She looks visibly relieved. Didn't give him the weird eldritch ecosystem virus! Yay. Still gonna die if they don't find a way out of this though.
"You'll have to tell me about that when we get out of this." Hahah. That's just normal conversation, and not at all intense curiosity about your genetics. She takes the first book from the pile and hits the index with practice born of long hours in libraries, looking up obscure species. "I haven't been formally trained in...Magic...either, but evidently it's a coherent science here. Which means people have cataloged it, and somewhere in the cataloging is our answer." Or at least she hopes. One thing her education has taught her if that if an answer is eluding you, you probably weren't reading enough.
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"You'll have to tell me about that when we get out of this." Hahah. That's just normal conversation, and not at all intense curiosity about your genetics. She takes the first book from the pile and hits the index with practice born of long hours in libraries, looking up obscure species. "I haven't been formally trained in...Magic...either, but evidently it's a coherent science here. Which means people have cataloged it, and somewhere in the cataloging is our answer." Or at least she hopes. One thing her education has taught her if that if an answer is eluding you, you probably weren't reading enough.