BLUE FISH MINGLE

[save_the_souls]

Who: Blue Fish Crew and Visitors!
Broadcast: IF YOU WANT?
Action: SS BLUE FISH
When: After the Shuffle but before Calibrations Plot!

[Well guys it's a new month and there's been some new additions to the crew! So let's check in to see what's going on with the Blue Fish!]

[In other words: GET IN HERE ITS A MINGLE.]

Comments

[summerschild]

A maester does a lot of things, like teaching and advising, but he can also be a doctor, or a scholar. Maester Luwin called them "Knights of the Mind".

[dancingmd]

Ahh, a real Renaissance Man then.

[Beverly. Come on.]

Right. Sorry, that's a term in my world for people who are knowledgeable in all sorts of skills and subjects.

[summerschild]

Oh. I supposed maesters are a bit like... [He tries out the word.] ... Renaissance Men, then.

[Thinking about it puts a bit of a hole in his chest.]

Maester Luwin used to say that I would be good at it, but I always wanted to be a knight instead. A real knight, not a knight of the mind.

[dancingmd]

[Oh. In her world, his dreams wouldn't be derailed by his physical condition, but in a medieval world of knights and magic... She's not so sure.]

Tell me more about Knights. We don't have them where I come from, you see.

[summerschild]

They fight in battle, and follow a code of nobility. They protect their king or queen.

[dancingmd]

So you want to protect people, and your home. That sounds like a noble goal to me.

[summerschild]

I want to help my brothers. They're both away fighting. And I want to save my sisters, and bring them back home.

[Though that would require having a home, but Beverly will get that story another time. So far, only Ino knows.]

[dancingmd]

[Oh. A war, then, of some sort, it sounds like.]

I'm sorry, that your family cannot be together. You must miss them terribly.

[As much as she misses Wesley, at least it's not like this, not because of a war.]

[summerschild]

I do. It's been a very long time since we were together.

[Two years, by now. He was seven when he last saw his father and his sisters. They would nearly by women grown now.]

[dancingmd]

[She reaches across the table and lightly touches his arm, for just a moment, not entirely sure how he feels about such physical reassurances.]

I hope you find one another again.