Introduction to the Healing Arts: Wednesday

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

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

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"No..." He looks at her suspiciously.

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"It's... It's a really useful word. It can mean lots of different things, usually bad. Literally it means sex, but in different contexts it can mean different things, usually bad. Like, 'fucking someone over' means making their life really difficult and bad. Or if someone just says 'fuck!' all by itself, it means 'oh no'. Or you can use it as an adjective, like 'this fucking school', then it means 'this thing that I hate'."

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Merlin listened fascinated, he had never heard this word before but it did indeed seem really useful. Except he was confused, "So... you think of sex as bad and use it to describe negative things?"

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"Well...yeah," she said, as if that was blindingly obvious. "What do you think I am, a slut?"

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What? This was incredibly confusing. "A what?"

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"A slut! A whore. A girl who has sex!" She's visibly disgusted by this idea.

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Merlin blinked, "No I would never..." Wait what?

"There is a large difference between a prostitute and a woman who... has sex..." He is bright red, he shouldn't be discussing this with a young woman...

How did this conversation get to this, this never happened in Camelot...

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"Might as well be the same," Becca said with a scoff, even going so far as to roll her eyes.

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Maybe her world was just strange. "Erm... I have to go now..." He pointed at the door, "Important... herb things..."

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"Yeah yeah, see you later," she muttered, turning to leave.

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"See you later..." Merlin blinked after her, that had been strange...