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Hi, everyone. My name's Rebecca.

[ The video opens on a small, homey apartment, filled with plants and books. Rebecca sits at a small piano, a mug of coffee steaming by her side. She looks...tired, really. It's been a difficult few weeks.

But that's no reason not to keep trying. ]

I was just wondering...what's the state of medicine like in your world? I had thought we were on the cutting-edge back home, but with everything I've seen here, you realise just how far we have to go. Considering everything that happens to us so regularly here, it can be really easy to lose track of your health.

I'm a field medic and a chemist, so I'd never call myself a doctor, but I still wanted to extend an offer to everybody: if you need someone to patch you up or do a quick check-up, call me. If you need medicine - over-the-counter stuff, obviously, not anything serious - then I'll run it over or get someone to deliver it to you. Just... [ She gives a weak smile. ] I want to help a little more, and I don't think being okay with a handgun really holds up against everything others can do, you know?

...anyway, I'm rambling. [ She looks down, playing an idle few bars of a melody. ] I've been staying in a lot. Watching old Disney movies, mostly, and I ended up working on this...

[ She adjusts the sheet music and sets her fingers in position. What follows is a nice little rendition with very few errors. Being able to just concentrate on something helps, a lot. Once it's done, she flashes a quick, embarrassed smile at the camera, then leans over and shuts it off. ]

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I think my world was actually more advanced than here, with their medical technology. Or at least what was available to me was more advanced than what is offered here on the .. few times I've needed medical attention.

[ Re-L pauses for a moment, and then decides that perhaps an example may be helpful, tucking a piece of her dark hair behind her ear in the moment, shifting in her seat. ] I was attacked in my home in my world and on the few scrapes I had my doctor could apply a bandage, spray them with a special spray and those healed without a scar in a few days. He stitched the cut on my face for the sake of a smaller scar if one appeared but used the same spray, same result.

[ She touches her right cheek right at the crest to indicate where it might have marked her, though she's obviously wearing make up, and so perhaps is not illustrating her point in the best way about her skin being unmarred in the end. ]

... In my world it is also possible to have children grown in an incubation chamber called the wombsys, which is my main thought as to why it is more advanced there. Or rather, was..

That's new. We've only recently created a similar kind of spray at home that disinfects and closes wounds really quickly, thanks to a particular sort of herb that grows in the region.

[ And also across the world, apparently...but details. ]

The wombs aren't anything like what I've heard before. Are they very common?

I don't know what was in Daedalus' sprays, admittedly. When you're entrusted to the Director of the Health and Welfare Bureau you just allow him to use what he says is best, basically.

[ And the man who literally created your DNA chain, but .. details, right? ]

It's the only way humankind could reproduce, so they were very common. Every fellow citizen of Romdeau Dome came from one so far as I know.

It's because of a nuclear holocaust, before you ask. The why human's can't reproduce on their own anymore tends to be the next question asked, so I will pre-empt it.

[ Chalk up another world to some apocalypse. They're becoming uncomfortably common. Rebecca's mouth is already open to ask that very question, so she shuts it again with a mildly embarrassed laugh. ]

You got me. I imagine population is quite strictly limited because of that.

Yes. Not to mention living in a confined dome. [ Not that the dome exists anymore. Any of them. But that's not a detail she feels she needs to share right at this juncture in time. ]

Each citizen was tailored to fit a particular need within the Dome, as we were all told. A reason for being.

...I see.

[ That answer only brings up a dozen more questions. As horrible as it is, her own world sounds more and more mundane with every new person she meets. ]

So, um...what do you think about this place, compared to there? We're still here for a purpose, but it's not quite so strict.

It's like a candy land, for me. [ well, she's going to be honest about that. Despite how much she's not really a touchy-feely type, she's enjoying finally being able to do something when someone stares at her, that kind of thing. She's spent so long being there strictly for viewing and no touching that the ability to touch is so damn novel. ]

That's not to say that I enjoy being driven by the moons, or anything, but...

I don't have to be referred to as 'Your Excellency' here with a hefty distance between myself and anyone else. It's... refreashing to say the least.

I'm not a great fan of it either, honestly.

[ The moons, that is. The other part takes her aback, just a little. ]

Uh...that was normal for you, back home? Being on that sort of pedestal?

Being the Regent's granddaughter it's basically all I've ever known. I never liked it, but it was life and I hadn't known one where I was unknown until I left Romdeau and then now.

[ And she'd relished in it, once she'd gotten used to the rough atmosphere of the outside, and then the cushy atmosphere with the complications of the moons, here. However, being able to walk without having to be addressed, much less get up to.. well.. things without it being all sorts of rumors the next day?

It's powerful, for Re-L. ]

Anonymity hasn't quite had its shine worn off yet.

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