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[Ginko is always out and about. During the Zompania draft, he was no fighter - but he was doing his best to help the refugee and injured soldiers that were residing in the city proper. Unfortunately, his medical expertise is limited; there wasn't a great deal he could do, other than to assist more experienced doctors where he could.

He has taken to the forest quite a bit, lately. He's explored around the area, looking at its features and distinctions. It's entirely possible that someone could find him crouched or seated next to a foreign plant, inspecting it curiously, or treading down a path through the forest. He's intrigued by the small "newbie huts" that were constructed, as well as evidence of the fighters training in the forest. This is far and above anything he'd see back home.]

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[He'll be trying out this feature. He has no idea how it works, but hey, there's instructions and enough detail for him to figure it out.]

Assuming this works... I've been reading the guides to this place. I'm interested in speaking with the spirits, and by extension, those of you who are talking to them regularly.

It'd be important for me to find a way to be of assistance in this warfare situation.

[It's important to adapt.]

Hmm... and I'm still looking for my medicine box. It's large, wooden, and meant to be worn on the back. If you find a box like that, please don't just rummage through its contents, if they are present.

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[Xzana had left the safety of her lakeside home in order to hunt. Since her return from the draft she had hidden there and tried to ignore the nightmares that plagued her since her death. Would have happily stayed deep below it's surface forever except she knew better than to eat all the fish there. She needed to let some of them grow.

A human bent over some plant was not the deer she had been hoping to find. The long limb woman probably would have left Ginko to his own devices, but there was something about the way he bent, studying the plant, that reminded her of a friend from her home world. If only Ginko's hair was dark and eyes brown instead of green. Ah, well.

Wearing a yellow halter and a light blue skirt she stands quietly behind Ginko. Watching him study the plant, not even thinking about how this might be rude. Casimir after all had once told her that he enjoyed her company when he studied so certainly this was normal. She had nothing to say, but was always amused by humans efforts to try to understand the world around them. She wonders if maybe this human would chatter on in excitement as well if some sort of discovery was made. She never understood the discovery itself, but the emotion behind it was always fun to watch.]

[Excitement is not Ginko's forte (as much as Adashino, at least), nor does Ginko get too absorbed in anything to not notice the footsteps approaching from behind. Glancing over his right shoulder to look - huh. A woman with scales on her skin.

He stands up, taking the cigarette out of his mouth and politely blowing the smoke away from her rather than in her face.]

Hello. I'm not impeding on something, am I?

No. You are not. [Xzana's voice is a bit gruff and gravely sound. The words forming in a careful and slow rate. She takes a step to get a better look at what Ginko had been studying.] For a moment you had me recall a man from my home.

[Although, now that this man was talking to her instead of looking at his plant she starting to wonder if she was being a bother.] I have impeded on you?

Not really.

[He's certainly looking her up and down, and getting an eyeful.]

Scales, though... they're not like anything I've seen.

[He's seen at least one incident that involved "scales" growing over human skin due to mushi, but definitely not anything like these natural-looking scales.]

[She stands not at all uncomfortable under Ginko's gaze. Although she's a bit surprised at his interest in her scales.] Have you no dragons, lizards, or snakes in your world? What of fish? They have scales as well.

Well, yes. But they aren't usually on human skin.

That is because I am not human. [She's really surprised she has to explain this to so many in Luceti. She can understand the large set of white wings not giving it away so much anymore due to everyone having at least one set, but scales, fangs, and claws? Usually that's still a dead giveaway at home.]

Is your world so empty of different creatures that this is a surprise?

Humans bearing animal traits tends to denote an infection by Mushi. I'm afraid you're the first human-like non-human I've ever met.

[Barring humans that have turned into mushi, or a few others that take human forms, but there's rarely an in-between in terms of animal-and-human characteristics.]

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I have not heard of Mushi before. If they infect then are they a demon that is spread through touch? [She's heard of "demons" like that in her world. Only what some would call the work of demons is nothing more than a spreading sickness.

Then again; other times it very well was a demon in her wold.]

They're not demons. They're just living things, trying to get by. They can infect a human host in many different ways... it depends on the mushi, and what it needs to survive.

Is that not what all creatures do?

It is. Which is why mushi aren't "evil" or "demonic".

[He is very adamant about explaining that every day he works, after all.]

[And if only she was better at explaining that being a demon in her world doesn't always mean evil in her mind. Well, the ones who infect others usually are looked as evil.

Although the woman shrugs. She cares very little if something she knows little about is evil or not.]

I have never seen nor heard of a mushi before. I do not believe that they are in the world that I came from.

It's possible either way. Most people can't see them.

Most? Why is it that some can see them and then others can not? [That sounds really odd to her.]

We have theories, but there's no real proof. Sometimes people can see them, sometimes they can't.

[She shrugs. Already growing bored.] I have never heard of such a creature before. Are they here in Luceti?

I've not seen one, no... that's the strangest part.

Why is that strange? Have you been to this land before and seen these creatures here?

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