She doesn't recognise that tree.
She's been here before, she's not that far from the estate, this isn't some unknown place. She must've taken a wrong turn, of course, but where? She should probably just try to retrace her steps, Jaol will be incredibly mad at her...
Eee!
(Tetsuma is surprised - because really who expects kisses when they're in geek mode - but very enthusiastic about kissing back. Because best girlfriend.)
Well Tetsuma should expect them because she is so hot when she's geeking out.
Yes. That.
"It's interesting how many plants and other foods are similar to ones I'm familiar with, you know. I still double checked the berries for poison, but I was able to fairly reliably guess which ones are safe to eat..."
"Not from the double checking! And the ones I was certain I knew I didn't get wrong, there were just a few that looked vaguely similar. I didn't serve you anything I'd been uncertain of, too."
"That'd be a bit of a silly way to die, wouldn't it? Though I am trained as a medic, so I could manage most common poisons. If it came up."
"But we're in another woooorld, there are all sorts of poisons you wouldn't knooooow," she says, sighing dramatically. "And in a horrible, silly accident: poof, dead."
"I think it'd actually work even on unfamiliar poisons! Though, yes, best not to test it." She fights the urge to giggle. "One benefit of all this testing though is that I think I might've found a nice paralytic. This world's definitely weird - paralytics are usually animal derived, not berries. Though I suspect that plant may've been slightly predatory..."
"It's actually based on a medical jutsu that identifies toxins, though I altered it for my wood manipulation so it's easier and does a more thorough analysis. It - essentially looks at the chemical structure of all the plant's parts, and at a basic level identifies known toxins, which have a distinct signature. The advanced version is for when you run into an unknown substance, and is a bit more thorough - it actually involves carefully introducing some of what you're testing's chakra to your own and tracking how your system reacts, then, if that checks out, introducing some of the actual substance in very small quantities and - pretty much seeing what happens."
"My version's a lot more thorough and safer, since the analysis happens in the plant itself - I introduce my chakra instead of the other way around, basically. But it only works on plants, I won't get enough feedback from other sources."
"Or did you mean how does the plant that tried to eat me work?"
Slightly sheepish grin. "I'm pretty sure the plant waits for animals to eat the berries, then fall paralyzed. Its roots seem to spread a good bit around it, and seem to be slightly mobile. I think it then wraps up paralyzed animals and then - sort of digests them, there was a half-dissolved deer-thing next to the plant, wrapped up in slowly shifting roots. It's a cool plant, has a more active chakra system than most, and I analyzed it a bit with my wood manipulation, I think it gets some feedback from its surroundings. Which has massive implications for my jutsu, if I could replicate that I could make living structures that'll react to their surroundings..."
She laughs. "I just find jutsu really interesting! And plants and animals, and somewhat medicine."
"Well, I don't know about this one exactly, but most paralytics are neurotoxins - they attack the spine and brain. We don't know much about the mechanisms, since things haven't been peaceful enough to establish hospitals or anything, but from testimony of survivors they seem to block the brain's ability to command the body." A pause. "This world's so advanced in many ways, maybe their medicine's better, too. When we finish with this mission I'd like to go to one of the universities, see if we can't get access to the libraries..."
"I'm not a book person - though admittedly I haven't had much of a chance to be one - but all that knowledge is just there - and so much of it can help my people. We really don't have public libraries, too. I'd - like to bring back books if we can, maybe have the first proper public library on the continent for our little nation."
"Definitely! Even if we can't do much about the wars, better medicine and agriculture will do so much."
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