"Uh, inconveniencing people. People who are stronger than I am paying a lot of attention to me. Raised voices. Anything that looks like it might be a prelude to physical violence. I'm not particularly scared of mals, comparatively, which isn't great, it's just people."

"Mmm. Yeah, that all makes a lot of sense. Uh, what are your main anxiety symptoms that bother you? Is it, like, panic attacks, or being really jumpy, or more doing a lot of worrying and ruminating on things that could go badly...?" 

"Uh, being really jumpy, and--flinchy--it makes me look weak, which is probably true, but it's more true if people think it, just for normal social dynamic reasons not magic reasons."

"Right. Hmm." Marian glances over at Wen Qing. "I should do some research, but I think there are meds that could help with that a lot. I know beta blockers are prescribed for, like, stage fright and maybe some phobias? They work by, like, sort of turning down how intensely your body responds to adrenaline?" 

"I don't know much about it." 

"I wonder if there's a spell for that."

"Maybe! It'd be neat if there were a spell that had fewer side effects, too. But you'd want to know how it worked really solidly, and I don't think Gray's Anatomy has reference material on psych meds, most of the field is newer than that. I - hmm - maybe the void will give me something...?" 

The void is trying very diligently and it can do this! 

It gives her an only slightly coffee-stained copy of Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications 5th Edition.  

Anna-Sabrina looks at the book with mild (for her) alarm. 

Marian isn't sure why she finds the book alarming! "Uh, it's fine, I'm not expecting you to research it yourself or anything! It's mostly for Wen Qing, since she's apprenticing with me." 

"--Oh okay." She relaxes. 

"Anyway I think that's less urgent than your infection problem. Wen Qing, you should feel free to take this one home and study it, right now I'm going to see if I can get a reference guide on antibiotic selection for different problems..." 

Nice void good void she's asking it to do so many hard things and it's doing so well, patpatpat. 

And? 

It will give her a nice laminated pocket card of some kind!

"Right, cool, we need... Looks like cephalexin or doxycycline are probably both decent, and maybe clindamycin? I know we've got oral doxycycline but I think this is bad enough that we'd better get her something IV. I - hmm - cool, we've got cephalexin! I just need to mix this up - Wen Qing, you can watch me do it, this'll be pretty standard..." 

She dilutes the shelf-stable powder with a bottle of sterile water and...damn it...puts it in a 10cc syringe rather than a bag because the void did not provide her with 50 or 100cc bags of saline or of anything else. 

"- Okay, damn it, we're going to have to push this directly into the IV. But really slowly. Over, like, five minutes. Sorry." And Marian is going to delegate to Wen Qing the task of standing there for the next five minutes and  v e r y   s l o w l y  injecting the drug into it. 

Wen Qing is SO good at paying attention to extremely boring tasks. This is another skill trained by the Scholomance.

She's earning so much mana for this.