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[tiancai_doctor]

I assume that announcement from the...was that a dormouse? I assume that was to announce an event. It didn't sound very good

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[watchful_knight]

I didn't knwo there was an infirmary.

[tiancai_doctor]

I don't believe there was one before now.

[watchful_knight]

Are you the only doctor there?

[tiancai_doctor]

I believe so. My name is Simon Tam.

[watchful_knight]

...

[Frowning. That strange Tam name...]

Do you have a sister?

[tiancai_doctor]

Y-yes. River. I was told she was here some time ago. Did you know her?

[watchful_knight]

Not very well. She left shortly after I arrived.

[tiancai_doctor]

I see. That's a shame. River's really very... [He pauses, unable to think of a good word to describe her.] She's quite extraordinary.

[watchful_knight]

Yes, she seemed to be unusual.

[Unusual to be burned as a witch in most parts of his known world, but he won't mention that.]

I think she missed you.

[tiancai_doctor]

That's one word for it.

I miss her, too. I always do when she's away.

[watchful_knight]

You're very close?

[tiancai_doctor]

Yes. We don't have much except each other.

I mean, there's the rest of the crew, and the ship, but...from our lives before, she's really all I have.

[watchful_knight]

She's a sailor?

[Other worlds are different, and women have all kinds of jobs there... But that they are allowed on ships is surprising.]

[tiancai_doctor]

[He laughs just a little, but not at Lithuania so much as at the idea of his sister as a sailor.] No. It's a different kind of ship.

[watchful_knight]

A gummiship?

[tiancai_doctor]

I honestly have no idea what that is.

She's a transport ship. A firefly.