Welcome to the Arztenritter

[baldrshand]

Who: Ethlyn + anyone interested in healing + anyone else
Where: A clinic near the edge of town
What: Arztenritter healing brigade training! Feel free to put up your own toplevels too.
Warnings: None


The Willow Clinic wasn't the one nearest the center of town in Aldrip--more towards the fields, and crucially, near a horse paddock as well. It was where Ethlyn had found employment as one of the clinic's standing healers and where she'd first proposed the idea of what she now liked to call the Arztenritter--"doctor-knight" in old Jugdrali--who could ride out all over town and beyond it in case of emergency medical needs.

After starting on the idea with people she already knew and putting up flyers around town for a general interest-and-training day, Ethlyn made her way to the clinic bright and early in the morning to get things set up for a day of medical and horsemanship training combined.

Comments

[oracledriven]

[He gets the feeling she's the type of person you can learn a lot from, if you're just paying attention...so he does. He notes the gentleness of her hand, tries hard to mimic it. That's not something that comes naturally to him -- when you come from a place like his settlement, there's not really a lot of use for gentleness.

He's so occupied with trying to absorb all of this information --verbal and by example-- that he almost misses her question.]

It's-- Noel. Noel Kreiss. What about you? And...no. No horses where I'm from. Not a whole lot of animals in general.

[snowslip]

Oh...

[ Not a lot of animals... That's so sad, at least to an animal lover like Marianne. She can't imagine what life would have been like if she hadn't had the birds and squirrels for company during her years of isolation, if her horse Dorte hadn't been there for her during hard times. Even in Aldrip, her bonds with the animals she's met were a constant that's helped her through the uncertainty of life in a new world.

Absently, she moves her hand from the horse's shoulder to neck, giving the happy mare a thorough petting. ]

Is there a reason for that?

[oracledriven]

[Noel watches her reaction. She seems almost...sad about that, but-- then again, maybe he shouldn't be so surprised. It may not have been common in his time, but in other places, he knows that people bonded with animals pretty easily. It...feels like something people should do naturally. It's just his world that was messed up.]

Just... [He idly rubs the horse's neck.] It was mostly monsters, in my world. [A faint grin.] None of them were nearly as friendly as this guy.