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[twoeyesonthesky]

The door from Milliways opens onto a stairwell in Alnwick Castle. "I never did manage to get the door to the Bar to open on purpose, except when we had a lot of people here who had to go back," he says apologetically. "Everyone all right? The infirmary's two levels down."

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[dust_to_order]

"Insh'allah," Sooraya replies to his first remark, matter of factly, as she follows him through the door. "It'll happen as it needs to."

[twoeyesonthesky]

Quinn nods. "It hasn't usually kept anyone here for very long who doesn't belong in this world," he says. "But I'm grateful anyway. Let's get you introduced to Helen, our medic. She used to be head of Paediatric Infectious Disease at Alder Hey Hospital, before."

[dust_to_order]

"Gladly. Lead the way, sir," and no, she's not being facetious.

She's been studying/refreshing her knowledge of treatments for burn victims since she first made the offer, but Sooraya's not arrogant enough to ever think that makes her a substitute for an MD.

[twoeyesonthesky]

"Right this way," Quinn says. "Whatever you can do, any of you, it'll be a step up. Helen's got a few kids she's been teaching, but we've never had much in the way of medical texts to work from, and our only other medical type's a dentist. Gavin's not good with burns."

Helen, it happens, is currently going over the store of supplies and looking very much as if she wants to scream. She's an older woman, probably in her fifties but looking in her sixties thanks to circumstances unavoidable. As Quinn and the others approach, she looks up. "I really hope you've got some- who're these, then?"

[sime_channel]

"Just fine." Suzi says with a nod, face firm (although not ever hard), "Oh..ohhh...Gens." It's a beautiful thing, to her Sime senses; the nager of Established Gens zlinned distantly around the castle.

[twoeyesonthesky]

"Hmm?" says Quinn, glancing in Suzi's direction. "Didn't quite catch that."

[sime_channel]

"Gens." Suzi says again, a little bit louder, "I don't know how recently Established, or exactly how many, but there are Gens here. Remind me to tell you how to identify Changeover before I leave."

[twoeyesonthesky]

"Huh. Bit ahead of schedule, isn't it?" says Quinn, but he's not really objecting. "All right, I can do that..."