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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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"Alright, then, here." He swaps out the slides on the microscope. "Animal cells get a little more complex; keep in mind that, say, a blood cell would look different from these."

"Easy enough to figure out, even if we can't see things so small. Bone and sinew and muscle are all very different from each other. What cells are these?"

Pod is quick to take a peak, making an interested noise. "It is very different, though. I think I see different parts that put it together."

"Mine, actually." Sento laughs. "I took a small scraping of tissue from the inside of my cheek."

Pod looks at turns delighted, and just slightly worried. "It didn't hurt, I hope? Oh, I wonder what other cells would look like since they're different."

Pod doesn't want to bleed or cause pain for the experiment, but she runs her fingers through her hair and a couple strands come out, which isn't unusual at all. "Is hair interesting? It should be made of cells too, right?"

"Not really, no, just a small scratch." He grins. "The surface alone of the hair should surprise you, and it looks a bit different at the root and on the shaft, too. Here, I'll show you how to prepare a slide, too." And he takes the hair, fixes up the slide, and shows her how to get the microscope all set up to view it.