Melody sighs. :I'll go track down the dog bed and move it to his room: It's sometimes hard to tell when Leareth is pushing himself too hard until afterward, which is inconvenient and frustrating for Melody but it's hardly his fault. 

448 makes a querying whine, putting her nose but no other parts of herself up on the bed.

Leareth is having trouble summoning the energy to say words at this point, but he pats the bed in a reassuring sort of way and halfheartedly makes a beckoning gesture. 

Paw on bed?

Paw on bed is fine! Leareth reaches over and tiredly scratches her ears while he tries to figure out if he wants a dog literally in his bed, which seems to be what she's trying to 'ask' about. He vaguely wishes he had Animal Mindspeech. It would simplify this. 

"Come," he murmurs after about thirty seconds. 

Up goes 448 and now a dog is snuggling him.

Leareth sort of half flops an arm over her and closes his eyes, and is soon the most relaxed that he's been since hearing the news about the war. 

Melody knocks softly on the doorframe before carrying in the dog bed. 

....Awwwwwwwwwwwwww. She'll just quietly leave this in the corner and duck out, then. Leaving the door ajar so 448 can slip out if she needs to take care of business 

Melody goes back downstairs. :I think the dog was a good idea: she says to Dree. 

"Oh good! I'm glad it's helping."

:I wasn't expecting it to help nearly this quickly! I guess maybe it really is just a lot easier for him to relax and trust an animal: Melody heads for the kettle. :Anyway, were there other things you were planning to do here today?: 

"Nope, if you don't need me for anything else I'll leave you be."

:Can't think of anything else for right now. I'd better spend some time on language practice, I'll need at least some proficiency if I want to work as a Mindhealer here and I'm already way behind Leareth: 

"Do you? If you can just do telepathy instead?"

:I would feel weird about it? And some people might prefer I not risk picking up any of the content of their thoughts - er, Mindhealing Sight is different, it only sees structure. - Also if I want to consult with other specialists here and don't want to go to them myself or ask them to come here, I can't use Mindspeech to do the remote calling thing: Shrug. :And it'll really tiring if I'm having conversations all day with un-Gifted people. So I guess it doesn't completely rule out seeing any patients as a Mindhealer, but we're likely to be a while, I should really just get it together to learn your language: 

"Okay. Well, I guess you can fall back on telepathy if your accent is difficult - nobody's going to be familiar with it even from TV."

:Right: Melody looks thoughtful. :Can you watch 'TV' on a laptop? I'm pretty curious about it, even though I don't expect to particularly understand anything yet: 

"You can!" Dree shows her Everyshow, an aggregator that pulls together all the various streaming services into a nice UI package. "What kinds of stories do you like - or would you rather nonfiction -"

It's clearly meant to be usable by small children and Melody is slightly embarrassed by how confused she still is. :Honestly, I like romances? Really soppy ones. With happy endings. And some nonfiction about things happening in your world... Ooh, actually, if there's nonfiction or realistic fiction about your Mindhealer-equivalent, I might be able to start picking up some things that way, once I have a bit of the language: 

Dree types in some tags in two separate search panes and comes up with a shortlist of top romance movies and another list with therapy procedurals and a biopic about a famous psychologist and a documentary about a psychiatric pharmacy.

:Thank you!: Melody beams at her. :This is all so impressive: 

"I don't know much about what you're comparing it to!"

:I mean, we have magic! It's sort of hard to compare though, this is still - it's not the same as Bards. I guess even if the actors were Bards - I saw a stage-play once that'd managed to get half the cast as Bardic students, it was incredibly - it still wouldn't work at a distance through a moving picture. And the Quendi were impressive in different ways. But it's very neat! And it doesn't even need magic!: 

"It doesn't!" agrees Dree. "I hope you like the actual stories, I don't know how much culture shock to expect."

:We'll see. I think it'll be useful, though? If anything is particularly weird or confusing to me, I'll know what to ask you about!: 

"Sounds like a plan!" And Dree departs.