fried: DNT (ninety-eight)

[personal profile] fried 2025-02-17 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ he does relax just a little at this. mostly because he guessed right and didn't have to look like an idiot. ]

... My bandages should be fine, but thank you. [ a beat. ] The soup smells good.

[ he sounds like he's in wonder and it's because he is. seven thousand people have brought him bland foods that he politely took one bite of and then put aside. ]
fried: (sixty-nine)

[personal profile] fried 2025-02-17 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ HONESTLY he'll take this, it's better than talking about his feelings.

he thinks about how the other healers back home would have a fucking heart attack if they saw him eating spicy stuff like this right after getting stabbed, and promptly forgets about them. fuck it!!

he's absolutely going to demolish this soup like it isn't spicy at all, you're right he's in the swamp for radioactive. you get to see his ears do that little wiggly thing kittens do when they're eating, congrats. ]
fried: (twelve)

[personal profile] fried 2025-02-18 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ a little shake of his head. ]

No. You should eat as well. [ he's more comfortable this way, anyway. ] I'd like that, though. I should pass on these techniques somewhere.
fried: (fifty-nine)

[personal profile] fried 2025-02-18 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's a nice break. so many people have asked him - and all he can tell him is no, i'm fine. because he is, really, in the sense that he is neutral. it's hard to feel anything when you've spent most of the last fifty years of life being mostly numb.

this is easier. ]


An old master of the Ranzhi tradition. It was an offshoot of the Alchemy Commission, teaching that food is medicine. We use the joy of food to alleviate pain. I've been studying it since I was young.
fried: (seventy-three)

[personal profile] fried 2025-02-20 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
They would have welcomed him, I'm sure.

[ he thinks about it, and then: ]

It spoke to me more than the others. Medicine is a neutral thing. It helps, but people dislike taking it. I like the idea of combining good health and joy.