Her intonation is impressive, and despite a lifetime of being worn down by Shawn's photographic memory exact tone reproduction catches his ear. But, he lets it slide in favor of something he knows he can give answers for.
"Mmm, fun ones." He takes a short sip of his wine, letting the flavor roll over his tongue as he considered the list. "Uh, lawyer - is kind of like someone who presents your side of an argument before a judge when you're accused of something. Notoriously shady in my world and not the kind of people you trust. An asylum... is..." he stammers, looking for sensitive way to explain something he's honestly not always sensitive about. "It's where people that have psychiatric disorders - which is kind of a nice way of saying crazy that's dangerous - are looked after by doctors and nurses that try to help them. Ideally. It doesn't always work out that way, but it's supposed to."
He tries to recall the rest of the words, plucking out another chocolate in the process. "Going undercover is something we do sometimes, really we just pretend we're someone else as part of a police operation to get information that we couldn't get going in there as ourselves. If that makes any sense. It's sort of like acting," or lying, but he's not about to get that harsh; "but with a goal in mind. Uh, encyclopedic..." he pops the chocolate in his mouth, lapping over his thumb - brows knitting together again. "When it comes to medication... medicine, kind of like herbs and compounds for treating illnesses but instead of like a potion like you're used to it's in a tablet or a capsule or sometimes a liquid or a cream... it's sort of a broad word. But I know a lot about those compounds like what drugs are used to treat what and what's in them and what they interact with and that sort of thing. See, my day job... when I'm not working with Shawn, is talking doctors into taking samples for their patients - sick people and the like - of medication that the company I work for produces."
When tries to break it down it really all sounds much more complicated than it is, and he's never really thought about it much before.
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Date: 2012-06-02 06:01 am (UTC)"Mmm, fun ones." He takes a short sip of his wine, letting the flavor roll over his tongue as he considered the list. "Uh, lawyer - is kind of like someone who presents your side of an argument before a judge when you're accused of something. Notoriously shady in my world and not the kind of people you trust. An asylum... is..." he stammers, looking for sensitive way to explain something he's honestly not always sensitive about. "It's where people that have psychiatric disorders - which is kind of a nice way of saying crazy that's dangerous - are looked after by doctors and nurses that try to help them. Ideally. It doesn't always work out that way, but it's supposed to."
He tries to recall the rest of the words, plucking out another chocolate in the process. "Going undercover is something we do sometimes, really we just pretend we're someone else as part of a police operation to get information that we couldn't get going in there as ourselves. If that makes any sense. It's sort of like acting," or lying, but he's not about to get that harsh; "but with a goal in mind. Uh, encyclopedic..." he pops the chocolate in his mouth, lapping over his thumb - brows knitting together again. "When it comes to medication... medicine, kind of like herbs and compounds for treating illnesses but instead of like a potion like you're used to it's in a tablet or a capsule or sometimes a liquid or a cream... it's sort of a broad word. But I know a lot about those compounds like what drugs are used to treat what and what's in them and what they interact with and that sort of thing. See, my day job... when I'm not working with Shawn, is talking doctors into taking samples for their patients - sick people and the like - of medication that the company I work for produces."
When tries to break it down it really all sounds much more complicated than it is, and he's never really thought about it much before.