Tu Shanshu

[Raine has spent much of her week attempting to handle several things at once, and as a result she looks both tired and slightly harried when she appears on video. All the same, there's something she hasn't handled which needs now to be outsourced.]

I'm looking for a Foreigner who arrived here a week or two ago. He's about a head taller than I am-- broad shoulders, auburn hair, carries a single longsword. His name is Kratos.

Should you see him, please don't try to apprehend or otherwise attack him. Simply inform him that I need to speak to him.

[She doesn't know why he's avoiding her. Although she has her suspicions, to confirm any of them would require talking to Kratos and finding out when he's from. Raine hesitates, then adds, very carefully:]

Depending on his point of origin, I may have some messages to relay to him from Lloyd.

...Thank you.

[And back to work. Perhaps this will bear fruit.]

Most of you likely know me, but I know we've seen some new faces recently. I'm Raine Sage; I run the Healers' Guild, in the Water sector.

Some of the recent disappearances have left us somewhat shorthanded, and we're stretched thinner than is optimal. If you have any healing techniques that can be passed down, whether magical or mundane, and you're willing to apply those or teach or, optimally, both, we could use your help.

[A sigh. Her shoulders drop a little.]

Even if you don't, we can teach those willing to learn. Right now, the desire to help is the quality that's most important.

If you have questions, I can answer them here, or simply stop by and ask for myself or Fletch.

[Attached to the broadcast is a location ping indicating where in Water the building is.]

[In the background, Fletch can briefly be seen, yelling.]

Nurses!

[Raine twists to glance at him, then back, bemusement there and gone again so fast as to be almost missed.]

Yes-- for those of you from an Earth, nursing is a highly applicable skillset. Fletch, my second, is a nurse himself.

[Hence the yelling.]

As with the rest of us, he's willing to teach.

[Raine takes a moment to collect her thoughts again.]

--As a side note, I'm still personally interested in the common threads between worlds, and how different magical traditions interact and intersect here. It doesn't matter if you're an expert or not; I want to build a more comprehensive picture, so if you have some time and we haven't spoken much on the topic before, I'm curious.

[Raine looks a little drawn, but otherwise her face implies her usual cool distance.]

For anyone familiar with my brother, Genis:

He’s returned to our world.

If he left any obligations of which I’m unaware, I’ll do what I can to fulfill them.

[That's it. Despite the fact this must pain her, she's holding whatever emotions there are close to her chest. There's a beat, in which it looks like she might be about to say something more, but then she closes the feed.]

[Raine looks serious when she starts the video feed. This isn't unusual, per se, but she also looks like she might have been ill recently. Either that or she needs a lot more sleep than she's getting.]

If you were wounded in the recent altercation, even if you were healed at the time, please check in with one of the Foreigner healers at the hospital, just to be sure. Whatever toxin was on those weapons is a nasty piece of work; I thought I'd purged it from my system almost immediately, but still suffered some not insignificant illness. [If anyone's familiar with how quickly she can heal most things -- very -- this may be slightly concerning.] Given who exactly was most probably at the root of the attacks, this is not the time for stoicism, especially if you were exposed to a greater dose.

If you were hurt, and especially if you notice anything out of the ordinary, let someone know. If the hospital bothers you, or if you have privacy concerns, you can come to me directly. Even if it turns out to be nothing, it's far better to err on the side of caution when it comes to the enemy. There are few enough of us that it's foolish to take needless risks.

[Raine is far, far too familiar with how hiding potentially serious injury or illness goes. She's not even sure there will be any aftereffects, but this is something with which they can't afford to take any chances as far as she's concerned. And given that the majority of Foreigners she's met seem to have a similar sort of stubborn independence... well, she's not even sure she'll get a response, but it's worth trying.]

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[[ooc; this should be only a few days after the big fight. timeline slightly fuzzy but definitely not after the fifth of September or so.]]