"I'll eat, promise. Once the seasickness wears off."

"Pretty sure there's tablets in here somewhere for that."

"I'll dig them up, you head off to dinner."

And off Rex goes to do that.

Anders focuses on familiarising himself with the machinery, beating back the feelings of homsickness.

He's left in peace to do that. There's not a massive amount of machinery in the medbay - a scanner being the major thing, and what looks like a device to assist with having to cut someone open.

Anders pokes and prods it for a while, laughing inside at what people are forced to do without magic.

Someone, somewhere, is probably getting offended and not even knowing why.

A while later, there's a tap on the door, and then Deke sticks his head in. "I come bearing food?"

Anders is elbow deep in the contraption, but looks up. "Deke! Hello, sorry, I was investigating new tech."

"Tana can put it all back together if you break it. It's happened before."

"I'll remember that for next time." Anders smiles over his shoulder.

"I'll leave this here," Deke puts a plate on the side.

"Thank you. And thank you for being so kind. I appreciate it, truly."

Deke snorts. "What else were we gonna do exactly?"

"Well, you could've left me strung up like a chicken on your hull. Or thrown me into the ocean."

"Circ's hardline notwithstanding, believe it or not, even those of us who aren't exactly...within the bounds of the law in how we make our living, we've got codes, you've got to out here. You don't leave a man to drown."

"I wouldn't have blamed you. You don't know who or what you're picking up sometimes."

"No, you don't. But believe me, we're more than capable of looking after ourselves. Even Tana. If you decide to be a threat, we can handle it."

"I'm rather hoping to be an anti-threat. A threat healer, if you will."

"Well, you're doing alright so far."

Beats. "Tana or Rex'll probably already have said, if Circ does anything...too drastic, let me know."

"I'm getting a lot of warnings about Circe, I feel like I have to be concerned."

"I mean, she has ever keelhauled someone. Jackass did in fact deserve it - the devout medic. Who decided to tell Tana she was broken. And...some other stuff happened, that only Mak and Circ know the specifics of. You don't seem like the type to cause that, but she's far more sharp edges than curves, and she doesn't always recognise where the lines are."

"Sometimes those sharp edges see what we can't."

"You're not wrong. But sometime they cut other people too deep."