frost_jewel | 16. [voiced]

[It’s been a long few days since the Kin’corrans went “home”; Mia doesn’t remember most of them. Since the 31st she’s been, for the most part, sound asleep in the battledome clinic, trying to recover from…well, everything. Dealing with the fire didn’t help, leaving her spent and dehydrated and coughing. The time she’s spent awake, though, convinced her that things in the village were getting back to normal.

So her first mission of the day, after waking and sorting herself out, is to find something to do that will alleviate this boredom and, just perhaps, help make her case for just going home to lie about there instead.]

I know it has been very difficult and busy in the village just recently. Given the date, it will only stay busy. If it is at all possible, though, I would ask a small favor: would anyone be willing to bring a few books from the library to the battle dome clinic? I promise to return them at the first opportunity. …Once I’m done with them, that is.

While I am thinking about it…well, I would not mind a little company either. I want to hear that everyone is all right.

[Missing out on more than a day always leaves her too disoriented for her liking.]

[[ooc: ~~We interrupt the delicious intro train to bring you~~ If you work in the clinic and would like to have that argument about going home, step right up! She's a patient woman.]]

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[See Sneasel I told you this was a- what do you mean we should still see her? Come on, she-]

I'm guessing you're full up on company, too. [This is just a little embarrassing, okay? ...Well yeah we could always just come over without asking but that's-]

If you haven't had a ton of volunteers already, I'd be happy to help. Which one titles were you looking for or was it more genre-related?

I'll drink to that. [Tea sip.]

Thank you, Xion. [She's created something of a very busy day for herself, but that's okay by her for now.] Would after lunch be all right?

Oh, I did not have any specific things in mind. And I already have quite enough books, but thank you all the same.

You...swim to catch the fish?

Most of the time, yes. For some reason we kept getting new patients even though we ran out of new injured refugees.

[Hear that? That's what she thinks about street brawls and subterfuge when you could be living with each other for a really long time.]

[Partially true. She would never have guessed so many people would want to visit.]

Do you want to visit? I know you don't like the clinic and I would never force you.

[He does realize that what she hears in that is that all of the people he grew up with are dead, right?]

I feel the same way.

[This quiet is just as good as anything. If she isn't careful it will make her drowsy all over again. The tea in her cup is almost gone before she says anything else.]

You know, this is the second time something like this has happened to me here, and I am almost afraid that the people I live with are going to think I do this all the time.

If you have plans for the day, it's best to finish them first.

[That is because they are and have been for 11 years for him. He and Joshua are the only survivors. And then most people he knows after that are not exactly people he is friendly with.

At least he didn't include himself among those who should be able to rest in peace? He's quite dead as well.]

And we wouldn't want our loved ones to show up even in this village as well.

[And of course while he's been talking on the journal, he's on his way over to the Battle Dome now since he has the book he was looking for.]

[He'll be ready with a refill once she puts down the cup. And then a refill for him as well.]

Mmn. Yeah. That last draft had you pretty wrung out... and that... wasn't all that long ago. But the people who know you should understand that both circumstances were pretty extreme.

Though if they do, you'll be in good company.

[Given a certain someone gets the overworked comments all the time. Hazard of being a medic.]

No, of course not. [Even if she misses them terribly.] I would never want them to go through some of these things.

[It happened on a mission once also, but those were extenuating circumstances and it resolved itself largely before she walked home.]

I know. We're terrible, aren't we? [We, doctors/healers in general. It was always a careful lesson of her father's that she not work herself to death, because what good are you to the people then? In times of stubborn-hero-friend-ordering-around, it's also convenient not to be a hypocrite.]

...Suppose some day a similar thing happens to us? To this village.

I can bring you some books, Mia. And I'd be happy to visit with you as much as you'd like!

[Giving Grune the first job is...probably not a good idea.]

[He understands that very well. Among those people who he grew up with who are now dead is his fiancee. He very much misses her, but would be scared to have her arrive here because he wouldn't be able to protect her from drafts and experiments.]

The drafts especially. We know very well that a lack of combat skills means nothing.

[And now he walks in to the Battle Dome clinic with two books in his arms. Amusingly, he doesn't appear to have his journal with him for all that he was just talking to her over that and his approach was quite silent as well. Of course, Mia likely can figure out what he's doing since she's seen his Body-Split Craft before, just hasn't seen him use it outside of battle like this.]

[When he appears in her doorway as his voice is saying that last part to her, it's definitely startling. She sits up straighter, glancing from the book to the visitor with a frown.]

All right. Which of you is real?

[Even though some of them would have been hard to explain, Tsuzuki would have gotten the hint if she said "fire".]

You fainted? My partner does that sometimes. ...Hey, if you want, I can probably bring you something from the bakery. That helps sometimes.

Not exactly. [Not in a dangerous way, if there is such a thing as a safe way to pass out. In her memory she made it to the clinic on her own, in some capacity.] But close enough. It has a lot to do with the fire.

[Oh? Baked goods?]

What a kind offer. Something light, please and thank you.

At this point I could possibly have my own library. No more books are necessary, Grune, but I would love your company all the same.

[Passing out sucks, in any case. That's why he's so quick to offer something to cheer her up with. His shoulders tense at the mention of the fire, but that's something they can talk about once he's gotten the treats.]

Hmmmm. They have those cream-filled little French things. Parfaits? Or do you want something with berries?

I would prefer fruit, if it isn't too much trouble. [He's already doing her a favor, no need to be picky.]

I prefer cakes with cinnamon. [Don't get him started, he might rant.]

Oh! Oh, I know! It's apple pie season!

I am positive I cannot eat a whole pie. If you do bring that, it will have to be to share with the others here.

I was hoping you'd say that.

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