Vena realizes he's sitting up and casts around distractedly before getting into the chair at the Sister Apothecary's desk. She can see the man isn't talking down to her. Some people do, here, some don't. There are a lot of different backgrounds represented in the Sisterhood and different views on the young come with it. Usually it's good to be told how it really is but it's nice sometimes to pretend to be safe and like things will all be okay, too. Vena is well aware of how little power she has out there.

"My teacher says the only rules in battle are in peoples' heads and you can break them anyway." Variations on 'Lashan says' make up a fair amount of what Vena has to say. "Did you think we were your enemy 'cause we had weapons?"

She frowns more deeply. "But we have to have weapons. People will attack us if we don't, too." Usually being armed and having tall, imposing Lashan up front scares off people who think they're easy prey.