cherrywood | IC INBOX | The Cherrywood Healer

[ It took him a bit of poking about after this conversation but in general he'd found technology fascinating back in LA so it wasn't too much of a challenge. Just enough to make it worth while.

When he was certain he had the right inbox (and he was certain, despite the question in his opening tone) Lucifer began speaking. ]

Hello to a Ms Milyn?

[ Oh, well... that's sure a welcome sight on the video. ]

You've reached she!

[ Of course he's a welcome sight!

And the fact that he's not yelling about dust or something may be a part of that ... who knows?

At the moment, he is smiling. ]

Excellent! [ As if he had any doubt. ] Right well I'm not big on beating around the bush, I got your name off a very inflammatory announcement about you. Don't know if you saw it, kind of hard to miss.

[ Often, he'd pause about here but he's learned, from Detective Decker, to sometimes clarify is purpose. ]

I'm not here to join the 'oh nnoooo, betrayal' [ yes that came complete with mock hand wringing and falsetto voice. ] party, for the record. Too new to all this for taking sides. Actually I was curious about what's going on?

Mm, actually I haven't seen anything to that effect! But I might not have been looking in the right places.

[ That is, she has a network console in her shop, but not a Foreigner radio handset. ]

But given your description, I can make an educated guess! Actually that's really what I do, when you get right down to it, so much of healing is making educated guesses based on symptoms and reactions, well all of science is actually like that, much as the old Guild heads would shriek and scold to hear healing and science lumped together, as if they'd ever been separate. If you ever want a way to curb nostalgia by the way, just think of how even good things can be so frustrating by those who don't understand your methods! Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a challenge as much as the next girl but to be so completely stonewalled when you know you're right and they'r just being so obtuse about it.

So Valdis made an announcement? Oh dear, I'm really starting to be concerned about her blood pressure. Did she go the snaking shadow thing again? I'm not used to people's stress levels having such apparent outward symptoms, although I suppose it would make it easier to diagnose, stress can be absolutely unforgiving on the body.

[ Finding her so quick to chatter on, and on, Lucifer's eyebrows bounced but he waited patiently and heard her out. Her mannerism was engaging and he found himself smirking slightly with approval at her comments about people not understanding one's methods and knowing you were right and everybody else was being obtuse. ]

Eons of dealing with the Host leaves me sympathetic to your plight, love. [ He said in a dry tone before pausing to let her finished.

That she quickly identified Valdis, yet showed no outward anger or upset at the knowledge of what the woman had done, was ... informative. In fact, Milyn's focus appeared to be more on Valdis' health, rather than what the woman had said; very interesting indeed. ]

Growling, actually. [ He piped up, not holding back a whit. ] There was very dramatic growling, punctuating her message.

However, despite the intense growling I'm afraid she wasn't particularly forthcoming about what exactly was going on. She mentioned that you worked with followers of Malicant but that you also aided us [ he pointed to himself, he's picked up that he's one of the 'Foreigners' by now ] in defeating Malicant.

So I'm honestly trying to sort out where the problem is?

[ Milyn doesn't get the reference of the Host, having no context for it, but she appreciates that he empathizes with her frustrations. ]

Well, I try not to hold the growling against her given her nature, dear.

I did work with Daseng's group, well specifically Daseng himself, I studied under him for a time, and developed several positively brilliant new strategies for waking us kedan from the muted state Eshai's magic had put us in. One of the earliest variants of that was Dust, although it had the poor side effect of only enhancing negative traits... Malicant capitalized on that, later.

The second base I developed however, that was much more successful. It's now called Lucid, though I didn't have any hand in developing what it is now.

And of course I did what I could do to help against Malicant; I wanted him gone as much as the rest of us.

You might be in a better position to identify the problem than I am, I'm afraid,

The growling I'm quite used to actually, makes for nice foreplay in the right circumstances. The one word answers to simple questions was a bit vexing.

[ Which was part of why he decided to head straight to the source, so to speak. ]

I'm sorry, love but new here and being that this is all outside my father's creative control, this is a bit of an unknown: for once. Still putting the pieces together.

Can you fill me on some of these players? Daseng and Eshai?

Of course, I'm so used to everyone knowing. Daseng is the leader of the group of cultists who came under Malicant's sway and tried to spread his taint. He's also Zanru's -- the former head of the Metalworker family -- her ex-husband.

Emperor Eshai was the ruler who intially brought the Foreigners, both this batch and the ones three hundred years ago, to Keeliai. She's also responsible for bringing the kedan to this world -- we're not from here, you see. We were... well, I suppose the kedan were the original Foreigners, brought to battle Malicant. But her magic damaged us, made us... muted, dull. Most didn't even know it. That was what I was trying to fix.

She died several years ago... one of the Foreigners, who is no longer here, murdered her.

[ Alright, that was a useful little history lesson, which Lucifer listened too with an intense sort of focus.

Only when she appeared to have come to a pause, did he speak up again. ]

They have a quaint little saying back home, something about paths and good intentions. [ And it sounded like this situation fit it perfectly. ]

If you'd indulge me in one more question, did you ever deliberately try to hide what you'd done or why?

Do they? I love learning about Foreigners' sayings, they're so enlightening! Even though some of them make no sense to me, there's one about spring cleaning that I just can't seem to make line up with a practical application, cleaning should really be done year round, it's so much healthier -- I think of these things, you know, being a Healer and such -- and then another one in the same vein (see! I made a pun just then, because veins) about being clean and deities, so that's even more confusing.

Hmm, from time to time! You don't always give the patient the worst prognosis, after all.

[ That was a hell of a mouthful. As for Spring cleaning, Lucifer thought he'd heard Maze muttering something about it in reference to getting rid of certain waitstaff that weren't up to her standards. But as he tended to leave those details to Maze, since he rarely let it concern him, the saying went over his head.

The pun was appreciated though. But sticking to the heart of the matter for the time being. ]

Ah. [ He exclaimed at her last statement. ] Well there's the rub. Now that they've found out, it would appear that it's damaged their trust in you. At least with Vladis.

Having never needed medical treatment ... ever, I'm speaking academically here, but I believe a certain trust is necessary between physician and patient?

Never ever ever? That's quite a feat! How did you manage that, dear?

There is indeed, but it's part of a physician's responsibility to know what's best for the patient, and part of the patient's responsibility to trust the diagnosis.

Immortality. [ He answered with ease. ] Until recently at least.

Hmmm, don't know that I follow that line of reasoning and by follow I mean believe in. I've got a bit of a history in disagreeing with the whole idea of a 'plan' and unquestioning faith in said unknown 'plan'. To vulnerable to manipulation and gross misinterpretation.

Immortality can be tricky business! Both of the former Emperors were immortal, and it didn't do them entirely that much good.

So you would have done things differently?

[ Whatever his thoughts were on immortality, for the time being, Lucifer kept them to himself. ]

From my observations lying, even with good intentions, usually comes back to bite you in the arse.

I hope you don't come to regret this one.

IC INBOX | The Cherrywood Healer

Video - shyly skitters in here, hoping it's okay!

YESSS hello hi :D

He is an ass! I am a shy cinnamon bun /o\

but a very fine ass indeed ;) also SORRY, SHE TALKS. A LOT. IT'S A THING.

lbr he'd agree with you. ;) omg she's adorable

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