[color=c4df9b]"Taking first, Rylia? I'll relieve you after three hours or so, then."[/color] I remark from the main pen as I begin to carry away the understandably irate ewe I've been restraining for Csenge's control group blood sample. She's squirming a little in my grasp, but I outweigh her by at least double, so she's got no choice but to deal with the indignity until I return her to the main cohort. Go run home, little wool shrub, and don't stay out too late. This place isn't as safe as it used to be.

[color=c4df9b]"We wouldn't want you running an all-nighter. If we do track this curse down, I'd want burning element of the party at full strength. Doesn't really matter who takes over for me, I don't believe, so we can stretch my shift if need be. I've gotten pretty used to watching sheep over the past couple hours."[/color]

It's not like most curses, as far as anything I've heard about them, really respond to being shellacked in a useful or even tangible way. If I want to talk about understanding weaknesses, I'd be remiss to not note that I'm increasingly likely to have drawn the short end of the stick on this one— if the seemingly shrinking chance of this being livestock predation by some large carnivore end up falling through, then eyes and ears are just about all I've got.

That and manhandling the livestock in question. Still, as the newbie here, I'd be served well by keeping myself keyed into the different processes that are currently out of my scope. For all I know, I might at some point learn I too have a background in the investigative or arcane processes. Might find I've got a knack for the vials portion of all of Csenge's sample-collecting, too.

If you're serious about learning from people, pay attention to how [i]they[/i] learn things.