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[i was about to bookmark this so i could refer back to it to confirm whether she had or hadn't seen any of these before but then i realized the healing pods might actually get rid of them.

anyway.

she is from a historical canon and she is not, in fact, familiar with bullets! she's familiar with arrows, which don't leave the same sorts of wounds. her brows knit together as she tries to imagine what sort of projectiles could have left those wounds, and then furrow further as she spots one that still has a bullet in it. (unless it's healed over and the skin is covering it? help.)

she doesn't say much, but she very studiously takes note of each and every injury she sees. she takes meticulous notes. she even does a quick sketch of a vaguely person-looking form, numbers each of the wounds, and assigns the same number to each description.]

[Jiuqing taking notes certainly gets approval from November]

Is it as bad as I thought?

[...he kind of hopes the answer is yes because if the answer is no then it makes him look bad. This all killed him, after all! It better be incredibly lethal beause anything less is an affront!]

I'll put it this way: if you breathed wrong and dropped dead right now, it wouldn't surprise me.

[........this was going to be a gagtag but you know on second thought i'm keeping it]

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[The way Jiuqing worded that is absolutely hilarious and November finds it that way too, laughing for a second before stopping himself, snorting]

I thought so.

[He reaches for his shirt and coat]

I'll spend the full eight hours in those pods in a day or two. If I have lived this far then waiting a little longer should be no issue.

[And if he dies before being able to heal, well, that's how it is. No regrets, really]

It's a plan. I'll be here, so just let me know when you're ready.

[...]

If the pod doesn't fix it because it's something from before you came here, I can probably help treat your injuries. They're severe, but you haven't died of them, so I can at least help speed the recovery process along.

Please do so.

[While he puts on the clothes he had taken off, he adds:]

By the way, I assume this is covered by confidentiality of some sort. I'd rather people to be generally unaware I'm on the verge of death.

[Mostly because it'd lead to them asking questions about how it even happened and that's just a can of worms]

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[honestly i don't know if they have the concept of doctor-patient confidentiality in her canon]

I won't go telling everyone about it. But I might share my notes with Sir Chang, if that would be alright with you. He's a doctor as well, so he can help you with your injuries if I'm not available.

Would that be alright?

...do you trust Chang? I'm willing to accept your judgment on this regard, but I want to know if you trust him beyond appreciation of him as a peer.

Hmm... well, I'd trust him to see to my injuries if I got hurt. Which is more than I'd trust some of the others to do.

Though that may fall under appreciation of him as a peer...

He's been kind to me since we arrived here, though.

[Having received kindness from someone feels like flimsy reasoning to trust someone, in his opinion. At least he keeps that thought to himself, unwilling to go and scold someone else for her opinion]

I suppose you can tell him.

[Mostly because of a more pragmatic reason: if something does happen to Jiuqing, then Chang would have to take the mantle as the doctor around here. Better make sure he's informed about this, yup]

[she nods]

Even if the pods do heal your wounds... it'd be good to have someone know what was there before. We don't know that there won't be complications from the pods down the line.

[like damn they can't see what's going on inside. maybe the fixing up is all surface level? she doesn't know!!]

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