hotel: shinobu

[shaft]

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[shaft]

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Are you researching something?

[wisterin]

If I had the tools, I could research anything.

But mostly, it'd be nice if I could make medicine and poisons again.

[shaft]

Oh?

[ he looks interested, listening intently even as he pokes around the tools ]

What sparked your interest in those things?

[wisterin]

My family has always worked in pharmaceuticals. I picked up when I was young, and it only continued as I grew.

[ and then you create poisons because you realize you will never be strong enough to lop off a head. ]

The things I developed changed once my life did.

[shaft]

Poisons for demons, right?

I've dabbled in poison myself since I was young, but I never managed to have much skill in making medicine.

[wisterin]

Every poison I've made is to kill a demon or help to kill one.

But poisons aren't too far off from medicine. Too much of a medicine can be a poison, and some components of a poison can be a medicine.

[shaft]

Isn't that a nice summary of life... How easily things tip from harmful to helpful, and vice versa.

It would be fun to scour the courtyard and see what could be made from what grows there...

[wisterin]

I'd like that, but I usually like spending time with you.

[ affection week!! ]

They usually make both the helpful and harmful things harder to get to.

[shaft]

I enjoy spending time with you too, Shinobu.

Even if it does make me a little nervous.

[wisterin]

[ she tilts her head. ]

How do I make you nervous?

[ she doesn't bully him as much as some other people. ]

[shaft]

[ points at her ]

You have a way of seeing people. It's actually very admirable.

[wisterin]

Admirable but causes anxiety.

Should I feign blindness in your direction?

[shaft]

I wouldn't want you to be any less than you are, Shinobu.

[wisterin]

[ oh, that's so sweet it gets a fully genuine smile from her.

she holds out a hand to him. ]

My, I like this side of you, Claude-san.

[shaft]

[ oh, he looks a little embarrassed, but he will take the offered hand ]

Are you saying I'm not always honest? [ ... ] Don't answer.

[wisterin]

[ she pats his hand with her free one. ]

You already answered it for me. Thank you.

[shaft]

[ sighs, resigned to his fate ]

I'm curious to know if you intend to pick up medicine again... Especially if you're planning to return to Faerghus. They did have a terrible plague a few years back.

Anything to bolster their healthcare system would be life changing.

[wisterin]

I do. You don't think it's tempting fate by trying to modernize it by hundreds of years, do you?

[ bro... she's from the 1900s. she has access to books from the libraries. she wants modern innovations. ]

[shaft]

[ too bad blions route never tackles the agarthans ]

Personally I think any contribution you make would improve things for the better. Sometimes you need an outside perspective to make positive change happen.

[wisterin]

[ yeah, it's really too bad the first lord she met is all about his manpain and his feelings. tell her about the agarthans, claude.

she claps her hands. ]

If you say so, that's even more support. It'll be hard, if Fódlan is about to erupt into war.

[ since funds usually go towards war efforts, first and foremost, before anything else. ]

I'll figure something out.

[shaft]

I could give you all the secrets from the future, you know.

Cut the Empire off at the knees.

[wisterin]

I would accept all of them.

[ terribly, shinobu would never change the past, but she's fine with changing the future because it hasn't happened yet. ]

[shaft]

[ he laughs ]

Okay, I'll draft up a bunch of notes and hand them to you.

[wisterin]

Thank you, Claude-san. I appreciate it.

[ can't believe he's going to help shinobu wreck azure moon. ]