"How- But where did you-" Coraline begins, a little bewildered yet terribly impressed with the idea that anybody only a few years older than her could already be trained for stuff like that!

Did she watch a bunch of emergency room shows? It was obvious from the looks of her room that Mikan did a lot of medical reading, but practice really wasn't the sort of thing you could just pick up from books? Or was it?

"Were your parents doctors?" She asks nosily, shifting from foot to foot and glancing briefly back at the door, just to be completely sure she wasn't about to get herself locked in with a crazy person weilding a tool that could slice right through human bone. "Did you grow up in a war where lots of soldiers needed their arms hacked off?"