“The commandeering is a first,” she assures him, with a tilted smile. “But I suppose it's still a remnant of a different life.”
She always wants to be precise; the instinct is to correct him, that she was never really part of the infirmary, all of her assistance unofficial, voluntary, elbowing her way in to make herself useful when it suited her and occasionally thieve supplies. Nothing she'd call work — likely nothing anyone who was there, then, would call work either. If, and she doubted it, they had any particular memory of it at all.
Rolling bandages in a tent. Guenievre's hands, steady, at the edges of Asher's beard.
—but where had she learned to do that? It's not not coming around, it's only further back than that.
“Well,” after a moment, “I've never been paid for any of it before, so I don't know if I can use the word career. It'll be novel to care for people who might not die, at least. It must be stranger for you, to—” a little wiggle of her hands, “—bring it all together.”
no subject
She always wants to be precise; the instinct is to correct him, that she was never really part of the infirmary, all of her assistance unofficial, voluntary, elbowing her way in to make herself useful when it suited her and occasionally thieve supplies. Nothing she'd call work — likely nothing anyone who was there, then, would call work either. If, and she doubted it, they had any particular memory of it at all.
Rolling bandages in a tent. Guenievre's hands, steady, at the edges of Asher's beard.
—but where had she learned to do that? It's not not coming around, it's only further back than that.
“Well,” after a moment, “I've never been paid for any of it before, so I don't know if I can use the word career. It'll be novel to care for people who might not die, at least. It must be stranger for you, to—” a little wiggle of her hands, “—bring it all together.”
Medicine, magic.