Learning the Arts

[Cathbodua]

[member="Ery'lyn Ashaal"]

Her padawan was prepared a sshe remained off to the side behind the turrets itself when the one fired off a beanbag owards the padawan and she spoke. "Now dodge." watchign to let her remain there until she prepared herself. With some more of the things around all of them, with some of the works she was doing until they had prepared in here. She wanted the girl to move around and use everythign she had. Moving here, compared to moving in the field where people might be trying to kill her on the grounds of just healing others. She was likely not going to be fighting for long periods if at all, she was going to be by the easier and weaker targets which most groups loved to fight and there was a danger in it.

 

[Ery'lyn Ashaal]

[member="Cathbodua"]

The padawan flung herself away from the projectile, or at least attempted to. While she had used the force energy to strengthen her muscles against the increased gravity, she didn't know how transfer the same energy into movement. The first bean bag hit her solidly on the upper arm, sending a wave of throbbing through the limb. Cursing, the Togruta shifted her attention away from the pain and towards the next turret, twisting enough so that the next bag was not a direct hit. It glanced off her shoulder, eliciting another curse from the girl.

"Maybe....not....as ready...as I....thought." Ery managed to get out between labored movements. Each step and twist felt as though she were swimming through liquid titanium. The simple exercise required more force of will and concentration than she'd ever tried to use at once before. She winced against the pain of the impacts on her limbs and focused on the energy coursing through her.

"Suggestions....would be....nice." She glanced over at her instructor.

 

[Cathbodua]

[member="Ery'lyn Ashaal"]

She was listening to her and staying there for a moment while they all moved around. With a look down at her while she was tanding there. "Focus your mind and allow the energies to guide you. Once you feel the turret fire dig in with the force and use it to move. Anticipation and being prepared is important but your bodies ability to handle the pressure here and the strain is only a small taste of what it will be like on worlds." She moved around in a small circle thaat had the gravity easily enough. "For the pain your energies are going to numb it. You should know your body better then anyone and be able to channel the energies better to sooth and heal yourself."

 

[Ery'lyn Ashaal]

[member="Cathbodua"]

Ery'lyn watched the master move around easily with appreciation and a little twinge of jealousy. She paused, taking internal stock of her injuries and what her body was telling her. Her shoulder and upper arm throbbed from the impact, the beginnings of glorious bruises already forming. The energy that she'd puled from the Force to strengthen her body against the gravity sat there, waiting for direction. Finding the image of water surprisingly easy to work with, she pictured the energy as a blanket of liquid just under her skin. Imagining that same liquid flowing and pooling in each of the injured and pained muscles, her eyes widened as the throbbing abated and a cool sensation replaced it.

The Togruta nodded her readiness to continue, this time allowing herself to feel the force, rather than fight or force the energy to work for her. She waited, focused on the feelings surrounding her as the next turret fired. As the energy around her shifted, she allowed her body to move with it. Surprisingly, she felt no resistance as her body smoothly avoided the bean bag and resumed its ready position, poised and waiting. She couldn't resist a small smile, eyes lit in anticipation of the next bag.

 

[Cathbodua]

[member="Ery'lyn Ashaal"]

She could see the padawan doing it, feeling it in the force and crossing her arms back over her chest there was a small nod of approval.. though she wasn't going to praise her. There was the silent confirmation that she was doing well and that would have to do. She wasn't looking to distract her before she was moving and there was a few things she was concerned about. She knew togruta montrals were sensitive which could prove a danger if they were impacted. Much liek twi'lek lekku in this scenario where it could be more dangerous so she would have to be careful and prepared for that to happen. She looked over some more of it and spoke. "Better but do not allow yourself to lose focus. Your body when you are healing others in the field will be undergreat strain and vulnerable. As a healer you will be able to look at and will attempt to heal everyone but others will not see it that way. It is a sad fact, those you save may try and attack or kill you afterwards because you will also heal those who will attack them. Eliminating you means those injured can die. A short sighted view as it will also ensure any others of theirs who are injured will have no help but their intelligence is not always something you can appeal to."

 

[Ery'lyn Ashaal]

((I could have SWORN I replied to this days ago...I am so sorry for the delay. My laptop has given me issues with posting recently.))

Ery'lyn used the force to dodge two more bags, each one slightly easier than the one before. She felt her body adjusting to the new energy and pressure, using it as one would an old unused muscle, slowly at first, but easier as it warned up. She'd grown accustomed to the feeling of the gravity field muting the world around her, the muffled buzz now almost welcome to keep the distractions of the rest of the room away.

"Do you work alone when in the field? Are there enough healers to work together?" Working alone when trying to heal an entire battle's worth of injured was far from a good idea. "Are you often healing both sides of a conflict?" Her initial assumption, that they would chose a side of the conflict to fight and heal for seemed short-sighted and selfish now that she had time to examine the thoughts. Maybe they would pick a side to fight for, but no one deserved to die just because they were soldiers for a side of conflict you disagreed with.

This train of thought lead to an entirely different, but related, revelation. She would have to choose. Ery'lyn would be responsible for healing as many people as she could but when it came down to it, at some point, she would have to pick who needed healing first. And that meant people might die because of her decisions. Not to mention if her strength failed. She shook her head to clear it of such dreary and heavy thoughts. She would deal with that when it came time to make those decisions. She wasn't anywhere close to field ready and by the time she was, hopefully she would have found the wisdom to make the right decisions by then.

Ery shooed the thoughts away and readied herself for the next strike.

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[Cathbodua]

[member="Ery'lyn Ashaal"]

The padawan's mind was racing and Cathbodua was looking at her as she stood there. She had a look on her face undert he mask though when she looked over it. "No we are healers. We do not pick sides, we do not choose who gets hurt. We can only make the decision of how we help them when they are with us. THe more injured someone is should mean they get your attention but there are notabe exceptions. If your medical area is overflowing with small and minor injuries and you can heal dozens of them at once it is sometimes better to handle the overflow then the ones through triage. You will have to make those decisions, you will be in charge of seeing what can come from it."

She moved around and the question of healers working together was hard as well. From her experience, when more healers got together all of them seemed to think they were correct and it had to e done their way. One of the main reasons she had been for awhile at least in opposition to Maya here in the silver jedi had been because she refused to join Maya's medical company and healers. Preferring the freedom of operating on her own and teaching without the hevy restrictions of needing to clear every patient and be approved to use anything. She didn't like a number of the others like Aleidis, Boolon, Rianna for that purpose as well. They wanted to be in charge of everything and micro manage when there were patients.

"As to healers being able to work together, it can be complicated."

 

[Ery'lyn Ashaal]

Ery'lyn frowned at the implications and shook her head slightly. Right now it was easy to talk about conflicts and choices, but in the field? In the field one decision could mean life or death. And they were only people, prone to fallacies and mistakes like any. Doubt was a familiar emotion, but to doubt the choices you had to make on the spot could be disastrous. All of the doubt stemmed from fear, an even more dangerous emotion for the Jedi. "How do you handle mistakes? How do you keep from...from doubting your decisions?"

The fear of failure nestled in her chest, a small burn that made her swallow. She knew that she was a long ways off from those decisions and situations but the doubt still hung there, waiting for acknowledgement. The padawan turned to face Master Cathbodua and chose to investigate the problems that arose from healers working together a bit further. "Complicated? Shouldn't working together be a good thing? If there are multiple healers working in tandem, that means more injuries can be healed and less strain. Shouldn't they want to work together as much as possible?"

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[Cathbodua]

[member="Ery'lyn Ashaal"]

Looking at her padawan and there were two good questions in that as she moved around. The real answer and ideal was that she never doubted her decisions... though that wasn't true there was a time and place for everything that they did. "Doubt is a dangerous thing for the jedi to have and for a healer it can impede you. The capabilities to make a decision in the field and stand by it is important. Yes it is easy to look at something happen and say that you would have done this or that but in the moment you might not have that information or foresight. You cannot allow doubt to creep into your mind and any decision you make regardless of the outcome you will need to be confident in." As to the second question well she had worked with many healers and all wanted to be in charge and have all follow them in the actions. "As for working together it is ideal but all healers seem to want to be the one and only leader. it is less about the patients then having it done their way."

 

[Ery'lyn Ashaal]

Ery'lyn nodded thoughtfully, understanding better why her master was reticent to work with other healers now. It would do no one any good if the healers spent their time bickering about who to heal and how instead of actually healing patients. A hive full of queen bees would get nothing done. "I didn't realize there were so many different opinions on how to heal."

She turned back to the turrets and readied for another round of bags shot in her direction, she'd already derailed the training session enough with her questions. She wouldn't spend any more time dwelling on doubts or decision making, it would only lead her in circles and get her nowhere. She'd just have to trust that when the time came, she'd have the faith and confidence in her choices as Master Cathbodua did. "Sorry, my curiousity ran away with me again." She practiced moving in the gravity field again, reorienting herself to the feeling of using the force to guide her movements. After a short period, she was ready again.

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[Cathbodua]

[member="Ery'lyn Ashaal"]

Cathbodua was looking at her as she seemed satisified with the answers to her questions before she was going back around and the turrets were moving a little faster. The small orb of an AI popping up on the one wall and following before she listened to it. "Doctor we have incoming patients. Field teams that have been clearing debris from the attacks and they will be in the sub basement." She was looking at a cople other things here acknowledging it. "Very well, begin triage procedures and non critical patients that the students would be using have set aside for padawan Ashaai to practice with. Make sure she has a set of healer robes as well."

 

[Ery'lyn Ashaal]

Ery'lyn watched as the AI entered the room and relayed its message. Her eyes grew wide and she swallowed nervously as Master Cathbodua requested patients to be set aside for her to practice with. It was out of the frying pan and into the fryer in a matter of seconds. "Oh great, put the new one in charge of patients her first day, what could go wrong?!" She murmured under her breath, her mouth quirking up in a small smile. The sarcasm was a familiar coping mechanism anytime she was truly stressed, she just couldn't keep the smart alec comments to herself.

She focused, using the force energies to guide her steps as she made her way to the edge of the room outside of the increased gravity field. She stumbled as she emerged, the sudden release of the forces on her body throwing her off balance and nearly off her feet. She smiled sheepishly and righted, breathing deeply as she felt almost weightless after the time spent in the intense pressure. "Maybe I should just...watch? At least this time." She asked quietly, her hesitation stemming from nerves more than an actual reluctance to try. Working on living patients was a far cry from reading about it or even learning to dodge projectiles.

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[Cathbodua]

[member="Ery'lyn Ashaal"]

Cathbodua was looking at her and remained there for a moment heading over to show er the medical center. "That is why there is triage." She opened the door as the others were moving around. her small medical team and nurses. "Triage is the first line in what a healer needs to do. You find the most critical, the ones who are at risk and work with them. Save them and move down as needed from critical cases to critical cases." She could see some more of it before they were looking and she pointed. "Medical students from the hospitals who work with us and initiate healers handle the low risk patients. These are ones who while they were in an accident, show no initial signs of problems. It could just be scraps, small cuts and bruises. The ones who should be safe if you mess up, if there are dangers the nurses are there observing you. They also young healers and doctors for breakfast so don't screw up."

 

[Ery'lyn Ashaal]

Ery'lyn followed Master Cathbodua and watched the organize chaos of the medical ward. Teams of nurses, healers, and apprentices worked in a comfortable rhythm with each other, working in small groups to assist as many patients as possible. She took the offered medical robes and slipped them on, gulping audibly.

"I don't think anyone plans to screw up." She muttered, eyeing the group of patients she was lead to warily. Her mind wondered how she was to apply the skills she'd mastered in the gravity field to this. Her nerves amplified the energy pulsing through her, but unlike dodging the bean bags, she had no goal or task to accomplish yet, and so it waited, sending her nerves tingling. Louder, she inquired, "How does this relate to what we just did? Don't I need to understand..." She eyed a species of creature she'd never seen in person before and didn't even know how to name, "Anatomy, first?"

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[Cathbodua]

[member="Ery'lyn Ashaal"]

She looked at her. "In the gravity room you were learning how to numb and heal your body. Now push that outwards, look for the nerve endings and pain receptors that are there. Where they are hurting and where they are at risk of it all." There was no huge danger to the things they were doing here, She could work on the lesser patients and put what endurance training she had learning how to pace herself and focus her mind to work. It wouldn't be easy but Cathbodua was working on many of the things here. She spoke on the intercom while working with the other students who were learning and standing in one of the medical bays with the other patients.

 

[Ery'lyn Ashaal]

Ery approached one of the patients, nodding at another medical student working nearby with a nervous smile. The woman had a bandage wrapped around her upper arm and the Togruta smiled in sympathy, her own arm aching with new bruises.

"Hello, I'm Ery'lyn." She debated offering a hand to the woman but decided against it. She was there to heal her after all, not to have a nice chat over lunch. The padawan glanced back at her Master, hoping she was going about this the right way. She wasn't particularly shy, but this was a bit out of her comfort zone.

The woman introduced herself as Linna something or other, Ery promptly forgetting the surname as she focused on her task. As before, the force came when asked, filling her with the warm comfort of energy running through her muscles. Now was the hard part, doing what she had done in the room to another being. She smiled sheepishly and couldn't resist another glance at [member="Cathbodua"] before reaching out with the force to attempt to heal the woman in front of her.

 

[Cathbodua]

[member="Ery'lyn Ashaal"]

"Lights." She said it and the lights in the medical center switched, not going out but the filter went over it. ABle to keep it from irritating and harming sensitive skin as she stood there for a moment and unclasping the face mask pulled it off so she could look down. Ghostly pale skin and short black hair gave a look but she was lean with muscle in most places. The bodysuit stopping just under the chin itself where she could speak. "Continue with the triage." She stuck there looking at them when her hand came out and glowing holding the blue cube where the others in the room cleared out. She was letting the force energies there so that she would be able to heal them, the crystal crystal of fire that they had here for the doctors and halers to work with. It froze the room and there was a small dead zone around herself so that she could move around and they would be suspended in place with the small fields making sure they didn't bleed out. THe younger healers were watching and taking notes before they moved into the room and helped with the healing where she was augmenting all of them. The blue veins of the bodysuit she was wearing made her a massive augmentation to the healers nearby for treating their patients.