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[valcurie]

Hello there! ( the image that appears is of a smiling blonde woman, healthy and bright looking, dressed now in pristine weight to present herself, projecting poise and elegance and friendly invitation to hear her out. her German Swiss accent is quite strong, though, so hopefully no-one is overly attached to their w's. ) I hope everyone is doing well this evening. I am coming onto the network to reach out to anyone I might not have been able to yet. My name is Angela Ziegler, and I am a doctor from Earth. Human, as you can see. ( a light, pleasant laugh and an even more pleasant smile ) You may also know me as Mercy. It's my agent name from when I was in service to a global peacekeeping organisation known as Overwatch.

I'm from the 21st century, so the treatment that I can offer you is science based ( a slight pause here as if she's considering one last time how to phrase this ) rather than magic based, but I have a good deal of practical experience with general medicine so there's almost nothing I haven't seen or dealt with. My expertise is in applied biotics, and I also have experience with gene therapy, prosthetics, and cybernetics, if there is anyone here who may need more specialised care. My qualifications also include emergency and trauma response so, if you ever find yourself wounded and in need of immediate attention, please do not hesitate to contact me. Think of me as personal 999 for refugees!

If you do come to me for any kind of care, I promise to do the best I can help you, while upholding all the oaths I've taken as a doctor to do no harm and to protect my patients. I'm not charging anything at this time.

And, if you'd like to humour me and help me to understand our group a bit better, I have a set of questions: do you believe you have a soul? What makes you think you do or don't have one? And is such a belief common where you're from? ( she doesn't mention religion, because it isn't strictly speaking a religious idea. she's known plenty of atheists and nay-theists who thought there was something beyond intelligence that made people paramount to other species. whether they called this unique internal animating light a soul or not, it didn't really matter. )

Comments

[insurgent]

then why ask about this?

[ souls. beliefs. things. ]

[valcurie]

I would better know what my potential patients think. And, at least just a little bit, aren't you curious about what people from entirely alien worlds might think? Such a perspective is fascinating.

[insurgent]

i've been all over my galaxy
people have different perspectives in every spaceport

but the places themselves are more interesting

[ seeing them, not hearing about them. ]

[valcurie]

( somehow, she can't say she's surprised to learn this. though unseen, she smiles lightly. )

What's the sight that's inspired you most?

[insurgent]

when i was small, i climbed through the crystal caves on alpinn
they felt endless

[ but they've been mined and destroyed now; she's sure. ]

[valcurie]

Did they ever change depending on the time of day?

[insurgent]

no
have you seen crystals that do?

[valcurie]

If the sun is hitting them.
But only stones, never caves.
I would imagine they are dangerous to climb in.

[insurgent]

oh
i see

[ so a change with natural light, not the way kyber shifts in the core of lightsabers. ]

not too dangerous, really, when you have an experienced guide

[valcurie]

Where there any other adventures?

I've always wanted to go skiing again. Maybe one day.

[insurgent]

a few
meteor showers on wrea
chases through the smuggler's run asteroid belt

[ others, too, but none that are untinged by sadness and loss. ]

what's skiing?

[valcurie]

That smuggler's run is one I'd like to try. Well. The run. Maybe the smuggling.

It's a way to get around in the snow. You put long thin boards on your feet and then manoeuver with poles. It's most fun when you're going down the side of a really tall mountain slope. My home had a lot of those.

[insurgent]

[ she thinks of the snow-capped mountains of alderaan. do they skii there? ]

only for fun?
or is to expedite travel?

[ look, there wasn't much time for hobbies in the war. ]

[valcurie]

It depends on where you are.
Some place still have soldiers the are trained as part of a ski unit.
They do stealth missions, espionage, that kind of thing.

[insurgent]

[ man, that sounds way better than some of the dust-bowl missions she went on. ]

interesting
do you think they'll have skiing here?

[valcurie]

I am sure they at least have something like it in mountainous areas given how primitive the technology is here. I am not sure if it would snow here in the Olympia area, however. I guess we shall see when winter comes.

If we do find snow, I would be happy to teach you if you'd like to learn. There's also snowboarding. You might like that.

[insurgent]

[ i mean ]

if we ever get the chance, i'd like that
you have a varied skillset, mercy

[ colour her impressed. ]

[valcurie]

( oh my god fun au time? )

Of course! I will be on the lookout for snow snow.
Do you really think so? I think we all have hobbies. Even doctors. And heroes.

[insurgent]

[ SEE YOU ON THE SLOPES

jyn... might not have hobbies... she likes to fight. and cook, sometimes. when she was in five points, she spent hours on the holonet reading and learning. perhaps those count. ]

i don't know if i've ever had time for proper hobbies
maybe that's unusual

[ hadder always said she was weird. she believes as much. ]

[valcurie]

( well there are those things that her nametag said.

should she bring them up?

maybe. to tease. )

Surely there is something. You don't work all the time, do you?
What about romance novels?
Maybe penmanship?

[insurgent]

[ she laughs. well then. ]

penmanship, yes
appropriating property
reading
perhaps not romance

[valcurie]

( hey, part of showing respect for someone, is also giving them a hard time. who cars if you also get to have a little bit of fun? )

Is that appropriating, or reapportioning?
Hmm. Not romance.
Space pirates, then? Whatever is the space equivalent of a swashbuckler.

[insurgent]

clary said was it was giving to the poor, in a manner of speaking

[ by stealing from the rich, little miss robin hood. ]

hah! we just call them pirates

[ no need for the "space" descriptor when everything's in space. ]

[valcurie]

So you're into wealth distribution.

All right then, pirates. Do you enjoy novels about them? I would think those have some romance in them. Captain Starsinger jauntily swindling his way through the nebulae to impress his aloof lady love, who lost her heart to a blackhole. Something like that.

[insurgent]

[ she snorts. ]

i've never read a pirate novel or novels at all
but smugglers aren't so dashing in reality
they take things and people wherever they're paid to go

[ so... literal... ANYWAY. ]

i've only read manuals and news articles really