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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I getcha. Sometimes working the clinic, while not thankless, is definitely busy. Besides, I don't mind doing this for you, especially considering how much you've pushed yourself this past week or two.

Hell, you deserve a vacation, not just a rest.

[All at once she remembers an unusually cold, reflective moment with a boy she knows: "Heroes don't get vacations."]

Something like that...I would feel like I was abandoning my responsibilities.

...A healer's work is never done, huh? But don't forget, you have to watch over your own well being too. I can see how you might think of it as ditching your work, but sometimes to help others you have to help yourself too. You push too far, and you won't be able to help anyone anyway.

Wouldn't keeping yourself well in quieter times be a responsibility too?

I know all of those things, Adell. Why do you think I have not just decided to leave on my own?

[It's the quiet voice she'd use with her apprentices when they were making an argument she already knew the answer to.]

That is not at all what I meant.

That's you being responsible, yes. But I meant that you also have a responsibility to have some fun, quiet, downtime that doesn't start with you wearing yourself down to the point of collapsing. Sometimes getting away, even for only a couple of days, can give you a better recharge than just bedrest.

You always worry about me pushing too hard in training and being reckless in fights. And while I admire your strength and dedicattion to helping people... I worry about you too, you know. You're one of the kindest and most caring people I've ever met. I just... don't want you to get really sick or something.

[The lot of you need to decide which side of this you are really going to argue for. Is this what happens when someone makes the sensible and otherwise unheard-of decision to actually rest when told?]

It's true, I overestimated what I could do under those power constraints. That was my mistake.

...I don't work myself to exhaustion regularly. That's part of being responsible; I try to keep all of those things in mind.

[Adell listens to that first admission, but has to say something about it. But even despite what he says, it's not demeaning. There's a great deal of respect and admiration in his tone, and it's impossible to miss.]

I doubt even with a right estimate that it would've stopped you from helping anyone who needed it.

[...But then his tone gets softer and more apologetic. He kind of realized how pushy he was being.]

...I didn't think you did it regularly. Don't get me wrong. I just think a couple of extra days off now and then wouldn't hurt. That's all. I'm sorry if I upset you. That's not what I meant to do. I just... was being kind of thoughtless in saying it.

Edited 2012-09-04 19:11 (UTC)