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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]

[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.