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[doctorize]

Hello everyone, my name is Dr. Daniel Dickens. (You're welcome to call me "Danny" though, if you'd like!)

I wanted to announce that starting this month, I will be working with the Second Nature Clinic as it's resident psychiatrist. For those who don't know what that means, my specialty is in providing psychological counseling and therapy for anyone struggling here mentally or emotionally. Even if you do not need therapy and would simply like a confidential listening ear with someone here, I'm happy to help.

I also have some experience in other fields of medical expertise, so if you have any questions about that, I'll do my best to answer and see if there's something else I can help you with here. Aside from your basic first aid, surgery, and the like, I even have some skill in optometry--but, I'm sure you are all taking good care of your eyes here, so that will hopefully not be necessary.

Though, ah... despite advertising myself now, perhaps it might be best to wait until a few days from now to schedule a visit, on account of certain factors at the moment.

[Moon cycles suck as an Iris and he still hates it.]

Which reminds me... I apologize if this is a question that has already been asked before, but in regards to when some cycles here suddenly gives a person wings... can you actually fly with them, or are they merely for decoration, so to speak? I'm assuming the latter, given how difficult it may be depending on size to use them to support oneself in the air, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

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[doctorize]

... Don't worry, I'll help you with moving it.

[It shouldn't be too much trouble if both of them work together to move it, each going by one end to lift it up.]

[hagrides]

Fortunate that I still have opposable thumbs for this task.

[picking things up with tentacles... is hard]

[doctorize]

Indeed.

[But once the couch has been moved out of the way, along with a coffee table, there should be plenty of room now, as Danny then turns his attention to Grimm.]

Alright then... what tips would you suggest giving us first here?

[hagrides]

Simple stretches. These are muscles you are unaccostumed to having, let alone manipulating in a specific manner. Rather than any attempt at flight, the first step should be to become comfortable moving your wings.

[doctorize]

Right... let's see...

[Danny... tries to see if he can manipulate them both into moving up and down a bit at the same time, and well, it's out of sync with one wing raising a little higher while the other just sort of flaps back and forth in the same spot.]

[hagrides]

[An admirable first attempt nonetheless.]

Attempt to perform the same motion with both wings. Do not worry yet about a consistent rhythm, so long as you are not lopsided.

[doctorize]

[Okay, this time he tries to get both wings to move up or down, and after a moment, he can kind of get the left wing to do what he wants it to do, more or less. Getting both to move properly at the same time however seems to be a bit of a challenge for him as his right wing seems to have the most trouble here for the time being.]

[hagrides]

Your right wing. Might I have a closer look?

[As far as he knows, there's nothing preventing a moonblessing's new features from arriving already injured.]

[doctorize]

Oh, go ahead.

[Grimm will find that there doesn't seem to be anything inherently wrong with it... though, it is on the same side of his body as his glass eye, so maybe the problem here is that Danny can't really turn his head far enough to look at that wing properly to watch and figure out how to get it to move in sync with the other.]

[hagrides]

[Grimm looks the wing over carefully, lightly touching it in places to feel for any scar tissue. He's more familiar with insect wings than bird ones, but he still feels confident declaring:]

No problems with the wing itself. Perhaps you might use a mirror to get a better look at it - ah, if you have any unbroken mirrors.

[doctorize]

Um... there should be one in a drawer somewhere? I don't remember which one, though.

[Danny what the fuck why haven't you replaced your other mirrors yet.]

[hagrides]

I assume you would prefer me not to root through your things looking for it.

[That'd be rude, even if Danny really should have replaced his mirrors by now...]

[doctorize]

I'm sure I can find it, just give me a moment.

[Danny turns away and leaves the room momentarily, and there is the audible noise of drawers being pulled open in his bathroom, and then he walks down the hall to the bedroom and checks there... before he then comes back to the kitchen.]

Okay, hang on, I think it's... right, maybe it's with the first aid kit?

[Sure enough, he opens a drawer and takes out a first aid kit, and... yep, there it is. Along with some spare glass eyes now that he's remembered that this is where he has one, for his morning routine of when he checks to make sure that his glass eye is properly aligned or if it needs to be switched with a different one.]

Will this work?

[He holds out the mirror for Grimm to examine: it's a small hand-size mirror, but at least it's not broken like his other ones were??]

[hagrides]

[What, you didn't want Grimm to root around and find a bunch of glass eyes while looking for your mirror? Shock.]

I believe so. Can you use that to get a better view of your wing?

[doctorize]

[To be fair, Danny still hasn't addressed the glass elephant in the room and as far as he can tell, Grimm hasn't noticed it yet either.]

I think so?

[Danny tilts the mirror above his head a bit, trying to get a good look at his wings behind him. They flap a bit, still out of sync, but at least he can see both of them at this awkward angle.]

... Yeah, I believe this works, at least for now until I get a bigger mirror.

[and hopefully he doesn't break that one too]

[hagrides]

Excellent. Forgive me, I am uncertain how reduced your field of vision is.

[yeah about that not having noticed thing]

[doctorize]

... Oh, so you have noticed that.

[Ha ha... ha...]

It's only my left eye that works. My right eye is a fake one made of glass.

[Because nobody, least of all Danny, wants to look at an empty eye socket.]

[hagrides]

I have, but there was no reason to bring it up before it was relevant.

[doctorize]

Then you'd be one of the few that's thought that: usually it's the first thing people want to say something about once they've noticed it.

[And unfortunately, Danny is paranoid enough to wonder when exactly Grimm noticed it, and if he has his own private opinion of disgust towards it, even despite having said he was fine with Danny's other hangups during... that first moon cycle that he is definitely not going to bring up right now.]

[hagrides]

Why should I comment and cause you discomfort? You are beautiful as you are.

[it's Danny's favorite word again.]

[doctorize]

[HEY CAN YOU NOT--Danny ducks his head at that, making his expression unreadable aside from what seems to be embarrassment at the word. Danny's wings on the other hand have gone rather still, both of them frozen in the spot they had been previously hanging and flapping about momentarily.]

Ha ha, ah... that's very flattering of you to say...

[hagrides]

[Embarrassment? Seems like an embarrassed/shocked reaction, even though Grimm's said this to him before...]

I do not say what I do not believe for mere flattery.

[doctorize]

Ah, is that so?

[His fingers curl around the mirror in his hands, and for a brief instant, he wants nothing more than to break it like the other ones he did before. Maybe drive it straight into Grimm's face and forced down their throat, and then we'll see if he can be someone still called "beautiful" after that.

But instead, Danny forces his grip to ease on the mirror as he shuts the lid of the first aid kit, instead choosing to move on.]

Anyway, I guess my problem is that I'm having trouble visualizing the movement of the right wing in sync with the left? But hopefully the mirror should help with that now that I can get a better look at it, right?

[hagrides]

[He'd take the mirror to the face, if necessary. He's felt worse pains than that.]

I believe so. It is worth a try, at the very least.