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[Claire looks a little tired. Maybe it's due to the recent trek through the jungle, but more likely it's because her husband's returned to stasis. She could talk about that--with anyone, really--but instead she'd much rather focus on this. So, here she is, mustering up a pleasant smile.]

It's a belated thank you, but I would like to extend my gratitude to everyone that helped during our last crisis.

That said, I have noticed that quite a few of you have some interest in being helpful, and not just when it comes to fighting. You'd like to help the ill or injured as well. However, there's not always time to walk newcomers through something such as sewing a wound or changing the bandages on someone bedridden. So, with the help of Dr Watson, I'm hoping to make us better prepared in the future.

Every other month we'll be holding first aid lessons. Basic skills, answering questions, clearing up any misconceptions. Consider it a health class. Take notes, record it, whatever you'd like. If you have anything about medicine or anatomy that baffles you, please attend. Of course, we're always available for general questions.

We'll be offering two sessions. One will be on the station on the morning of the 9th, in the simulation rooms, which we encourage everyone to at least try once if they're interested. If that makes you uncomfortable, I suppose we can hold the other in Olympia in the evening.

[Her place is now an option, but she's not going to announce that bit to the whole network. Claire hesitates before deciding to end the feed.]

Thank you, and we hope to see you there.

[OOC: Class is in session! Feel free to answer a roll call here, even if your character plans on only attending once. The actual lessons will be handwaved but feel free to use the "classroom" time in your own logs.]

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That sounds like something from a fairytale, healing magic...

[of course he's met those here who say they have it - seen it in action once or twice since arriving. It's still so strange, so wondrous, though.]

All I have a two good hands - I should like to learn how to use them. I knew something of the properties of plants and flowers of my home, too. [a little chuckle and a shake of his head] But those remedies seem almost... primitive, when I think of some of the things I have seen here.

[That's right up Claire's alley, and she smiles a little easier than the polite one she puts on.]

No, that's good knowledge. There are plenty of plants here that I'm still learning of, and that are being discovered. You never know when that information can come in handy.

I've not had much time to search for anything familiar. But it does rather make me miss the house I served in, the gardens there.

[but there was no bringing them back now. The video shifts a little as he moves, settling]

I am learning what I can about what is here, though. Wyver is much unlike my home with so many things growing wild... I'm no discoverer but I took a guide of what others had learned before me and took one or two cuttings for myself. Your home was not much like this one either, then?

You served in a house? In what manner?

[At his question, she shakes her head. No, neither home was like this.]

Olympia is more familiar, but still very different. I lived in a place that was very green and wet most of the time.

[And now it's gone.]

This and that...

[perhaps he is being evasive - truthfully he wants to give an answer, but... not to give too much away to a relative stranger]

I was quite young when I came to the house - the housekeeper and the maids had some difficulty finding tasks for a child to do! I suppose that is how I ended up in the grounds with the gardeners for much of my youth. Once you make a competition of it it's quite an easy thing to set a child to pulling up weeds or dibbling for bulbs...

[a little hum and a dip of his head]

It might be nice to visit Wyver on occasion, but I'm not sure I would stay. I was... more comfortable, I think, in Olympia. I was beginning to make a home there.

I see. [She picks up on the hesitance there, and doesn't push. Those sort of tasks sound similar to what the young children at Lallybroch got up to in an effort to keep them busy and helpful.]

I agree with you there. I think the majority might feel that way currently, but I can't say for sure.

[well keeping busy, certainly. That and there isn't much work for a five-year-old in a brothel.]

I think it depends on the individual, on their temperament. I can imagine Wyver suiting one or two of the people I knew from home.

Forgive me, I never had your name, miss. Mine is Linneus.

[just like his username, but he knows they can be misleading from time to time.]

Ah. My apologies. Claire Fraser. A pleasure, Linneus. Did you awaken with the first group here?

Miss Fraser, then. [or Miss Claire. The "Miss" part probably isn't going anywhere for a good while] A pleasure.

I didn't, no. I've been here about two months, though, now, though what with the evacuation I can't say I'm exactly settled as yet.

The first group, you said? Then it hasn't been long that people have been coming out of this "stasis"?

[Doesn't mean she won't try to get rid of it.] Just Claire is fine.

I came with the first, perhaps a month or two before you. I'm afraid it's easy to lose track of time here.

Compounded, I fear, by the different seasons we have perhaps come from. It was summer when... before I came here. So we should be heading into a mild autumn, by my reckoning- [a slightly sheepish smile] -not that I have been counting the days. But it appears we are headed for winter instead?

I do wonder if our months are even the same, but I think it might be strange to ask a local to name the months of the year.

It was September, for me. [Months, right. Claire shakes her head and clarifies:] Autumn.

Come to think of it, I haven't bothered trying to look at a local calendar. The months don't matter much when you're going at it day to day, it seems.

[a little smile, a touch of relief]

We have September, too. But I would still be interested to see if the month names differ, or how.

But I suppose it doesn't matter, day to day.

I wonder if they have anything like... Yuletide, or Christmas. Or if they celebrate birthdays. Things like that.

[Well, if she's bored, she supposes she could people watch and see if she can figure it out...]

I wonder. I do hope so. It is commonplace where I am from to exchange gifts towards the end of the year, too.

If it is not a tradition here, perhaps we might be able to make it one.

That's how cultures and traditions are shared. I'm sure the people here wouldn't think it too odd.

Then perhaps I shall try asking, if only to see how it is taken.

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