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[tongueamok]

Hello, this is Carlisle. I mean, it's not Carlisle as in I'm actually answering you right now, so if you're trying to reply to me at the second, you should probably save your breath because I'm not really here. This is some kind of a recording of my voice, but this is my communicator. I'm going to assume these devices are as common here as they are in other places — not my world, but others, ones more technologically advanced than where I come from— so if you'd like to leave me a message, then you may do so here, or er... Right. Here is fine. So just leave yo— [beep]

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| action. after simon's video post goes live.

[dedikated]

( hey, carlisle, get your hermit ass out here. )

Got a proposition for you.

[tongueamok]

[He cracks his bedroom door open. He has not been out for longer than a few minutes at a time in days, and it shows.]

I'm busy.

[dedikated]

( mmhm. ) Not gonna take long. Wondered if you'd want to do some more teaching.

[tongueamok]

[He lets out a long-suffering sigh and steps aside, pulling the door open so she can come in. If the booze bottles that are all over the place are any indication, he's been doing some drinking.

He's been doing a lot of drinking, actually.]

I am not a teacher by trade, Kate.

[dedikated]

( more than usual, she notes with a brief purse of her lips, stepping in. )

Most of us aren't doin' what we normally do.

( even if she technically is, it's not the same. nowhere close to it. unless Carlisle would like to found his religion here, or start worshipping the false gods. )

[tongueamok]

What I mean is that I have not the disposition for such pursuits.

[The copious amounts of drinking he's been doing are p r o b a b l y a sign of that.]

[dedikated]

( Carlisle, the copious amounts of drinking you're doing is just a sign of being you / life in the murdercave. )

Sounded like you were doing pretty well last time. ( with Emily and all. ) Just an offer, anyway. Summat t' do.

[tongueamok]

I will consider it.

[Maybe. He straightens his glasses.]

Are you interested in learning?

[dedikated]

Me. ( she shrugs. that's not untrue, but still. ) Settin' up classes at th' clinic. Wanted someone to talk about magical healing.

[tongueamok]

[He scratches at his hairline, his nerves showing.]

Healing is not as easily trained as glyphcrafting. One must already possess some talent for it, and even then, it can be dangerous to someone who does not know how to properly manipulate their energy.

[dedikated]

( alright, but; ) Think it'd be enough for a talk about how it works. People here who never had magic in their worlds, after all.

( come to think of it, it must be pretty weird to be magically healed you'd been convinced that such things weren't real.

and, actually. she's curious. )

There healing glyphs?

[tongueamok]

[Talking to a person or two in private on how magic works is far easier than talking to multiple people, especially when Carlisle is dealing with hangovers and headaches.]

Yes, though if someone unskilled were to activate one, the results could be disastrous for them.

[dedikated]

( more reason to drink less! )

Howso?

( because having more healing methods would be incredibly useful, but she can see the danger in allowing people free access to these sorts of skills. the damage Confusion's revival did was enough proof of what happens when powers are allowed to run amok. )

[tongueamok]

There is a reason that, when teaching glyphcrafting, you start with something that doesn't require much eksth'alva. That is what magical energy each of us innately has. Or at least humans.

[Don't ask him to teach Shadow or Glacius magic. He's lucky enough that humans from other worlds can learn.]

Not everyone has much of it, and if someone who doesn't were to activate something as taxing as a healing glyph, then that may be the end of them.

[dedikated]

( that's pretty clear, thank you, Carlisle. )

Reet.

( maybe not, then. )

You at least gonna talk about what th' process is like?

( Kate. there are nicer ways to ask that. )

[tongueamok]

To you, here and now, or the other people?

[The latter idea seems horrifying to him, if the way his nose wrinkles is a sign.]

[dedikated]

The others.

( for one thing, she's quite well acquainted with how being supernaturally healed feels like. )

[tongueamok]

I can tell them about the process should they need to know.

[dedikated]

Great.

( that works.

and, after a pause that's almost awkward in its length; ) Thanks.

( that's. the thing you say, right? )