"Sure! Just hold me out so I don't land on you, human's my natural form..."

"Oh. Right. Yeah. No worries."

She holds Lianne out.

And she transforms back to human.

"So, how did I do? Reasonable for someone's firs-- second attempt?"

"Very much so! Better than my early attempts, at least. I got a lot more injuries."

"That's good. ...my performance, I mean. Not your injuries."

"I figured! And I healed pretty well, so. Learning experience."

"Well, you definitely seemed to have learned from it.

And thanks for the help. It was much appreciated."

"No. Thank you. It - meant a lot, you coming to get me."

"It was the right thing to do."

"And you're the type to do that."

"Because I should be.

...

People should do the right thing. People often don't, but they should. And I'm not going to hold anyone to a standard I can't meet myself."

"Good. That's something I really like about you, you know."

"Uh, thanks?

...not that I'm being ungrateful, it's just-- It's what I should do, and it feels odd to be complimented on it? Not that I don't appreciate the sentiment. Just. Yeah."

"That makes sense. Sorry to have made you uncomfortable. I just - like noting things like that when I see them."

"No, it's fine. It's good that someone notices stuff like that."

"Yeah." She hums. "We haven't had much of a chance to talk though really - what do you do, when you're not valiantly fighting monsters?"

"Like, job-wise or hobby-wise? I'm a police officer in my day job-- emergency calls, mostly. Hobby-wise, I work out, dance a bit-- mostly lindy-hop, really. What do you do?"

"Don't actually have a job right now - I used to work as an EMT, though, might go back to that for a bit. Hobbies... Mostly drawing, running... I was competitive in track in high school."

"Cool! EMTs do good work. And running's a good hobby."

"Yeah - EMT work was kind of stressful, I might look into something else medical-field. Just something I'll have to think about. And running's good for clearing my head."

"...I was about to suggest 'nurse,' but honestly I have no idea if that's less stressful. Practice nurse, maybe."

"Probably depends on what I'm doing, really - I should probably just talk to different people. Some kind of - health educator or outreach person might play to my strengths well, though."

"Yeah, you've got options, and plenty that'd help people-- like, I know that people in the health field can be incredibly bad at helping people, but I don't think you're at risk of that."

"Thanks. Maybe - someday I'd like to be able to change stuff more broadly, you know? Maybe try to get myself in an administrative position."