That brought up a number of things to address, and Raine took them all in turn, not particularly worried about the mock anger. Somehow she was reasonably sure she'd know if she spotted Larrikin genuinely angry. She ticked her points off on the fingers of one hand as she came to them, firm but not particularly vehement. "First, I'm a healer, not a doctor; second, experimentation and study of sentients is to be done only ethically and with consent, or I'm little better than the Imperial Research Academy; third, I'm not human; fourth..."

That derailed her a moment. "I can't say I know about 'all that hysteria idiocy,'" Raine said, a little cautiously. "You should be aware, while many people here are from an Earth, and thus have common ground, my world has no such commonality. Many basic concepts translate, but the finer points of culture and technology often miss. Frankly, we have more of a problem with race than gender bias."