Utrecht Visscher | Network 002

[frontier_doktor]

[Audio]

Guten Morgen! [Which he says no matter what time of day it is.] I've realized recently all the unique diseases and ailments that come with living here, and I've been wanting to augment the clinic's database. I offered that I would do some research into diseases native to other universes and I was wondering which ones I should be most alert for. As well as different intoxicating substances. This doesn't necessarily have to include alcohol, but many recreational drugs and they can vary greatly between species.

Also is anyone here experienced with gene therapy? Genetic mapping?

[He wouldn't know the clinical way to put magical elements so he'll leave Braska to that.]

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[endsorrow]

Hmmmm. I don't believe there are any illnesses on Spira that would be difficult to treat should they crop up here. I looked into what I might prepare for with my herbs and magic shortly after my arrival, and I managed to find most of the sicknesses I am familiar with healing, though by different names, in some cases.

"Genes," though... I am utterly unfamiliar with.

[frontier_doktor]

"Genes" are pretty interesting. Imagine that the moment that your parents were together [no one wants to imagine their parents, Visscher] a map was made of the person that would be, or a list of instructions to make them. It's made of half of each parent. So every child that you would have would also have half of your map. Sometimes they don't combine well and things go wrong, children are sick. Or there are certain materials, sicknesses one can contract later that can harm that map and change the instructions.

[endsorrow]

[Braska listens intently, his hands pressed flat together with the tips of his fingers resting under his nose and his thumbs under his chin.]

I see... A most complex kind of magic.

Perhaps this explains my daughter's eye colors...

[A beat. And then he realizes what he just said.] Ah... That is to say, I never thought much of this before. The whys of it all.

[frontier_doktor]

That is usually what explains eye colors- at least where I'm from, anyway. And as it would be here.

[He doesn't know how different Braska's universe is but considering everyone is changed to follow the rules of this one.]

[endsorrow]

[Braska debates with himself briefly, but in the end, decides... it should be fine.]

My daughter, one of her eyes is green, like her mother's, and the other is blue, like mine. I'd never seen eyes like hers before. [But he smiles. He's very proud, and it's very obvious.] I always thought that it was suiting, but never questioned it beyond that.

[frontier_doktor]

Both of my parents were blonde, but I had red-haired grandparents. Genetics keeps older bits from older ancestors and later they can come back together again if two parents happened to have similar hidden traits. So my sister and I were red-headed.

[endsorrow]

This is fascinating. And, in many ways, heartening. We are all connected to our ancestors... Carrying pieces of them with us wherever we go.