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This testing is utter nonsense.

[She's been unconscious for a week because of it, and Doc Yewll is not happy. In fact, she's livid this is even something that's been requested of her.]

I didn't even need this! I've already been married. [She's angry enough to blurk that, but doesn't even miss a stride. Because that doesn't matter anymore.] But noooo. Instead I get to spend a week in a tube because that's the way to show a girl a good time.

Their little matchmaking system can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. If anyone needs me, I'll be in the infirmary doing my damn job.

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I agree wholeheartedly. Simpler lifeforms may be content to partake in this nonsense, but personally I would have much preferred putting my time into something actually constructive.

Curious: Have you any idea why your body reacted in such a way to the physical testing?

No idea and maybe that's the most irritating of all. I have to try and figure out if it would happen to any Indogene or if it's just me when I'm the only one on board. As far as I know, no one else had the reaction.

...Yes, your field of viable test subjects is rather tragically limited, if that's your goal. I would offer my assistance, but unfortunately my specialty is in gemetics and mechanics. I doubt that I would be of much use to you.

[Although the way she says kind of hints that she's hoping the good Doctor will ask her to help anyway. She's so bored, Doc. She's so bored all the time please offer her extra work]

Mechanical is good enough for me.

I need some non-invasive chemical scanners. Some patients have skin so tough that I can't take a sample. That means I need another way of looking. When the attacks happened earlier, there were scars. The scars have damaged cells. I need to see if everyone with those scars has similar damage but I can't with everyone because their whole arm won't fit under a microscope.

[And scanners only do so much.]

When I'm done with that I'll check my own DNA, tell these people what they should look out for.

Chemical scanners? Hmmm...

[Oh man oh man oh man this is so exciting. She's grinning dancing a little on the other end of the line, but keeps her voice level.]

It'll be challenging, and gathering the necessary resources may take a while, but... Yes, I should be able to assist you with that.

What would you need? I could try to grab something if I bother leaving the boat.

You might want to talk to Tali, too. I'm sure the engine room has some extra crap laying around.

[She's actually very appreciative of this. It frustrates her when she can't get answers.]

Hmmm... Raw materials, mostly, or parts that I can strip and re-purpose to help build the proper components. I can compile a list and send it along, if you'd like. I'll go down to the cargo bay and scan the supplies in storage to see what we already have, as well.

I've yet to encounter this "Tali" of which you speak, but if they're present in the ship's directory, I suppose I shouldn't have any trouble getting in contact with them on my own.

Might have seen her around. She comes with a few less fingers than humans and a couple more leg joints. Otherwise supermodel figure.

Alright, green and sassy. [There's nothing about that that sounds like an insult.] I trust you to get it done.

[She almost wants to ask about the 'green and sassy' comment, because it confuses her, but she decides to let it slide. Good thing she's not on camera though, because it makes her blush.]

Thank you. [Pause.] One last thought: I'll see what I can find out about this "Link'd Inc"'s testing methods while I'm off the ship, as well.

Thank you, too. An online dating service shouldn't run the risk of putting someone under.

[Peridot nods.] Well. Until next time...

[And the video feed cuts.]

It is nonsense, even without unfortunate side effects.

[Unwelcome and invasive and absolutely pointless. But it's the last thing said that really catches Rosethorn's attention.]

I'd like to talk to you. I'll come by the infirmary now if you're not busy.

I'm not. I'll be glad for the distraction. [She still sounds grumpy, but then again she always sounds grumpy.]

I'll be here for a while. I should be well rested after that hell of a nap.

[Rosethorn sounds grumpy herself a lot of the time. She knows better than to take it personally.] I'm not assigned to the infirmary and don't want to be, but I have some medical experience. I'll be there shortly.

[She's already inventoried her kit to see what she has to spare, and spent enough time in the garden to know what she has to work with by way of new plants.

A few minutes later, she'll show up in the Infirmary.] Hello, I'm Rosethorn.

[Lady carries herself well, Meh can give her that.]

I'm Doc Yewll.

[She approaches and offers her a hand to shake.] What can I do for you?

[She takes the offered hand in a firm grip.]

I'm a gardener, primarily, and that's my position on the ship. I also make and strengthen plant-based medicines, and I've done a fair amount of work with infectious disease research and treatments.

Then we have a common interest. Those medicinal flowers growing in the garden are mine. I use them to make customized medicines.

They're Votan.

Come on, I'll let you see what I got. [She wriggles he finger at her, beckoning her to follow, before she heads over to where she extracts plant materials.]

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[Oh, Rosethorn is certainly interested. She follows, offering as she does:]

I can probably strengthen some of those for you, if you'd like. I'm a plant mage.

[A lot of what Rosethorn does is based entirely on the natural properties of plants, no magic involved. Some, though, is enhanced by her power.]

That would be useful. Especially since most of these come from planets that don't even exist anymore. I have to rely entirely on maintaining a population without letting them become functionally extinct.

[Especially those glass looking ones.]

Sometimes I have to refine it, sometimes applying the leaves directly will do the trick.

That's another thing I can help with. It's not good for plants in the long term to speed their growth cycles, but I should be able to get batches of seeds for you, and then grow new plants from those seeds to maturity at their normal rate.

[She's done it before, when her own stock needed replenishing. Rosethorn didn't recognize some of the plants, but they'll tell her how they grow best.] Could you tell me what you've been using them to treat? Getting to know a new plant population means starting over on figuring out their uses.

Alright. [She holds up a red flower, broad petals curling around like twists of a debutante's hair and dangling down.] The petals of this contain a chemical that relieves inflammation. It's one that needs to be extracted from the petals to be effective.

This- [She holds up something that could pass for a sunflower, except the petals around it look more roselike.] -is a pain reliever. It can be used directly on humans but it doesn't do much good for many other physiologies.

And those particular glass ones are hallucinogens. Don't touch them with your bare hands at all.

[Rosethorn nods at the explanations, including the warning about the glass plants. She won't tempt fate by touching them. There is one relevant bit of information about that, though.]

I won't.

I hope you won't have me as a patient, but in case you do, be aware that I'm likely to be less susceptible to some plant-based substances than most people are. I'm an ordinary human, just... one who can deal with most plants with minimal side effects. My own kit will have stronger versions of a majority of the standard medicines I carry, or you can increase dosage in most completely plant-based treatments without damaging my body.

[Meh closes her eyes, and looks utterly exasperated. But, surprisingly, not with the fact she will have to be patient.]

The most irritating part of hearing that is that I want to understand how you do that, and I can pretty much bet that I'm not going to be granted the means to understand. [She grunts unhappily, before offering her a pair of sanitary gloves.]

Here, you can take some small samples of them and tell me what you think.

Magic, especially ambient magic, which comes from an element of the natural world, isn't as quantifiable as you might like. I'm connected to plants in a way that most people aren't.

[She puts on the gloves, reaching over to pluck a couple of leaves from the nearest glass plant.] I've never seen anything like them. The closest I've ever found was a living metal plant, and that was created in a magical accident when a plant mage and a metal mage accidentally combined their powers. These were naturally occurring?

Yeah, they were.

Beautiful, aren't they? I had grabbed some as soon as I got there. I always look for new plants wherever I can find them.

Now they and whatever ones they make will be the last of their kind.

[She says it with the same somber reverence she has for the Votan worlds, their people. They only were saved because of the Arks.]

I might try to breed some viable hybrids.

We have that in common. [She's been traveling for a year now, and she picked up a number of plants along the way.

Rosethorn frowns at the revelation that these plants are the only surviving members of their species. The only thing keeping them from extinction is the small store of them on the Moira?]

They are beautiful. I'll certainly help with propagating and crossbreeding them. [She would have anyway, but this puts it at the top of Rosethorn's list of priorities when it comes to the garden.]

A tube? What happened?

[She's trying not to sound especially amused - the monetised matchmaking isn't exactly what she was wanting or expecting from their next pitstop, but to her it's fairly inoffensive - the clear offence from Meh is something...kind of funny, OK, she can't help it.]

I lost consciousness. I don't know what happened between then and now but "side-effect" was an understatement for me.

Keelah-- [She breathes the word like an explosive sigh.]

I thought the tests were harmless - for everybody. How are you feeling now?

[It's nice to have people ask that. No one ever asked about her back in Defiance- they just expected things of her. Not that she found much fault with that- she had a lot to pay back. But still, the question is good.]

I'm fine, except for my head. It always hurts after stasis.

Good to hear it. I guess if I told you to take it easy for a while, though, you wouldn't listen, huh?

[Most of the people she knows wouldn't. She wouldn't, so saying that is the height of hypocrisy.]

I don't exactly need the same amount of rest as normal people.

Besides, I probably need to defrost my brain. Jiminy Christmas. [Grumbled.]

I probably don't need as much rest as I'm getting right now, but it's still nice to have. [Her voice is light - she has a feeling Meh doesn't just mean, 'my species doesn't sleep as many hours a night', but it's not like she knows that for sure.]

Have you not been down to the planet yet?

I think I'm okay. You guys can enjoy the love shack. I'll just be here to treat whatever people catch while they're out there having fun.

[And she's not meaning the common cold.]

[She gets the meaning, and gives a short 'hah' of a laugh.] I'm glad we've got you here looking out for us.

...Not that I'm going to come back with... You know what I mean.

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