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a blu medic,
cata

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From the grin on Cata's face, you might think she's planning for an assignment - but she isn't. In fact, she's making a lesson plan.
You see, more than one of her advanced students has expressed interest into doing a little research, and far be it from her not to encourage that sort of thing. So she's currently trying to strike a balance between keeping that sort of project interesting and not giving her students more work than they can handle, at this point.
But that hardly means she'd say no to an interruption.

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"You look as if you've had a good day," observes a familiar voice. "Hallo, Cata."

"Hello yourself. It turns out teaching is a lot more fun when you have students who know what they're talking about."
Well, it is for her, at least. It cuts out the frustration of feeling like her students should know these things already.

"I've had somesing of a similar experience a time or two in ze past," the Medic admits. "Not often, but nonezeless. Good to know you haven't been entirely burdened with first-years."

"There's still no one else to do the teaching, and if there were, I'd stick them with the beginners. I'm not well suited to walking everyone through the basics all the time."
But when they come back for more, they care about the material and aren't going to try something stupid just to see what happens.

The Medic nods. "Even so, at least you haf somesing better to look forward to now," he says. "When did it start?"

"Just over a month ago," Cata says. "I still have beginners, but the students who know all the things I think they should already know are balancing it out."
Of course, they know all of that because she taught it to them, but that's beside the point.
"And how have you been?"

He shrugs lightly. "Well enough. Ze job keeps me busy und on ze road; I sink our next mission is going to send us to somevhere in Asia in ze next week or so."

Nothing wrong security-wise with mentioning the continent, considering its size.

"Herr Demoman vos gifted mit ze largest sword I sink I've ever seen und now insists on carrying ze verdammt thing into battle alongside his explosives und grenade gun. I suspect more equipment is on ze vay for ze rest of us as well."

Not to mention, Cata has no real frame of reference for Earth locations. He could probably tell her exactly where they were going without creating any kind of security breach.
"...Why would he even need a sword? That strikes me as a step backward."
Or several.

"I don't know, I'm sure," says the Medic sourly. "Especially considering his fondness for exploding anyvun who gets too close. But he considers it some sort of tribute to his ancestral heritage und nearly bit Herr Heavy's hand off for attempting to touch it wissout permission."

"Very strange." Cata shakes her head. "He's more likely to get himself shot before he can put the thing to use."

"Und zen I haf to put ze idiot back togezzer." The Medic shakes his head. "I am going to haf to keep an eye out for new weaponry for ze ozzers. Herr Scout is likely to blow off his own kneecaps mit anysing interesting, I'm sure."

"One wonders why your employers are going to all that trouble. It hardly sounds worthwhile."
There's something to be said for sticking to what you're good at.

"Product testing, perhaps? Who knows." He shrugs philosophically. "If nossing else it at least gives me incentive to practice more complicated surgical procedures when ze medigun isn't quite called for. Und if similar products are appearing among ze RED ranks, I haf a chance of collecting more parts for transplantation experiments. It vorks out in ze end, I sink."

"At least the situation isn't without its benefits, then."

"I try to make ze most of ze situation," the Medic says. "Zere is always somesing vorth pursuing even among ze chaos spawned by idiots."

Cata nods. "That there is."
She's wondered more than once how many of the Guild's current contracts would exist if not for Mizzamir and company's interference.

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