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Alright, we seem to have managed to get away. Not unscathed, though. Which is why I'm starting this conversation in the first place. Medicine and botany are skills I never really managed to pick up. It's a skill we really need, considering the injuries and whatever those dark swordsmen did to cause some of us to fall unconscious.

If anybody can help with that, right now is the time to speak up.

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Ew.

While you're out there, can you look for smokes? Or at least nicotine patches? If you find any abandoned pharmacies or anything.

[The priority-train keeps rolling. Dixon would rather have smoking cessation chewing gum than something for the open, putrifying wound on his back.]

It'll be a little difficult. I don't actually know what either of those things are.

[Primarily because tobacco wasn't anywhere close to being discovered by Europeans yet.]

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Something that looks like this, [Dixon holds up his pack of Virginia Slims from the Wawa. He's managed to keep himself to just one today, so it's still nearly full.] Or, well. You read English, right?

Most of the English don't even read English.

[Berk was actually fairly odd for its time with literacy being both common and expected.]

It's translating itself into whatever the magic language we've been speaking this entire time is, though, so I'll keep an eye out.

Yeah? What do they read, then? [A faint, confused expression.]

Thanks. I appreciate it.

Nothing. Most of 'em are illiterate. I'm guessing from the hundreds of thousands of books here that being able to read is a common thing in your time, but it's not in mine.

[Sometimes Dixon really wonders if he was born in the wrong century. He doesn't say it aloud, but he thinks he could stand to live in a time and place where reading and English weren't necessary for everything. Even having clawed and pushed his way through high school, it's still a trial to do paperwork, sort things on a page, put words in order and recognize when they're not.]

Everyone's got to do it where I'm from. You can't really do anything if you can't. Which is a shame, since plenty of folks got plenty of skills that have nothing to do with reading.

I won't argue with that. It's a good skill to have, but I'm not going to look down on anybody who can't.

We'll probably run into some talking bears or gnomes or something who can't, way things are going out here. So we better not look down on them too hard.

I don't know. It's going to be a little hard to not look down on gnomes.

[Dixon snickers.] Point. Since they're short.

[Because, you know, the joke needed to be explained.]

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