Introduction to the Healing Arts: Wednesday

[secretlyuseful]

Characters: Merlin and Fortitude Students
Format: Class long so whatever you like
This log is: Open; tag Merlin or each other
Location: Fortitude classrooms
Summary: Merlin attempts to teach...
Warnings:

Merlin was terrified, he hadn't seen the King since he watched him in the tournament on Monday but he knew Arthur had been planning to watch the fights yesterday... Which meant he had heard, and he had seen, and he knew what Merlin's weapon was.

Which meant he knew Merlin's secret, which meant that Merlin was as good as dead. Merlin was terrified and yet he was still supposed to be teaching because apparently even having certain death looming over your head didn't get you out of things here.

Merlin had no idea how to teach, of course his mentor had taught him but that had been by doing... Merlin had accompanied him and watched him and help him. He had no idea what to do, how he was supposed to teach people... He looked around the room he had been assigned to in confusion, he had never seen anything like it before.

He ate a flower, trying to take his mind off things. When the students came in he gave a nervous smile, "Hello..." He began. "So I've been told I am to teach you the healing arts, which... I don't really know much about and I don't actually remember my name but how about... what are your names? And I guess... Do you know anything about this... About herbs and healing?"

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[pencilpremonition]

She sighed softly, looking up at him with a rather...vulnerable expression. "I just don't like thinking about home. It was awful, I wish I could stay here...but I want my brother to be here if I do that."

[secretlyuseful]

"Oh..." Merlin looked sad, he didn't like this place because he was away from... all the people whose names he couldn't remember apart from the king who was probably going to kill him once he found him... He couldn't imagine how bad her life must have been to like it here better. Maybe she had grown up in a war, or as a slave, or; he remembered her comment about not being able to go to a physician, maybe she was a magical creature.

"I'm sorry for what you had to go through."

[pencilpremonition]

She sighed softly, pulling her bag into her arms and wrapping her arms protectively around it. "It's...it's fine... I mean... It's not like it would've killed me. It just...sucked..."

[secretlyuseful]

Merlin nodded, feeling awkward. He wanted to help her but there was nothing to help her from. He didn't think so...

"Are things alright for you... here I mean? You are not hurt? I am not as good as my mentor, but I worked as his assistant these last four years so perhaps I could help you."

[pencilpremonition]

She sighed, shaking her head. "They've all healed. Unless you can magic away scars," she said, slowly rolling up her sleeve to show the years' worth of burn scars on her arm.

[secretlyuseful]

At the words and the scars Merlin paled and looked away. Not because the scars were particularly horrid, though he felt sorry for her for having them; he couldn't imagine what had caused them but he could see she had been burned repeatedly.

He could have maybe done something, if his powers hadn't been taken, if he had his magic book with him- or at least outside of his chest...

He turned to put away the herbs, speaking in a choked voice. "Magic is illegal, Becca."

He wasn't sure what the point quite was of keeping his secret now that Arthur had discovered it... But habit he supposed.

[pencilpremonition]

She stopped and gave him an odd look, frowning softly as she watched the way he acted. "Maybe where you're from. Not here, and not in most places people around here are from."

[secretlyuseful]

"No here they just steal it, or seal it." It was only illegal in Camelot so he wasn't surprised there were other places where it wasn't.

[pencilpremonition]

She sighed softly, running her fingers over the damaged skin of her arm. "That's awful... I wish there were a way to get your magic back..."

[secretlyuseful]

"I didn't say I had magic."

He had to be more careful, alright so Arthur knew and everyone would probably know once he caught up to Merlin and killed him. But old habits ran strong. "I just meant, I haven't seen any magic here, not like Camelot where it seems like every other day some magical beast or sorcerer is trying to kill the king. It's almost relaxing." a nervous smile.

[pencilpremonition]

"Uh-huh," she said, unconvinced. Still, she couldn't be sure he was lying, either, so it wasn't worth it to fight him over it. "I guess a vacation is nice."

[secretlyuseful]

"Vacation?" He frowned, turning to pack away more herbs. "I'm afraid I don't know that word."

[pencilpremonition]

"Time away from work, usually going to a different place. Usually it's more fun, like the beach, but oh well."

[secretlyuseful]

Time away from work... He blinked at her in amazement, wherever she came from it sounded interesting. "Here could be fun, you said you liked it better than home so you could make sure it was fun."

[pencilpremonition]

She laughed weakly, hanging her head. "It's a question of what's worse, that's all."

[secretlyuseful]

Merlin didn't think he had ever met a more negative person in his life. He looked at her sadly, lost for a way to help. "I am sorry, are you sure there is nothing I can do?"

[pencilpremonition]

Becca sighed sadly, shaking her head. "Unless you can make the school bring my brother here, there's nothing anyone can do."

[secretlyuseful]

"Your brother?" She had a brother, who was potentially in a situation like the one she had left, no wonder she was so upset. "This might sound stupid, I am new after all but have you tried asking?"

[pencilpremonition]

"Do you think they'd even listen?" she asked quietly.

[secretlyuseful]

"I don't know, I don't even know who you would ask, I've only been here a few days."

Probably not though, reasonable people didn't tend to kidnap others as a rule.

[pencilpremonition]

"I don't even know his name," she sighed. Becca didn't seem to really want help, rather she was more interested in whining.

[secretlyuseful]

Names... "They really like taking names away don't they, I can't remember the names of... most the people I know, I can't even remember my own name."

Really, as well as being hurtful not to know the names of your friends it was just impractical.

[pencilpremonition]

"It's an easy way to fuck us over."

[secretlyuseful]

Merlin blinked a few times, people here spoke strangely. "I'm sorry I don't understand what you just said."

[pencilpremonition]

"Lemme guess, you don't know the word 'fuck', right?" she asked with a devilish smile.