Echan would love to try anything at all at this point.

Okay.

They try it, a knowledge mage and structure mage working together. (This is getting kind of expensive, but the doctors aren't complaining.)

Extremities first. They stay well away from the brain and leave the spine untouched too.

Doing just the extremities gets partial results. After a while Echan announces that she can feel her right hand again. She could maybe go back to work part-time now, she's optimistic that they've probably saved her life at least for the next few months or so. But she's still exhausted and blind and in pain.

...Isava might hug the doctors, if they seem like they'd like hugs.

That's good! They could try this same thing again, on more parts of her. They were just taking it slowly in case something got worse. And there are other things they can try. Drugs from Milliways with a lot of otherworldly medical knowledge to back them up, but it's all experimental and it would be totally understandable if she wanted to stick with just this, in case trying more things makes it worse again. They could also try and figure out how to get various aid devices and prosthetics and pain drug regimens to work for her.

Hugs maybe not, but one of the doctors will pat him on the shoulder in a vaguely fatherly sort of way? ...A nurse looks at the doctor a bit disapprovingly and will totally hug Isava.

Then the nurse will be the one to get very hugged and thanked for saving them both.

She can think of some devices that might be useful. She's cautiously optimistic about trying the same treatment on the rest of her body, but that seems riskier and she'd rather not die before she can free Isava. She'll try it if she has to, but maybe they have part-time work for her now? She can sew and work with leather.

- Isava interrupts to tell her to please not make that choice just for him. If she just doesn't want to risk getting worse, fine, but can she please not make him the reason she's still sick?

Echan laughs. "I'd be fine, now, but since you insist."

"I'm not insisting! Just..."

"Okay. Anyway, I'll have them see how well they can fix me. You never know, maybe I'll be cured."

The doctors want her to rest and eat well for a day or two, observing, and then repeat the process. If this therapy helps Echan recover, they can use the same treatment for other people with the same thing.

The nurse doesn't argue with them, exactly, but she knows that Echan wants to be able to work again and feel useful, so suggests that she could try sewing as a, uh, dexterity exercise. Get used to using the hand again, reinforce the pathways. The doctors think that's fine as long as she doesn't overstrain herself or anything.

"I'll fetch you some shirt patterns, hon, and needle and thread. We'll even pay you for it, thirty rings a shirt."

"Good, I've spent too long resting already."

She's slow at it. She's quick when she's actually sewing, but she takes long, frequent breaks.

She's a lot better after a couple of days. Some of that is the treatment, some of it is having hope, some of it is having something to do. She's more animated when she talks. She's up more often. She listens to things happening nearby.

She tries to convince Isava she'll be fine if he goes back to Riuhiu to look for work but he's not letting her out of his sight right now.

The nurses continue to bring them both food, and will chat with them. She gets paid for the sewing on time. (The nurses aren't even taking a cut for fetching supplies and delivering the finished shirts.) Doctors and nurses and patients talk about a wide variety of things, though it's all English except for a few people trying to learn Hari.

They also bring Isava books to read, and perhaps he'd like to go to school once they have that organized? Most children in England went to school, learning math and science and reading and writing, and optionally history or cooking or balancing a budget or morals and philosophy. They're going to make it free.

The doctors think they can try the same myelin-restoration treatment on more parts of her, now, if she wants. Particularly her optic nerves. There's nothing wrong with her eyes - so if the nerves recover, they think that her vision might come back.

Echan lets the nurses know that she could teach people Hari or Lexori.

School sounds like a great idea but will he have to learn English first?

She does want that. She wants that very badly.

Nurses spread the word! Some people want to talk to her in Hari. Mostly not the same people for very long - most people who come in here get hurt, get patched up, and then leave. They seem weirdly reluctant to pay for Hari lessons but will do things for her or try to teach her and Isava English in return.

They're going to have at least one or two teachers who teach in Hari. Probably a lot of the other kids will know only English, though.

They try it. They do the same cell-restoring treatment on most of the peripheral nerves in her body, focusing particularly on the optic nerves.

If they're willing to trade English lessons then she assumes they're just not very liquid right now. Probably because they just arrived and don't have jobs. She could use some English lessons and so could Isava.

Well, she's better now. Hard to say if what's left is permanent damage or if they just need to keep going with her brain and spine or if it's both of those things. But she's happy with the results, she'll recommend them to anyone else who needs help.

There is definitely some permanent damage. And trying this on the spine and brain is probaly more risky than peripheral nerves, they're different sorts of things to an extent.

Is she going to move out of the hospital now or stay and acclimatize? They can probably let her stay for another few days but will have to start asking for money sooner or later. They also have experience in helping people recover. Special exercises, fitting aid devices, and the like.

She'll stay another day and then go home. She'd like to know when they expect to have school organized and what they'll need to do to enroll Isava.

The school will be ready in like a month. Probably she just needs to show up again closer to that? They're still organizing most of their... Stuff.

A city has sprung up outside of the hospital. The rows and rows of tents are thinned out some, and tall buildings in a strange style rise up in neat lines closer to the river.

Some travel services have sprung up on the road out. Automaton-bus fare back to Riuhiu is 6 rings per seat.

...Do they need any help organizing their stuff?

If not she'll just head home.

They think they have it covered, and that getting this much organized in a week and a half or so is already pretty impressive. The city government is going to have city taxes and city ""laws"" (you agree to follow the rules when you enter - technically it's a sort of common contract and there are probably going to be issues with that eventually but they don't think becoming their own state is a good idea right now.)

Ahem. Anyway, no, they're good on administrators and organizers thank you.

Of course, she's very impressed with them.

And off they go.

Nikolas gets a letter from Lanisal. When would it be convenient for him to come visit her?

He sends a letter about how very busy he is in return, along with a package containing a prototype satellite transceiver and instructions for attaching it to her computer and installing an also-prototype email client.

They are all very grateful for such a generous gift. Would he like the clan's help with any of the things he's working on right now?

Detailed feedback on the gifts would be appreciated! He's curious whether any video games or other programs have come out from them yet. And he's about ready to send them info on how to make websites. When the internet becomes a thing, having useful or fun websites ready to go will be good for both the clan and his business.

They've done a timewasting game and extended his calculator and are just finishing testing a family tree program. They send detailed feedback on everything.

Lanisal will be ready to launch some new shows as soon as the internet is a thing.

They wouldn't like to interrupt anything, but he would be very welcome to come visit at his soonest convenience when things are quieter.

I get the hint. Three days from now, sunrise?

Three days from then at sunrise Lanisal will be ready for him.

"Glad to see you've made progress on the programming. Handy things, aren't they, computers?"