:- Oh! Is it like fudge?: Melody tries to push across as much of her sense of 'fudge' as she can, appearance and flavor. She has very little idea how it's made but she thinks it's made from sugar. :We have fudge: 

She can try to track down the packaging. It's mostly piled on the counter because she wasn't sure what else to do with it. 

"We have fudge too! It is not totally unlike caramel, I guess! - the trash can is here under the sink, but at least now I don't have to dig through it." She reads off the flavors.

Several of them contained chocolate! One of them had caramel in the custard.

Melody ate most of these yesterday or earlier and was not maximally paying attention at the time, but she's pretty sure she didn't recognize the chocolate flavor. So probably either Velgarth doesn't have it, or else they do but it's not available in Valdemar? Lots of things aren't available in Valdemar. There's the one herb that grows in Seejay and mysteriously helps a lot with depression and they only learned about it because of Vanyel's trip down south for– ...for reasons. 

"I wonder if we have that one! Kelta might know, or be able to find out, if you could draw her a picture or something."

:I can do that. ...Huh, I somehow feel like it would be weird if our worlds had all the same plants, even though I've already noticed that you have bread which I would guess is made of wheat, and more importantly your world has humans that seem very similar to Velgarth humans except for the whole not having Gifts. ....Arda also has humans now but their gods made them from scratch. We're not sure why. Possibly they just got artistic inspiration from the Velgarth humans showing up, though there were maybe prophecies about it that predated all of that: 

"Yeah, that's really weird and I don't know what to make of it," says Dree, sweeping the wrappers into the trash.

:A lot of things about Arda are really baffling! Their world is flat apparently, not a planet at all - and they didn't used to have a sun, one continent had these two enormous trees that made sunlight and everywhere else it was dark, but then the evil god ate the trees - or something? it was confusing - so it was dark everywhere. After the war ended their other gods made a sun and a moon, it really startled a lot of people, but as far as I know they're still flat: 

Pause. 

:...Sorry, that's probably going to be more interesting to someone who studies how planets and suns and things work: 

"...honestly I kind of expect an astronomer to mostly be really annoyed that a world works like that in real life."

:I think Leareth was annoyed about it! He didn't exactly have a lot of time to investigate it during the war but - he's studied astronomy in Velgarth, he had opinions on how planets and suns work, and apparently none of that holds in Arda and we still don't know why: 

"Well, if the naturesouls are doing it with magic that explains it but not really elegantly."

:Not really, no–:

There is a noise from the other room. 

:- Oh, sorry, I should go check on Leareth: 

Leareth is pointlessly crying again because he just tried something three times in a row and it failed in three different equally confusing and unhelpful ways! 

...He is also, while still crying, trying very hard to navigate to his email account and start writing an email to Shory to ask her what to do about this. 

....Melody is maybe going to just hover at a distance and observe, since Leareth is apparently trying to do reasonable things about this and doesn't seem in excessive distress, and also he has his support dog right there. 

Forgiver is licking his elbow diligently.

Leareth pets her a few times but mostly his hands are busy. (He fit in some typing-game practice before diving into programming today, and he's still really quite bad at typing on a keyboard but he is so diligently practicing doing it with both hands in the approximately correct positions anyway.) 

He manages to send Shory an email attempting to describe his problem. It is horrendously badly spelled but will maybe hopefully convey his problem and the question he's asking? 

Melody is so proud of Leareth about this.

She eases herself back out of the room and looks over at Dree. :Sorry. Er, was there anything else you'd wanted to cover today?: 

"Is there any other profession you want me to source one of to bring here?"

:It sounded like it might be helpful to talk to a pharmacist? Since in your world that's an entirely different specialty, even for purely mental health things, and also really effective: 

"Sure. Do you want me to pick one out for theoretical shop talk or to talk about your stimulant and sleeping pill situations?"

:Oh, hmm. I had more been thinking of the first one just now, but probably it would be good to get actual in-person advice about the second thing as well. I guess neither one is very urgent. Probably the second one is a higher priority from our perspective, but if pharmacists in your world want to know more about Mindhealing and find out how I can help with their research or whatnot, I'm happy to do that: 

"I'll mention both and see if there's anyone with conveniently both skillsets."

:Sounds good!:

"Anything else for today?"

:I don't think so? ...I am admittedly at a bit of a loss for what to do with myself while we only have one laptop, since Leareth wants to use it most of the time and I'm generally giving him first priority on it, but I don't expect that's something you can necessarily solve for me: 

"Well, if everything goes according to plan you'll have another tomorrow."