"He looked well when I saw him fight during the hunt. That was a relief. It is... difficult here. These different creatures with different traits and strengths." She let some of her frustration bleed through in her voice. "I don't involve myself much with night hunts but I run into similar problems in medicine. It's frustrating. In some ways, it feels like you have to learn things from scratch all over again."

Which must be worse for the fighters; at least she could rely on the medical literature and the experience of the old pharmacist she was working for. Underlying principles based on the four humors rather than yin and yang may have been different but mixing concoctions following a recipe remained the same. There were hardly going to be any wizened cultivators around to school them on how to best use their powers against the local threats.

"I suppose it doesn't matter. I assume most of us won't be staying for long, it will be just a passing frustration."