"Don't know what's in 'more elaborate.' I don't know how to, like, weave or shit like that - my world's got machines doing all that - I know how to do a lot of fairly elaborate chores but they mostly rely on me having familiar technology."

"Feeding and grooming the mounts, cooking, cleaning, maintaining weapons and armor, washing and mending clothes, fixing buildings, buying supplies in town, doing the accounts, emptying chamberpots, teaching novices?"

"Never been around a horse or other mount thing. I can cook but not over a fire or anything. I can clean. I can maintain weapons but haven't significantly interacted with armor. I can wash clothes, can't mend them. I know stuff about my world's buildings but I have no idea how it applies to yours. Can't speak the local language but I can keep a budget. You guys still use chamberpots? And I can teach people stuff."

"No one wants to walk to the outhouse in their nightclothes in winter. I can put you on laundry if you prefer it to hauling."

"We don't use outhouses! We have indoor plumbing, which I actually know how that works, and it doesn't even require electricity normally. It's way less gross, and I'm pretty sure makes it so people get sick less."

"Paladins don't get sick but maybe we could translate it for someone in the city."

"Hopefully. If you can get me - paper I guess? Or closest thing to it, and however you guys write, I can write it down and do drawings and stuff."

"We have paper and ink. The Winter Light doesn't let us read foreign words, though, only speak and understand."

"Huh. It'll be most useful if it's written down, probably, but I can just talk to someone."

"Sure, I'll help you."

"Thanks."

Kaja gets paper and ink and sits them down in a little library room.

And Jian explains indoor plumbing in as exhaustive a detail as someone who's helped out on a few small house builds can manage. She also knows like any things about waste treatment (she does her best to slack off in class but her memory's annoyingly perfect and they covered this once).

Kaja writes things.

Jian does pretty quickly exhaust her plumbing knowledge. Still, it's more than the locals have.

"Thank you, maybe someone'll get somewhere with this."

"Any time."

"Now let's get you in a novice dorm room. It'll be mostly kids younger than you, though."

"That's fine."

Kaja shows her to a dorm and finds an empty room and introduces her to the retired paladin who looks about seventy years old and serves as RA to the novices but still has her powers including the translation one. "This is Gunilla."

"Hello, child," says Gunilla.

"Hey. I'm Jian."

"Jan," says Gunilla confidently. "There's a room open since Einar took vows, this way."

The room is very plain and medieval. It has a bed and a little table. And a chamberpot.

Blegh.

Still, it's better than the snow.

"Thanks."

"You're welcome. But you should have dinner before you go to bed, my dear."

"I'll show you the dining hall," says Kaja.

She nods. "Lead the way."