#devon harris

So, for our medic boys in the Watch, if they had found someone that had been at Henry's scale in The Rescue (~7 inches tall) that wasn't from here, it would be a matter of getting them back to health and finding out all they could about how this person got there, and all things surrounding them.

Lionus, in particular, would want to be as helpful as possible.

This would, unfortunately, mean that he is keeping them a secret from the brass.

Lionus understands that any curiosity, regardless of personhood, would have to be reported to the scholars. The fact that it was a person (or at least, person-adjacent in most people's perspectives) and a foreigner, would compound on that. The person would have to be surrendered to the Crown in some form or another. Kendrick would be easy-enough to have follow along with the priorities of keeping this person safe and helping them in some way. Devon... Devon would have a lot of trouble with it.

At the end of the day, Devon follows the rules. He has a lot of faith in the systems he's a part of, and a deep love and respect for his country and his King. He knows that the protocol for a new animal or something that has surfaced on the shores is to report it. He knows that foreigners have to be taken in for interrogation. This isn't to say he wouldn't feel conflicted about it, especially if Lionus and Kendrick were both making their arguments for keeping this person out of the hands of the scholars and the capital in general, but it would be a very hard road to convince him not to follow that protocol.

Devon being extremely uncomfortable with the idea of a small person being handled would also contribute to a desire to make them... someone else's problem. Even he could recognize that that's more to do with his personal hangups than anything else, though.

I imagine in this situation, with the conflict and strain it would be putting on two of the top medics in the Watch, someone would have to bring it to the Commander. The decision from there would be his, and it could be a pretty tough sell for him not to follow protocol and at least alert the more proper authorities of what's been going on. If it were a more Watch-wide issue? Like with our boys from the Idiot Brigade? There would genuinely be a higher chance that the person would be kind of folded into the Watch as a whole while they tried to help them out. Miller and the lads especially would be reluctant to let the person go anywhere outside of the branch.

If the person had wound up being reported to the authorities? Well... the scholars would have put them through an embarrassing amount (and variety) of tests. Anything that came with them would've been studied at length, and there would be a chance that most of it would have wound up confiscated or possibly destroyed unless there was a strong advocate for why not to. Being smaller, it would be the opinion of the Erudites that there was nothing that the person/creature could "need" that they would not be able to provide better and in more abundance, with ease. The erudites can shove it.

After that, what happened to the small person would likely be similar to Gulliver's adventures in Brobdingnag (original work). Would likely become a curiosity for the highest ranked/titled person who showed interest and would be shown around as a pet/conversation piece. Something that would make Lionus' blood boil and his stomach churn.