A burp fills the night and I take a deep breath.
I ate enough for six recruits.
The meat is delicious, the chunks I pull between my teeth are still salted.
Sitting outside the barracks on a pile of firewood I take my rata out of the semeru and begin plucking and tuning the strings.
Popper's footsteps come from behind me.
"Hey," I wave at her, stopping the notes.
"Keep going, it is nice" I nod and keep playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
"How does healing work"? I ask her.
"Augmentors usually end up being healers, it takes a lot of aura to heal someone... Do you know what aura is"? Popper asks.
I nod and she continues.
"If you get to Torin someone might teach you, but I am not even a healer I just know a few things" she shrugs.
"I can tell you that Healing is the most difficult profession next to Formation Building".
"If I teach you what I know carelessly, you could end up killing someone by accident".
