Breda is the oldest one there, and is pretty unhappy about the acceleration of takeoff! She doesn't feel sick enough to justify pressing the button or calling out, though; she's mostly just annoyed at missing the opportunity to enjoy watching the screens. 

Shavri also only gets opportunities to glance at them, because she's also busy watching the other two with Healing-Sight to make sure neither of them is going to have a stroke or a heart problem or anything. 

Once they are up the acceleration squish drops off quite a bit, though there are some jostling movements as they get into position to dock with the mothership. And here it is! Welcome to the Legacy!

Whoooooa that's incredible! Absolutely worth the being squished! Breda is trying to look in every direction at once! 

Shavri is trying to stay FOCUSED because apparently there are people up here who were badly hurt and need attention from a Healer? She asks one of their guides if they should go see them now. 

Yes, they can go there first thing, though all the patients are stable.

Here's the bunch who got set on fire.

Wow, some of them look pretty badly messed-up! It would have been good to get Healers to them sooner, all things considered, but...they'll do their best. 

(Shavri is guessing that anyone who wasn't stable has, by this point, either recovered until they were or died.) 

She would appreciate an explanation of what kind of medical care they've been providing already, so she and Gemma know how to work effectively with it? 

The oranges can show her all the equipment and substances they have been deploying! They offer Gemma and Shavri gloves and masks - burns can get infected - and explain all the medicines and grafts and antibiotics.

Antibiotics! Eeeeeeeeeeeee! That's incredible and Shavri is so delighted! Also it sounds like they have much better painkillers than Velgarth, and better solutions for the problem where burn patients start out losing a lot of body fluids and salt and tend to get very weakened from it even if it's usually infection that kills them. Also the grafts are a really neat concept! 

After some consideration, she explains that the Healers can probably offer the most help by making sure the grafts take properly? She wants to look at pictures of how the normal healing process should look, though, to make sure she does it right. 

They can look that up for her, and their help would be very much appreciated!

Then within a half-candlemark of orientation and looking at their materials, Shavri has a strategy figured out to help coax the skin grafts into taking properly, and accelerating through a few days' worth of healing. 

Velgarth Healing-Sight can also penetrate skin, and see in detail which tissues are healthy based on whether they have normal flows of life-force, which means she might know better than they do if some areas aren't healing well or have hidden pockets of infection starting to form. And, of course, while she's doing fine-detail work she can also maintain a link and dump Healing-energy into the patients, whose bodies are probably depleted from all this healing effort. 

...It's not until she's been at work for a candlemark that she asks, tentatively, how this actually happened - what went wrong? 

Amazing! It seems like modern medicine and Healing-Gift have great synergy potential.

One of the patients is awake enough to remark that they landed in Karse - they were curious about the war, that's why they also landed in Valdemar - and before they'd even gotten a sentence in they were set on fire. Presumably, in retrospect, with magic, though at the time it was pretty bewildering.

"- Oh, gods. I'm so sorry." Shavri rests a reassuring hand on a part of their arm that isn't burned. "They - it's not your fault, it wasn't anything you did. Karse had - a coup, very recently, there's an extremist priesthood in power now." 

"Is that why the war started?" wonders the blue.

"...The coup was later. I - don't know why the war started. The Karsites attacked first, but... I think it was for different reasons?" 

"They didn't say?"

"I, um - not that I heard about?" 

"Is that... normal for wars? That they just start with no declaration -?"

"...I, er, I mean - if they'd warned us they were going to attack the border then we'd have - prepared for it, right? And then they'd have had a harder time? ....Um, does your world do - something else?" 

"- well usually there's a lot more leadup. Someone's diplomat says 'my observers aren't satisfied that you've complied with international law' or 'this is the third time we've found your submarines in our waters' or even just 'I want your land and I'm going to take it by force', and then the other country can say 'I'm so sorry, here's how I explain those discrepancies, more observers are welcome to confirm' or 'that was my neighbor's submarine' or 'will you settle for this province' or something, and - there's stages, eventually someone might sneak-attack but you'd at least know what it was about."

"- Huh! Does your world have - er, something like a Mindspeech-relay but everywhere? I mean, just, fast low cost communication between different countries? That...seems like the sort of thing that'd change the common practices around, well, that." 

"Oh, yes, but I think gradual diplomatic escalation was typical even before we had things like phones and the Internet!"

"Hmm. Well, good for them? Seems smart." 

Shavri feels suddenly very awkward - she didn't mean to implicitly badmouth Valdemar or their neighbours, she's just bad at this. She pats the patient's arm again (gently and on the un-burned spot) and moves on. 

Bard Breda is trying to meet as many people as she can on the spaceship! She even has a tiny bit of Mindspeech, plus a lot of training at projection, so she can attempt to communicate even with the Amentans who haven't picked up Valdemaran yet. She wants to know all their best stories so she can write songs about them! And also she'd love to hear them sing some of their world's music for her! 

Almost no Amentans have any spoken Valdemaran beyond a handful of plausibly emergency-relevant phrases like "I am an Amentan" and "where can I pee"; instead, devices are picking up what they say and translating it and displaying subtitles on the nearest screen (except when they have technical difficulties) and repeating them out loud in a slightly choppy voice (again, except when they have technical difficulties). Mindspeech is good too though! All the Amentans are happy to meet her and recommend their favorite books and songs! Most of these Amentans are not singers, though some will try - they have plenty of recordings though.