Blood magic, is what some of it may look most like.
[ Which. Is a whole other barrel of worms, and why Isaac had seemed the right confidante for this. (That, and he seemed to know what he's doing.) They aren't in Nevarra anymore; magic or no, he doesn't want Sidony toeing a line she can't get away with here. ]
It may be enough simply not to rely on her if a patient is in a precarious position. She might not appreciate that, but I would rather her first mistakes not be lethal ones.
[ Note to self: less blood magic talk at parties. ]
I mean surgeries, primarily. I don't know what her other training has entailed exactly, but the Mortalitasi do a fair amount of repair work on the dead. Some of these things -- let us say, I would not teach a mage who had not taken vows. But without magic, some might be translated to the living.
it would be smarter to put distance between the pair of them. anders, gareth, nell — they're all appropriate weathervanes. known quantities of little consequence to the world at large. but a noblewoman and a mortalitasi (kostos counts for neither) can shrug off an accusation more easily. onto his own head.
it would be easier, it would be foolish. this is a fortunate warning. this can be useful. this is coincidentally a pretty solid bone structure. ]
Then caution's most due in the field — she has been seldom outside Nevarra?
Nor have I, to be quite fair. In that respect, your guidance would be invaluable.
[ At least he knows enough to know he doesn't know enough? (And that this request is perhaps a bigger, more dangerous sort of thing than he ought to simply trust to a man he's just met, but sometimes the quickest way to find out if there are rocks at the bottom is to jump in.) ]
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[ Is that too honest? It's been a long day. Ilias makes a soft, resigned sort of noise, head tilting back to settle into his chair. ]
She wants to be taken seriously, that is all. I do not think she intends anyone harm. But that would not keep her from doing harm, you understand.
[ Admittedly, his standards for altruism may be a bit high. ]
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[ but there's no heart in it; a man with a rake and working knowledge of the human body can do a lot more. ]
I'll happily keep an eye on your student, but I do need know what to look for. I'm an apothecary, Ilias,
[ unless she's developed a sudden, severe case of magic. (if he's foregone ilias' own title, well, liberties) ]
And we've no shortage about the place.
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[ Which. Is a whole other barrel of worms, and why Isaac had seemed the right confidante for this. (That, and he seemed to know what he's doing.) They aren't in Nevarra anymore; magic or no, he doesn't want Sidony toeing a line she can't get away with here. ]
It may be enough simply not to rely on her if a patient is in a precarious position. She might not appreciate that, but I would rather her first mistakes not be lethal ones.
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[ gareth is his first, paranoid thought — his ideas the second —
but there’d be far easier ways to trap them both. isaac doesn’t bother to disguise the pause before he speaks, ]
How closely might it resemble that?
[ ilias can assign the source of his concern as he may. and my icons as i may, ooc, because email tags ]
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[ Note to self: less blood magic talk at parties. ]
I mean surgeries, primarily. I don't know what her other training has entailed exactly, but the Mortalitasi do a fair amount of repair work on the dead. Some of these things -- let us say, I would not teach a mage who had not taken vows. But without magic, some might be translated to the living.
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[ the charming local history, etcetera.
it would be smarter to put distance between the pair of them. anders, gareth, nell — they're all appropriate weathervanes. known quantities of little consequence to the world at large. but a noblewoman and a mortalitasi (kostos counts for neither) can shrug off an accusation more easily. onto his own head.
it would be easier, it would be foolish. this is a fortunate warning. this can be useful. this is coincidentally a pretty solid bone structure. ]
Then caution's most due in the field — she has been seldom outside Nevarra?
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Nor have I, to be quite fair. In that respect, your guidance would be invaluable.
[ At least he knows enough to know he doesn't know enough? (And that this request is perhaps a bigger, more dangerous sort of thing than he ought to simply trust to a man he's just met, but sometimes the quickest way to find out if there are rocks at the bottom is to jump in.) ]
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[ like, not that it's covered in flowers in a nice part of town or anything ]
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[ 'work'? 'calling'? 'mucking about with corpses instead of quite reasonably burning them'? ]
If you'd prefer a guide, I might arrange the time.
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[ How generous. ]
The day after next, perhaps?
[ He's got a date with a corpse first. ]
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[ Or would it? Food for thought. ]
In the afternoon, then. I have every faith we can manage it.