justice_is_blond | Inbox for Fade Rift

[Anders smiles and gestures at the wash basin.]

More than tolerate. Someone to bounce observations off would be welcome, but if I tell you to stop you'll need to stop right away. I'm taking apart what dragon organs I can to further what I know of how they deal with the Blight. There might be a risk involved.

[ She goes to prepare and clean herself, nodding her head. ]

I didn't get this far without some understanding of how to follow instruction. [ She offers a small smile. ] I am prepared to take the risk.

I got this far thanks to flouting instruction.

[Amusement shows in his eyes and voice as he rolls back out the small knives and tweezers before pulling a cloth off of a very large liver on a tray. He holds his hand over it, and his hand glows an orange-red.]

Thawing this out. I freeze what I get to stave off decay as I can't always get to it right away. The gangs in Darktown get more worked up during the cold months, it seems.

I'm not quite as old as you yet.

[ Said with a small smirk, to show that she's probably joking. Probably.

Unfortunately, she does not look at his hands, deliberately glancing elsewhere, a wrinkle on her nose. ]

It seems like a logical thing to do.

[His smile grows at her comment only to fade as she looks away.]

...Is something the matter?

[She'd let him heal her and she's not had objections to his company so it's not magic that's the problem here, he's fairly certain. But he also can't see why she'd might be squeamish when she'd made no face as he told her what they'd be doing.

Anders finishes the thawing and watches her, eyebrow raised.]

No, nothing at all.

[ Her aversion to magic is nothing that concerns Anders. She dislikes looking at it if only because it reminders her of her own faults and failures - not good enough for her dreams, not good enough compared to her brother. ]

Please continue.

[Calling out something he's unclear about seems a waste of time and also possibly goodwill, so he moves on.]

What we're looking for, [he says as he starts a careful incision along the side of the organ,] are small sections of swelling that might be present. Dragons seem to be able to seal away the Blight until it overwhelms them, but I don't know what parts are involved.

[Or, honestly, the full relevance of parts that are involved.]

I've... I've far less information than I'd like to have. But how is the largest question, because I'd like to see if it can be used, somehow, to make the cure less of a risk, or if there's a way to stave off the Blight for longer for those who might not want to risk the cure.

[ Sidony leans closer immediately - not so close that she might be a bother or, perhaps, risk some kind of danger, but enough that she can see what is happening and what is going on. She's clearly curious and there's a twitch to her fingers, like she wishes she might take notes. ]

Something like a tumour? Some place where it is stored before it overwhelms them?

[ An imbalance, she thinks, much like one humour too much compared to another. When there's too much of one a sickness occurs. ]

Are we investigating, then, a means of transferring what the dragons do to humanoid bodies?

[He nods at her questions as he finishes butterflying the liver and opens it.]

Not so much transferring as if we can further it, see if our bodies can isolate it but then purge it on their own. The current cure is...

[Anders exhales.]

Not only is it complicated and kills more than it saves, there's an ingredient in it that's vastly difficult to obtain. Great dragon blood. So few Great dragons and so much Blight makes it fairly impractical except when someone is desperate.

[There's a wry smile tugging at the corner of his lips for a moment before he's back to looking studious.]

Any creatures other than dragons get blighted and they succumb quickly. Sometimes it takes scarcely an hour, sometimes a couple of weeks, but only once has it been longer. Dragons can go on for so long. If I'd some clue about how, maybe I can make my imperfect cure a little better.

Isn't that true for many ways of healing?

[ There are more dangers in medicine than many people might be able to wrap their minds around; she had learned that through studies and seen it on the battlefield, even if it is only one battle that she can put behind her now. It was experience enough for her, and she breathes out gently. ]

I've never seen the Blight first hand. I've learned a few things, from books, but I doubt they're particularly true to life. [ Sidony is obviously completely interested in the dissection happening in front of her, eyes wide. ] How much do you think you'll learn?

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