OPEN: New Beginnings In Stranger Places

[promnibusanctis]

Who: Dr. Helen Magnus and [You]
When:  Day 92
Where: Roaming around, a little lost 
What: Arrival, getting her bearings, etc. etc.

Adventure was something Helen Magnus never shied from and exploring the vastness of the underground Sanctuary, far beyond those walls was something she couldn't deny herself.  So it was that she found herself here, under contract to the Ringmaster with her eyes wide with wonder at it all.  The lights and colours, the excitement, the darker elements shining through here and there.  It was as familiar as it was alien and she drank it in with an eagerness she had long felt lacking.  It stirred her as she moved through tents, passed people much like her who had joined perhaps years before her.  A bright flash of a tail there, wings, glowing skin, all of these people becoming Abnormals or were in the beginning.  The sheer fascination would have been enough, really.

 

"Excuse me?" she asked, reaching out to catch the attention of one of the people she had fallen into step with, "I seem to have found myself a bit lost.  I was looking for the medical tent and I seem to have completely gotten myself turned around.  If you could point me in the right direction, I'd be most grateful."

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[zebrarhyme_everytime]

"Consistency is the first tell," Zecora said, giving the cauldron a stir to demonstrate just how thick the first of the two healing tonics was. It almost looked uncomfortable to drink, though in practice it was just short of being so.
"After that, there's smell."

That one was not subtle, so Zecora didn't think she quite needed to elaborate.

[promnibusanctis]

Helen nodded. Good, now she knew what to look for, just in case a batch had been sitting too long somewhere. Not that it would ever happen under her watch, though she would, of course, figure out how to keep track of the days and label accordingly.

Actually...

"Do you have a labelling system in place to tell when batches were brewed? Or do you simply prepare batches as needed?" She was asking many questions but in all fairness, they were questions any physician would ask when it came to medicinal preparation storage - especially since this medicine was unknown to her.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

"That system only exists in my head," Zecora replied without any shame. She was used to working alone, be it in her Everfree home or here in the carnival. She'd never needed a system. But hopefully Helen would stick around a little longer than some of her other nurses...
"We can start a new one instead."

[promnibusanctis]

"It might be preferable, especially if someone else were to take up an assistant's position. I can help with that. I'm quite thorough," Helen said with a soft nod.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

"The help of others is rare,
So if you wish to, that's fair." Helen needed it more than Zecora did, so Zecora would be happy to sign on to whatever system she devised.

[promnibusanctis]

"Quite so. It should help in case you do gain another staff member," Helen said, nodding.

[zebrarhyme_everytime]

Helen couldn't quite appreciate the depths of Zecora's laugh, because she hadn't been around for the various crises and disasters she'd weathered alone. Having just one staff member represented an enormous relief to her.

She loved her job, but she could get so very tired sometimes, the worst times.

"As a matter of course
That's cart before the horse."