The door slid open and Mallaidh was no longer alone. 

Two entered, they were both chatting. One was cross, the other flippant.

"Just give it a few more days. You will get used to it! You might even [i]like[/i] it!" The flippant one was an older man with scruffy sand-and-salt hair. He wore a black vest that had hundreds of pockets, though, perhaps Mallaidh would not recognize [i]zippers[/i] and see only a vest with strange metallic lines patterned about it. 

"I do not [i]want[/i] to get used to it." This was a woman. Her look was a bit more striking... Usually it was only her fire red hair that attracted notice, but now it was burn marks and bandages wrapped around the right side of her torso and arm. Some of the skin was showing, looking wrinkled and dry and melted all at the same time. Most of it was covered up with linen bandages. Her right eye was even covered by a linen bandanna that crowned her head and was angled to cover the right eye. Her right arm was wrapped and in a sling. If she was experiencing pain from her wounds she hid it well. Mallaidh might recognize the grit and gait of a trained warrior.

"How many times have I told you..." She continued. "... That I would rather be [i]dead[/i] than to be... be... an [i]abomination[/i]!" She fumed. 

"Your not an abomination!" The man smiled, but looked away from the woman when he said. "Just... [i]Your arm[/i]..."

"[i]And my eye[/i]."

"... And your eye! That's right. Say, you don't need to cover that up. It should be working by now..." He reached out to remove the bandage.

She slapped his hand away with her good-arm. And began speaking in a language that Mallaidh did not understand, however, even someone deaf would know that it was long planned and long deserved lecture full of expletives. 

The man's next method of disengaging from the enraged woman, was to acknowledge Mallaidh.

"Heya, kid!" Twain waved in a friendly fashion. "I am Doc-Tor-Twain, and this is Rozalind! Winston told us so much about you! Come along with us now and we will get this show on the road!"