[She looked numbly at the feed. Her private message had bounced back and the name was missing. After so long, so many gone, she'd begun to think he would always be here, to the end. Seeing him gone was a sock to the gut, but she hit the feed with a stern, stubborn look in her eyes.]No time like the present. Merlin's gone, and we're the less for it, but there's work to do and he wouldn't want this going to crap just because he disappeared.
[The image isn't of the inside of Pinch of Sage for once. Instead, it looks like Samantha is standing in a greenhouse. She doesn't take people back to the greenhouse where herbs are grown for the shop very often. plants hang from pots all around her head and in long rows. Some are familiar to those who know earth plants, or the basic varieties found in Asgard, but others in the back are more exotic. She's standing next to a group of firebloom flowers, ones people who have met with the elves might have seen before.]For those of you that have signed up with the Medic Corps, let's get started with training. Best way I can think of to remember him. I'm a terrible organizer, so one of you can get to rallying the troops, please gods get on that.
[For a second, she sounded exhausted.] Training in powers like Healing and Damage Drain is good, and any of you from Sigyn and Heimdall with us should keep it up, but you've only got so much juice.
[She held up a small yellow vial.] And potions like these can only help so much. If you overuse them or take too much power from other Heimdalls and Freyas like me, you can still end up exhausted.
Magic's a tool, and if you overuse a tool, you break it or you aren't ready when you don't have it. I'll be holding classes on poultice making, first aid and paramedics starting tomorrow. Anyone who wants lessons on how to make the curatives that some of us have been making, let me know. You don't need to be in the Medic Corps, but I'd prefer it if folks in the Corps get some lessons on the basics. The more tools, the better.
Anyone who already has the skills... I could probably use the help in training the folks who are using more powers than training. The more the merrier.
Private to EridanI'm re-acquiring an investment from an old friend of ours. We need a third. I suggest Desmond, but I want your input first.