"My healing is more free-form, I think. Yours sounds like it's somewhat like - healing packages? It makes someone magically healthy? Mine is more like direct manipulation on a smaller scale."

"That makes sense, yes. I do have more complicated types of healing but the basic sort is very simple."

"I can also directly improve the body's natural processes - it'll make someone hungrier, but it's a good way to heal exotic sorts of damage that can be healed naturally."

"Clever. Did DZ approve?"

"Yes. I did explain in quite a bit more depth first. DZ's diligence is commendable."

"Very much so. Deskyl is lucky to have her." (Desuka pats DZ's arm approvingly.)

"She is, certainly."

He turns his attention back to Deskyl for a moment, then: "I might be here a little bit. Did you have any questions of me?"

"Nothing that can't wait - I have some seeds from my world that I understand you'll be interested in, and I hear you're the person to talk to about getting a house."

"I'm always interested in new seeds! An entirely new world's sounds fascinating! And yes, whenever we need new construction I take care of it, though I'm trying to get ahead of our needs whenever I have time. We keep growing as a city, and it's wonderful."

"That's good to hear! It's always good to have interesting new places to explore. Anyway, I'll leave you to it; Tobirama and I will be doing spell testing this evening but I'm free otherwise if you find time for me."

"I like the people coming in, too! Good luck with Tobirama. He's really happy about these new experiments, though he doesn't really show it. I should have time after you're done with Tobirama."

He nods. "I won't want to stay up too late; I have to do my devotions at sunrise to get my spells for the day. But I can make a little time."

"I'm more of a morning person than most people here. I don't mind meeting today and tomorrow, or waiting until tomorrow..."

"I'll look for you when I'm done, how about."

"That sounds good! I'm all over the place most times, so just ask Tobirama where I am."

"That should work. I'll see you then."

He moves off a little to explain his and Ertan's situation to DZ and Desuka and ask if they have any questions, and then gets started on exploring the city properly.

The city is far larger than it looks from the ground level. None of the buildings are more than three or four stories, and the extensive parks and groves of trees block sound pretty well. There's distinct areas with people who wear similar symbols and often have distinct looks - a very manicured section of flowerbeds and medicinal forests with three clans, a more overgrown section where there's as many dogs as people, an area with heavier (and more fire-proof) architecture with a lot more open spaces with dirt instead of grass floors, areas where most of the houses are cleverly blocked from having direct lines of sight to each other...

There's also, apparently, talking animal-shaped people. He'll be able to overhear people walking on the rooftops and having conversations with cats, someone's shoulder boa commenting on the sights, one dog that starts scolding a mixed group of human and canine children... The talking animals do at least usually have clothes and are usually bigger, but it's unclear from a quick survey if all animals here can talk and are simply reticent. (The talking animals are mostly found away from the thicker crowds of humans, and are relatively few and far between.)

It's lovely, especially for a city; he pays special attention to areas that look like somewhere Ertan might want to live (naturalistic, moderately crowded, ideally a water feature of some sort nearby) and also pauses to see if he can figure out what's up with the animal people - do they seem to be associated with particular humans, or are some of them going about their lives independently? Is there anything else unusual about them? Are other people treating random animals as potential people, or do they seem to be able to tell the difference?

Naturalistic, moderately crowded, with fountains or more likely creeks or even a river is findable. 

Most of them are associated with particular humans - the one he sees going about their separate business mentions running an errand for someone. Some of them seem able to use the shinobi techniques. People do not treat random animals as potential people.

Probably something in the same genre as wizards' familiars and druids' companions, then; that's convenient, that he won't have to explain Ertan's familiar from scratch.

He brings Ertan lunch, goes back to the market to look for the kinds of parchment and quills and ink additives that he wants, and generally has a nice afternoon, including a couple hours between translation spells spent trying to get a feel for the language by listening to passerby. After dinner he waits outside the inn for Tobirama.

Tobirama: appears very shortly thereafter. He even walks.

"Hello! Interesting day?"

"Yes. I got quite a lot done. You?"

"There's not many people happier than a cleric of Fharlanghn with a new place to explore," he grins. "And Ertan's had me figuring out whether we'll be able to get the things he needs to recreate his spellbook; there's a couple things I haven't found yet but it's going well so far."

He nods. "That's good. If you'll follow me, we can head over to where we'll be performing the healing experiments. We can talk while we walk, then."