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He asks Lintalai questions about all the clues that she is unusual.

Eventually:

"I have no explanation for how she can identify animal products at a distance but I think she's a... plant."

Kan Neli

"An ....Amentan plant? Or an alien plant?"

"I'm not a botanist. Amentan plants do not usually have, uh, most of her properties, but I can't say that alien plants usually do either..."

Nod. "Do - do we have any way to check that she's a healthy plant, aside from asking her?"

"...you might want a botanist. I have a ficus but all it needs is water and indirect sunlight."

"Ah huh."

"I'm sorry. I wish I could be more helpful."

"It's - very useful to know that Lintalai is a plant."

"I suppose if she - wilts? - then don't do whatever you just did, but..." Shrug.

"Uh huh. Vaccinations and so on would be - useless or harmful?"

"...if I imagine injecting a shrub with a flu vaccine I imagine it does nothing. But I don't actually know. Perhaps you could - let her look at them?"

"Do you know how we could get vaccines for her to look at?"

"I know where but not how - my license is tied up in some trouble..."

"I heard about that. If it got cleared up do you think you could arrange her normal vaccination records whatever they, uh, look like to her?"

"...that would trouble my license again if anyone noticed."

Nod.

"I know how."

"Ideally she would have records that are slightly unusual but not worryingly so and not inconsistent with her - real medical results, so that if it eventually makes sense to inform people that Lintalai is an alien plant no one would wonder at the fact it took so long to come out, but I don't know if it's remotely plausible that she could have been getting routine medical care without being obviously a plant."

"She doesn't have a heartbeat."

"Are there any circumstances under which a doctor wouldn't check?"

"It'd be standard with any checkup - blood pressure, pulse - there's blood tests for all kinds of things -"