“Uh. I - okay, haha, very funny.”

Arghhhh why this!!! Marian is clearly not qualified to have this conversation!!!

“Okay. Um. What if hypothetically someone really was a D&D cleric though. How would you test that if you didn’t want to make them waste healing magic that’s not unlimited.”

Dr Chadra is staring at her with the blank expression of someone who has been awake all night and is too tired for this. 

“…Uh, I guess I would ask if they had magic items. Hypothetically.”

“Huh. Okay. …I’m going to go ask if she has magic items,” whatever that might include, “and come back.”

“…If you and Fraser made fake D&D magic items for a prank I’ll be genuinely impressed.”

Pause.

“Clerics cast from Wisdom and hypothetically might have a periapt of wisdom. I’ve literally always wished those were real.”

Marian understood about half of that but sure. 

She goes back to Samora’s room. …Does she, in fact, still somehow speak “Celestial”? It’s been long enough that she’s suddenly wondering if she somehow hallucinated that.

The vocabulary and grammar are still right there in her brain when she looks for them! Samora is also right where Marian left her, now freshly sink-bathed with a damp cloak and belt instead of bloodstained ones.

"Hello! I thought of a way I can demonstrate magic without wasting a spell slot!  This is a bag of holding." She sticks her entire arm into her six-inch-deep belt pouch. It doesn't visibly bulge. "Also my belt makes me stronger and my headband makes me wiser and I don't mind letting other people try them on as long as I get them back."

...Wow, okay. Marian remembers thinking that there were a surprising number of objects in the bag, but it would absolutely not have occurred to her to try shoving her hand into it. (Could you fake that with, like, stage magic?) 

She has a thing that makes her wiser! (Marian has no idea what 'periapt' means, maybe it's the same thing as a headband?) Also a belt that makes you stronger sounds pretty cool, though honestly significantly less exciting than an unlimited spell that stabilizes dying people. 

"We were also just talking about that! - the game that our world has with the alignments also has magic items. I think that's good. I'm going to go ask - I think you might've met Dr Chadra last night? I'll go get him and tell him to come look." 

Dr Chadra is still at the desk, and looks up expectantly. "That was fast."

"104 had the same idea! Can you bear with me for like two more minutes and come look? - trust me, if it's a prank it's a really really impressive one and I'm not the one who did it." 

Sigh. "Right. Okay. I'm coming." 

Probably just because it's the fastest way to get rid of her but whatever, Marian will take it. She heads back over to Pod Two with him. "Right, so she has a bag that's bigger on the inside and a belt that makes you stronger that she's willing to lend - and a headband for wisdom! That she's also willing to lend!" 

"A headband? Huh." But he follows her agreeably enough back to room 104. 

Where Samora continues to speak no English but can stick her arm in the bag again and then offer it to him to try for himself. If they've invented a nonmagical version of this too, that will be somewhat embarrassing but very impressive.

Oh that’s such an obvious stage magic trick oh but she's actually going to let him play with it? He thought that was one of the things stage magicians don't usually do, and the trick is that the pocket is actually in their shirt or whatever. 

He'll do that, then. 

- okay, this is a genuinely impressive prank and he can't be annoyed about Marian pulling him over for it. 

...actually he genuinely can't tell how you could fake this. 

"Wow. Um. Can I borrow the, uh, headband of Wisdom?" Strength is less cool and also the belt is, like, wet. "Ask her if it'll mess it up if I sani-wipe it?" Not that that works incredibly well on porous objects but it makes it feel slightly less stupidly irresponsible and against policy to try on the personal clothing items of a patient in isolation for an infectious disease.

Marian can relay that, yeah. 

"It's very hard to damage, it'll be fine. I need it back by this afternoon or I won't be able to prepare as many spells tomorrow." She takes off the headband and holds it out to Dr. Chadra. Taking it off is a bit disorienting, but she's lent it to Marshall before while he was patching her and Tris up with the medkit, so she's used to it.

He puts it on. 

...He makes some faces. 

"- oh SHIT 103 was on birth control I bet that's - sorry I have to go I'll be right back -"

Well. That sure looked like it was having an effect, and hopefully Dr Chadra will find that convincing once he gets back from, uh, whatever secretly-birth-control-drug-interaction-related problem 103 is apparently having. 

"He just realized something he was missing about a problem a patient was having," Marian explains in Celestial for Samora's benefit. "Is that a thing that Wisdom headbands do?" 

"Yeah, that happens a lot. I should have warned him, actually, some people try wearing Wisdom for the first time and realize that they're in love with their best friend or desperate to run away to sea or whatever and he wouldn't've heard the stories about it. It's not common or anything though, most people just realize the answer to whatever was confusing them in the background like he did." Samora's first time with the headband she realized some ways she could have positioned herself differently in the previous fight for better flanking and screening.

(That does seem really valuable but it's actually a lot less intrinsically appealing than the stabilizing-people spell. Marian gets enough 'realizing she was being stupid about something' during, like, hiding-in-the-bathroom breaks.) 

...She does kind of want to borrow the belt briefly and see how much stronger it makes you. (And if Dr Chadra is still unsure if the headband was, like, placebo effect, he might be convinced by watching her suddenly be able to lift something she shouldn't be able to lift?) 

She can do that. It doesn't make her superhumanly strong, but it's very noticeable.

That's really cool! Is this what it feels like to be a guy with testosterone who can show up to the gym and do five pull-ups just like that, rather than that being a diligent months-long project?

...Marian is going to go do ten pullups off the doorframe of the room because she CAN. (Not, like, effortlessly? But it's still spectacularly satisfying.) 

It would probably be cheating or something to borrow this the next time she manages to go to krav maga practice (and also, like, one assumes Samora needs her belt for way more important things than Marian showing off.)