[IC] Lost in Dreams (Chandra)

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Chandra is able to help in ways that she knows how. Being a tidy individual helps. After the first day of not eating and then buying food on the second, she is ravenously hungry, and savors every bite. She manages to make herself welcome with woman overrun with sons. Its still very cramped, and though people are glad she helps out, they can't wait for their space back.

She gets a job as a typing up the dictations of an old doctor who was studying hawfax medicine. The man could not type, and was delighted to find someone who could spell medical terms without specific instructions, and who typed rather than used short hand. The Hawfax had been stingy with most technology, but medical know how was freely given and services sold. The man was trying to reconsile the medicine and write British (and human) -centric instruction guides on how to use the techniques. Some of it is still scarily primative. Other parts of it are quite modern, though everything modern has been renamed. Its intense work, with him frequently saying "No, No, that's wrong, cross it out. How shall I say this?..."