[There is a practiced and confident rhythm to her work as she begins taking care of that wound of his in earnest. It’s simple work for a simple clean cut, but she’s done this dozens and dozens of times before. It almost feels odd, doing something like this along a calm and quiet street in the city and not some battlefield. Whatever’s on his mind, whatever had gotten him into that fight—she leaves the topic alone for now while she works.
His comment breaks the quiet, though, and it draws a huff from her that’s not quite a laugh.]
Yeah, I get that a lot.
[Especially early on, but it never really stopped. Didn’t help that she often got scolded for wading right into the middle of a battle to bash some skulls when deployed as a medic… Her reputation back at Rhodes Island was earned from more than just her lack of bedside manner.]
It’s something I started getting into after I’d left home.
[Her tone is simple, conversational; she’s never been shy about mentioning her past, but most of the time it’s never really felt worth getting too into. But, well, Cassian’s had himself a pretty unique peek at what that’d been like, so maybe it makes sense.]
As much as I enjoy throwing down—and I enjoy it a lot— [she takes her eyes off her work for a moment to catch his gaze, grinning a very self-aware grin,] doing something like this? Helping people? Feels even better.
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His comment breaks the quiet, though, and it draws a huff from her that’s not quite a laugh.]
Yeah, I get that a lot.
[Especially early on, but it never really stopped. Didn’t help that she often got scolded for wading right into the middle of a battle to bash some skulls when deployed as a medic… Her reputation back at Rhodes Island was earned from more than just her lack of bedside manner.]
It’s something I started getting into after I’d left home.
[Her tone is simple, conversational; she’s never been shy about mentioning her past, but most of the time it’s never really felt worth getting too into. But, well, Cassian’s had himself a pretty unique peek at what that’d been like, so maybe it makes sense.]
As much as I enjoy throwing down—and I enjoy it a lot— [she takes her eyes off her work for a moment to catch his gaze, grinning a very self-aware grin,] doing something like this? Helping people? Feels even better.