11.Jan.19, 02:03 AM
“Ah, that’s not quite what I meant,” Verec said, “apologies, I should have been clearer.” It wasn’t an incorrect answer, he supposed, for the question he asked, but her answer was not what he’d been hoping to get. The information wasn’t useless either; it meant most of the Weyrfolk he’d be teaching had little to no formal classes. That wasn’t an unknown situation, there were occasional students who had little education in reading, writing, and sitting still and listening for extended periods of time, so it’s not like he would have to completely rework how he taught for the them. Still, it was good to know in advance.
“You’re not wrong, of course. Reading, writing, lectures, and hands-on training. I was thinking of it more as ‘what do you imagine Healing entails?’. You may become a Healer, of sorts, what do you suppose you will be doing? Helping people isn’t wrong, but it is very general. What do you know of the Healercraft?” That was hopefully clearer and would get at the ideas Madiquel, and other Weyr-raised people like her, might hold about Healing, including misconceptions he would have to work to correct or worries to dispel — or reinforce, if they were true. It didn’t do to lie to students. They should understand what they were getting into, but Verec liked to know what they knew to start so he confused them as little as possible.
“You’re not wrong, of course. Reading, writing, lectures, and hands-on training. I was thinking of it more as ‘what do you imagine Healing entails?’. You may become a Healer, of sorts, what do you suppose you will be doing? Helping people isn’t wrong, but it is very general. What do you know of the Healercraft?” That was hopefully clearer and would get at the ideas Madiquel, and other Weyr-raised people like her, might hold about Healing, including misconceptions he would have to work to correct or worries to dispel — or reinforce, if they were true. It didn’t do to lie to students. They should understand what they were getting into, but Verec liked to know what they knew to start so he confused them as little as possible.