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There are probably people I don't know around now, because I just got back from a dungeon before the last jaunt so! Well met everyone. I'm Pod, and I'm a Beast Healer, or what some of you would call a veterinarian. If anyone's companions get hurt or sick, I should be able to take care of them. Oh! And you'll be hearing a bit from my brother-in-fur Kiga on the network from time to time too.

[There is indeed a psychic grumble that definitely isn't Pod. Kiga isn't bothering with the effort of actual words, but manages to sound long-suffering and fond anyway.]

Anyway, I was Saya again last jaunt, and it reminded me that I wanted to learn more about healing people before I left last time. Tachibana isn't here anymore...

[Her voice goes sad and she trails off for a moment.]

Anyway, if you know about healing, I'd love to learn from you! Or science; I know that science is very important to the healing in a lot of worlds. In return, I can teach all about herblore, cleaning and binding wounds and the like, which is very useful in worlds like the last one, if we don't want to stand out.

The last thing I wanted to talk about was maybe starting a garden, to grow herbs and things. I know that it's easy to just create plants, but I also know that I (and many others) infiltrate a lot, so if it's something that only somebody who was infiltrating knew how to make, we'd be in quite a bind. There's preserved herbs too, of course, but fresh are almost always more potent. Does anyone want to help me with a garden?

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There are a few healing tricks that we've figured out using the nature of liminal.

I think I remember someone talking about that once, and I'm eager to learn! Do you know what I'd need to figure out in order to do it?

The most important thing is to be able to create a form that others can follow to create something. Probably to be ready to follow the pattern of how the body should be.

Hmm.

[Pod is thoughtful for a moment.] I don't know how to do that yet. I've barely mastered making plants and edible food. For a while, getting Kiga on the network so he could talk to people if he wanted was more important.

What would be the next step after creating food; do you know?

To make a template you need to be able to combine that with working with your clothing. You're getting close.

Clothing.

[Pod parrots that back, just a little mystified.]

Of course it would be the one thing that I'd never thought to need learning. Is it as if you're making the clothes, like spinning the fiber, weaving and stitching, only Liminally, or more like just making an object? I know that plants are much more complex than clothes, being living things, but they aren't much different than making any other object, once I got the trick of food down.

It's a bit of both. Almost... a modification of what is there. That's probably why you need to build on it in order to create templates. It's easier to learn to work on the existing garments first.

Oh, I think I get it. It's making something new out of something old, rather than making it wholecloth from our thoughts.

[It takes Pod a second to realize how she'd phrased that, and then she giggles.]

With a little practice, I think I'll be able to get the hang of it. So thank you!