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“Good work. Not sure if I’d have been any help if I was there, rather than elbow deep in a corpse.” He says this rather gleefully. “How are you r classes going, by the way?”

Shrug. "Okay. The fire classes are pretty cool."

“Yeah? Do you need to take any medical pre-reqs? Like First Aid? I could help with that.”

"Oh, yeah - in the spring I've got some stuff. Probably gonna get EMT certified, too."

“Talk to Vali, maybe. Get some feedback on good canteips to help. Winter, Heatherbalm maybe… not even for people. like, if a structural beam is about to collapse? “

She nods. "I need to work harder on Primal. Oakenshield, right?"

“Mm. Right. But Oak burns…”

"We were learning about Smokejumpers the other day - they skydive into forest fires!"

“Wicked! If you have a death wish…”

A grin.

"Well, I mean, I'm no Fiona..."

A huff, amused. “Siv ain’t bad, but on a whole, I’ll leave rather than take those.”

“How is she doing? I’ve been giving her a wide berth. There was this cool study on conjoined fetuses in multiple births I tried to share with her, but she got all huffy.”

"Most Fiona can be.. um... a lot."

"She's freaking out a bit, but Jonas is steadier? They're both fussing over Piper."

"I'm just tryin' to get their present done in time."

He pales a bit.. hard to tell on his already greyish pallor. “Presents… right…”

"I'm a relative."

"Uh... some stripe of cousin?"