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.) 

...Callie thinks this is REALLY WEIRD but you know what, whatever, Marian can live her best life. 

OH NO SHE HADN'T REALIZED ANYONE COULD SEE HER

...It's still really cool, though, even if she's in fact getting pretty tired by ten and also her fingers hurt. 

Dr Chadra is back not that long later. He looks faintly stunned. 

Marian has been trying to think what else could be convincing, if he's still not convinced.

"We could arm-wrestle while we take turns wearing the belt? So you can see that there's a difference?"

(Also it's poooossible she would really enjoy the opportunity to beat Dr Chadra at arm-wrestling. He would probably beat her without the belt in play, though she's not totally sure - he definitely doesn't look like he works out but he is a guy with testosterone - but with the belt she thinks she can probably win? And of course if he has a turn with it he'll crush her.) 

"...Yeah, okay, sure, we could do that."

Dr Chadra is honestly, like, most of the way convinced already? But he's still feeling kind of blank on where to go from there, and also it feels stupid not to do all the easy tests they can think of. And he is kind of curious. 

They can somewhat awkwardly arm-wrestle over the corner of the counter by the sink. 

Marian CAN beat Dr Chadra with the belt on! Not trivially, she has to work for it, but it's really satisfying. 

And then they swap and she doesn't have a chance, which is actually also fairly satisfying since it shows the belt is doing something real. 

...Yeah. It seems so, doesn't it. 

Uh. He...should probably give the cleric her Wisdom-boosting item back. It would suck if she didn't get all her spell slots tomorrow. Dr Chadra is clearly kind of sad about taking the headband off, but he does it and gives it back.

...He looks at Marian. "Wow. Shit. This is - really happening."

See, Marian was hoping that SOMEONE ELSE would be qualified to make decisions about what to do! Instead of looking at her hopefully like maybe she knows! ...This was perhaps predictable when she decided to go bother a resident because residents are tiny babies who are less scary.

Fraser is probably going to get here aaaaaany minute (which, you know, also means more coffee will get here any minute) and he might actually have better ideas, but Marian continues to feel like it would be very cowardly to just wait for him to rescue her. 

"Yeah. I know it's ridiculous but - I think so too." Shit she should have written down how many spells Samora had with various traits, she's now struggling to remember the details.

"- Uh, she wants to heal the janitor who got her horrible disease, which I obviously think we should do, but - can we even bring him here, I don't know how that works. Also she can heal everyone in a thirty foot radius...some times a day? I think it was six? I think that's the one that only works on injuries so it's mostly useful here or the ER and not, like, 6C. And there were other spells that aren't the one that works on diseases. And nothing works on old age and I wasn't sure if, like, COPD counts as old age or as a disease? I think Stabilize works on things that aren't injuries because I'm pretty sure she did it to some guy from 6C who was probably having a PE - we were both in line for a stat CT..." 

She's definitely rambling and should probably stop and let Dr Chadra think. He might actually have better ideas than her if it's really the case that these are all D&D rules. 

"...Uh, yeah, we should - probably get her to heal people here." 

GREAT SO HELPFUL does he have any suggestions for how to tell Dr Harrison. (Marian is pretty sure it's still Dr Harrison on call?)

...that's being mean. Marian has honestly had way longer to think about this. 

"Yeah. We need to get - other people on the unit on board, right. ...I told Fraser to come back in and back me up but apparently he was joking when he said it would explain everything if she was a literal D&D cleric. - mostly joking." 

Blink. "Oh, yeah, that's a good idea. We can wait for him and then - go all three of us and tell people?"

"- Yeah. I think that's a good plan. We can - borrow the bag again?" It's not necessarily the most convincing in isolation but it's probably the most dramatic, and also affects Samora the least if they borrow it, given that she's not wearing it right now? Marian does feel a bit bad about yoinking the magic items that affect her strength and thinking ability longer than necessary, she already misses the belt. 

...Also they've been standing here having this conversation in English and Samora won't have any idea what the conclusion is. Marian should tell her, and also tell her that she still doesn't think anyone is dying right now. She'll - do that. 

Samora smiles encouragingly as she puts her enhancements back on and hands over the bag again. "I can tell you're working hard to take advantage of this opportunity as effectively as possible, with a courage that's just as real as battle-courage. It's the kind of work Iomedae smiles on and I'm glad I get to see it." 

Also, while they were talking she wrote up a little chart of how many of each spell type she has, and how many of each are already used or reserved. It's in Celestial, but tally marks are sufficiently universal that anyone who knows what it's for should be able to consult it.

That's really touching and also Marian feels kind of weird about it. She smiles back and takes the bag, and she'll show Dr Chadra the chart in case he has ideas based on all his D&D knowledge. 

He seems confused by it!

"...This is weird. I'm not familiar with clerics having area effect heals - they usually have area effects for harming undead. Can you ask her if that's - something normal, where she's from, or something special she had to learn?" 

“Wow that’s so much less useful! …I guess maybe it’s useful if you’re having adventures in dungeons.” Marian will relay the question to Samora in Celestial.

"My channels do also harm undead, and if you somehow have any of those around here without magic you should point me at them as soon as I get my sword back. It's a standard power every Good god gives their priests. The priests of Evil gods get the ability to heal undead and harm the living, which is much less useful, but the Evil gods don't care about making it a good idea to work for them."

That seems reasonable enough to Marian although it's still not as useful as Stabilize. She relays it back to Dr Chadra.