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[Today, Becca is Doing Things. She's out being a player, approaching any unattached weapons to offer to be their player. She's going to her classes. Or possibly she's just sitting around somewhere drawing in her notebook with an air of 'come talk to me' about her. Or perhaps you have a better idea for how to get her talking to your character. Just come bother her.]

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[Merlin was returning from the library, he had been researching different forms of healing since it had become obvious that the healing he knew was considered old fashioned to most of his students.

He saw one of his students on his way back and walked over.] Good morning Becca.

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Hey. Whatcha got there?

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Just some books... I wanted to learn more about healing if I am supposed to teach it. [He smiles at her again, perhaps teachers weren't supposed to admit to their students they didn't know what they were doing, but Merlin was new at this.]

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Yeah, you're kind of out of date. This school is ridiculous. Gotta manage though, right?

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Completely ridiculous, as if making us forget important things wasn't enough...

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Ugh, I know. Or making me a player. What am I gonna do? Faint on my opponents? Great strategy, seriously.

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Can you not fight Becca?

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Nooot really, no.

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Oh... I guess not everyone can fight. Women don't really fight where I come from. Well some of them do...

Maybe you should learn!

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I still faint, though.

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Why? Are you ill?

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Dunno. I just always faint, and I think there's a missing memory about why. But...asking if I'm ill doesn't give me headaches, so maybe that's not it.

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Oh... Do you faint outside battle at all?

[Old fashioned she might think his medicine is but he has still been trained by that physician whose name he can't remember]

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If I get my heart going too fast, like if I run around or if I get spooked.

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So maybe your heart is sick? [Merlin frowned because sicknesses of the heart were serious, it could mean she was really ill.]

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Maybe? I dunno.

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Here [He came a little closer] Erm... I can listen to it, see if it's strange... only if you want...

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Uhm...I guess? If it might help....

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[He looked around and saw a wide window ledge.] Here lie down.

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[She obediently does so, though this is weird.]

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Wait... Are you a weapon? [Because the last thing he wants to do is give her a headache.]

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No, a player.

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Me too. [He bends down to rest his ear against her chest.] Breathe normally

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[She tries to stay calm, but she's nervous and embarrassed, and her heart rate goes up a bit along with that. It doesn't sound like the right rhythm.]

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Hmm [Well it didn't sound normal... Merlin wished... the person whose name he couldn't remember... was here.] Take a breath and count to ten before breathing out.