Secondly? Your blood, assuming you're... human, or what the biologically average human is, is going to be used by anyone who needs it, rich or poor. The blood of a king is not going to make a beggar on the street suddenly somehow contend for a throne that doesn't even bloody exist in this world.

[There's a pause in which she almost calls a certain someone named Richard out, but she's a better woman than that. Just barely.

There's a flicker of a forced smile.]

Thank you.

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[nineteenfortyfive]

You're kidding. They trust that man with a weapon?

[Well, maybe he's a decent fighter, if nothing else. Doesn't take much to swing a sword about. Or whatever weapon.]

Vaguely, or specifically?

[song_of_ice]

He has a sword of his own.

[Which apparently sang or made music, he isn't certain which one. He didn't ask and didn't want to pursue it.]

Specifically. Near all he says doesn't make sense.

The way he speaks about his people. I have to wonder what they suffered.

[nineteenfortyfive]

I'm surprised he's allowed one.

[Don't be mean, Claire. She tries to reel it in, sighing, and shaking her head instead of saying more about what she thinks of that.]

He was rather worried that if someone "lesser" got his blood, they might pose some threat to his seat on the throne. Or something like that.

[song_of_ice]

[He laughs at that, even if it is mean.]

Thrones don't exist anymore. Our worlds were gone.

[As dark a thought as that is, it was a reality they needed to face.]

Why do you need his blood?

[nineteenfortyfive]

We were taking volunteer donations at the clinic. Blood can be used for a number of reasons, but the most important one is that if someone were to become ill and lose blood, or injured and lose blood, it can be replenished. Thus, death can be avoided.

[song_of_ice]

Not leeches?

[It was outdated, but it was the only type of blood work he was familiar with. What she proposed sounded dangerous.]

Why not use animal blood?

[nineteenfortyfive]

Not leeches. This is much more [sterile? Another word, for him.] clean, and safe. Less is wasted as well.

Animal blood could make a person sick. It's like fitting together the pieces of a puzzle, in a way. Horse or dog blood would be like grabbing a piece from an entirely different picture. It won't work.

[song_of_ice]

[She had a way of explaining things that made it clear and reasonable.]

Blood seems to be a complicated thing. I thought it ended with spilling it or the bonds it creates.

Where did you learn all of this?

[nineteenfortyfive]

It's important in those ways, too. But if you want to talk about blood in the medical sense, I'm your woman.

[He's open minded, at least. Better than some here.]

I learned it from other healers. And through books, too. [A pause.] And just hands on experience.

[song_of_ice]

If blood is spilled, it can be replaced?

[He wants to make sure he has that right.]

You sound like a friend of mine, Sam. He would do the same, I imagine. Read a book and try something like that.

[nineteenfortyfive]

More or less.

[She looks amused. Her school of thought, really.]

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.