Katherine Amell (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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calling_net2017-03-14 01:26 am
boundinblood) wrote in calling_net2017-03-14 01:26 am
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Video | CALL Network | un: wardenka
[The camera first focuses on Katherine's rather unimpressed and exhausted face.]
How am I supposed to understand most of this when it doesn't even cover a single thing I recognize? Blood, I know, everyone knows what it is and that it keeps us alive and losing it is very bad, but-...
[She turns the device around, and the image resolves from the blur of sudden motion as it auto-finds a stack of three medical books, ranging in target readership from roughly ages eight to twenty.]
But all of these break blood down into these...cells and things. What are these cells supposed to be? And phlegm and bile come from entirely different places and-...
...why does none of this so much as mention effects on temperament?
[The feed goes dark as the device goes face-down on the table, and judging from the sounds of it, Katherine's rested her head beside it. Her voice is muffled, in this case by her arms.]
Am I poking about in the wrong direction? Should I be looking at magic instead?
How am I supposed to understand most of this when it doesn't even cover a single thing I recognize? Blood, I know, everyone knows what it is and that it keeps us alive and losing it is very bad, but-...
[She turns the device around, and the image resolves from the blur of sudden motion as it auto-finds a stack of three medical books, ranging in target readership from roughly ages eight to twenty.]
But all of these break blood down into these...cells and things. What are these cells supposed to be? And phlegm and bile come from entirely different places and-...
...why does none of this so much as mention effects on temperament?
[The feed goes dark as the device goes face-down on the table, and judging from the sounds of it, Katherine's rested her head beside it. Her voice is muffled, in this case by her arms.]
Am I poking about in the wrong direction? Should I be looking at magic instead?
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[Katherine looks down at the troll boy in clear confusion, slightly disturbed. She really hopes "care" isn't some sort of euphemism for something horrible.]
Can't we just tell them we don't need any help?
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It is not so elementary as a mere request of removed guidance, sister Katherine. There is... an order which must be adhered to. Those of higher rank shall see you well and they shall not hurt you, per se, but, you see, it is not down to the culled to deem what is right and well of the culler's care. I have many freedoms, as I am of Highblood's kin. But even I must meet the standard check ins. Others may find themselves more restricted.
[Kankri had a lot more to say about it than him. In this moment, he wishes the other troll were here. He's not sure he's explaining this right at all.]
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You mean a caste system. With the lowest being least free because...they can't live unassisted?