Noofy had just turned to leave.

"What happen-ed?"

"She doesn't look like a robot she looks dead!"

"Oh. Amaliens don't die, so she doesn't look like a dead amalien."

"She is scary though. I could... try to find one of the assistant doctors? They can prolly help you 'nstead."

"Yes please." He shudders. "I'm sorry. Of course she isn't actually dead. It's only that she looks it."

"Doesn't look like any dead people I've seen, but guess those were bigger and more burnt use-lly."

Noofy acquires an assistant doctor, Gogo - an amalien with a stethoscope. 

"Hi, I'm gogo! 'm here to fix you. I'm not as good as Xeelia but I used to be a vet so 'm pretty good at doctor-ing."

"Hi, Gogo. I'm Spree Achan. I've got a bad knee, the cartilage is wearing out. That seems like probably not the sort of thing that would be very different in animals so maybe it'll be easy but if it does look confusing I'd as soon you leave it be, all right?"

"Oh, um I meant mortals. Used to be that animals were the only things that could get perm-anently hurt easy, and people were all amalies or monsters. It sounds pretty easy to help you!"

Gogo shoos Xeelia out of the med bay before showing Spree in. They promptly go and start poking a screen, bring-ing up a detail-ed rendering of Spree's knee.

"Hm, yuppers. Good to put some new coatings and things in there and you'll be skipping and good again soon. Our technology is really fancy like that!"

"Is this a quick outpatient thing?"

"Mhm, just gotta transport in some cells that are 'bout right. Easy peasy! Won't even hurt a bit. Might swell a tinsy bit for a bit but that'll go away."

"I'll hold on to the cane for now, then. Thank you."

"Oh... kay."

Gogo doesn't know why but also doesn't know having a vetdoctor works for people.

"- in case the swelling makes it hard to walk," Spree clarifies.

"Oh! Okay."

""Good to do it now? Should only take a minute."

"Yep, go ahead!"

Gogo pushes some buttons the monitor for a bit and takes out what looks sorta like an IR Thermometer, and hovers it over Spree's knee, watching the render-ing of the knee's inside on the screen as they do that. The device makes a buzzing sound for bit, and cartilage startings being layered on the knee in the render-ing, as Gogo moves the device around to layer it on right. Takes fifteen seconds to do, and Spree might feel his leg expand-ing a tiny bit as Gogo does that.

"All done!"

Gogo absent mind-ly gives Spree head scritches for doing a good job staying still.

"- excuse me?"

"Oh, sorry. Forgot you're a person and not an animal I was being a vet for."

"- ah, I was about to ask what that meant in your culture."

"Means that the doggy or lamb or deer or bird did a good job staying still. Cept you are not one of those even if you need a vet."

"Um. Amal-iens heal on their own 'ventually and can nap through the healing so we didn't have many doctor's for people. Sometimes monsters are also people but they also heal on their own mostly. But animals wouldn't and so I'd help animals be okay if they were hurt. Was 'usually for pets but not always."

"There was an amalien who got good at helping people continue working and not need to sleep in em-ergencies but she got turned into a borg and now she's scary for a lot of people I guess. Didn't reali-ize she'd be that scary for someone who didn't know her before."

"If she'd been just a robot that would have been fine."

"She sorta seems like just a robot in how she acts and that act-ually seems really scary to me cause she didn't use to."

"That makes sense, I'd be alarmed if someone I knew began acting like a robot."

"Mhm.. She did it for good reasons but. Sorta wish she didn't. Cept that would be worse for a lot more people."

"What were the reasons?"

"Was a planet of people who were all goign to die and we couldn't help nearly most of em cause there were so many and the planet was so bad and messed up and. They pref-erred al-most anything to not dying including being borg mostly. And we wanted the borg to help but need-ed them to agree to not doing really bad things in our part of the galaxy before we brought any of them here and they were really hard to talk to. So Meelia decided we need-ed someone who had all our thoughts on this and knew how to commun-icate with us  to become one of them so she went to them and didn't fight when they tried to assim-ilate her. Took them a while but they did."

"People on the plan-et got assimilated but. Can't un-assim-ilate someone."