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[1stwitness]

Ichabod has never been quite comfortable at parties, though he puts on a good show of it and a better one when Katrina is there. And on this occasion, she's abandoned him to talk to a woman on the other side of the room, so he's in the corner, looking just a little out of place.

Comments

[an_outlander]

"Physician," she corrects him.

Physician's get respect.

Healers, less so.

Not fair, but there it is.

"And of course I do," she says straight-faced.

"Don't drink."

[1stwitness]

Ichabod laughs, honest and greatly amused.

"Then you put no stock in cures after the event?"

[an_outlander]

She actually shudders. "Some vile man tried to convince me of the healing powers of a mixture of mercury and raw eggs. Whether it helps a hangover, I admit, I can't say. I'll take the hangover before heavy metal poisoning."

[1stwitness]

"Mercury?" He shakes his head. "That man will hang if he keeps advising that kind of cure."

[an_outlander]

"Oh, no. He's the most popular physician in the colony. Whereas I," and she bats her eyes over-innocently, "am a silly woman who'd be much better off for reading St. Paul's writings a time or two more. Or ten."

Her smile is wicked now.

"He nearly broke his back trying to fix a slipped disk. His wife ordered him to stay in bed and do as I told him."

[1stwitness]

"St Paul might have benefited from listening to sensible women a little more. Does your physician at least listen to his own wife?"

[an_outlander]

"Haven't you heard? 'Physician, heal thyself,'" she says lightly.

It's hard for someone to poison you that way, and life has made her the tiniest bit wary.

[1stwitness]

Ichabod nods. "As you have the skill, why not? At worst, you can direct others in what to do."

OOC Note

[an_outlander]

Haven't forgotten you! I'm re-reading the book that takes place in this time period--technically books, but I'm skimming for relevant sections--before tagging again.

Re: OOC Note

[1stwitness]

Noted! No rush. :)