Behind and slightly to the side of her, the Head Healer has been watching Nina Zenik work.
It’s not a job interview, but it’s also not not a job interview. Strange has been trying not to hover like some anxious helicopter parent, but as soon as she explained what she could do — tailoring, what a euphemism — he’d swooped in to recruit her for the infirmary. It could come so very much in handy, for an organisation currently lacking in spirit healers.
So he looms like some incredibly fascinated bat-winged surgeon, desperate to see exactly how Nina does this and feel how the edge of the Fade responds as she works her magic, watching and marveling as the skin knits itself back together.
He watches as their patient leaves, the scout absently rubbing their new scar, now fully healed. He politely waits long enough for them to be gone, before he turns his steady blue-green gaze back on the young woman in front of him.
“I am,” the doctor starts, with a faint smile crinkling the edges of his eyes to note that he’s kidding (mostly) (sort of) (except not entirely), “intolerably jealous.”
infirmary variation;
It’s not a job interview, but it’s also not not a job interview. Strange has been trying not to hover like some anxious helicopter parent, but as soon as she explained what she could do — tailoring, what a euphemism — he’d swooped in to recruit her for the infirmary. It could come so very much in handy, for an organisation currently lacking in spirit healers.
So he looms like some incredibly fascinated bat-winged surgeon, desperate to see exactly how Nina does this and feel how the edge of the Fade responds as she works her magic, watching and marveling as the skin knits itself back together.
He watches as their patient leaves, the scout absently rubbing their new scar, now fully healed. He politely waits long enough for them to be gone, before he turns his steady blue-green gaze back on the young woman in front of him.
“I am,” the doctor starts, with a faint smile crinkling the edges of his eyes to note that he’s kidding (mostly) (sort of) (except not entirely), “intolerably jealous.”