[Puzzle 008]

[hisapprentice]

[When the journal recording comes on, there's a bit of static. It's either from the dunking it took in some serious floodwater, or just Luke's weird thick breathing.]

So...I-I know everybody's busy with all this [unseen, one hand gestures to the village around him, then covers his mouth while he sneezes] and I'm gonna help, I promise.

I just need somewhere to go. ...Aah, to stay, I suppose I mean. My room got really wrecked and it's not going back to the way it was. [Another sneeze, and a few coughs. Luke is stubbornly ignoring all these signs of "what an awful time to come down with something" because...in his dizzy head it might just be what a gentleman does. If necessary.]

It wouldn't be forever... [Sniff. He might like it to be, though, depending on who you are. Living alone is lonely.] Just for a little while, if it's all right.

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[hisapprentice]

[That shouldn't raise his internal alarms as much as it is! But that sounds an awful lot like she doesn't actually know how to do such things and to be bare-bones honest neither does Luke. He doesn't feel up to being the object of practice.]

A-A good experience?

[aero_dienamic]

Well yes. I would like children of my own some day. And learning how to care for a sick child now would be, well, perfect for when the time finally comes.

[[Of course the way she sets it sets off alarms! She's... not human, and she really doesn't know. It's a recipe for a perfectly adorable disaster!]]

[hisapprentice]

[Adorable to her. Scary to the boy.]

I think I'll be all right...