FTEC, Thursday (8/4)

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Scully had awoken cranky, but determined. Time to get to the bottom of her transformation!

She stomped off into town, and shot at two teal deer who tried to stop her from going inside the clinic. She took a sample of their blood as they limped away. (And drank some of it, but not from the sample. You had to keep your materials separate to avoid contamination.)

The nurses were staying waaaay on the other side of the Clinic from her, as she worked on her tests.

"Thith ith ridiculuth," she muttered through her just-starting-to-emerge fangs, as she broke yet another beaker. Really, those things didn't grow on trees!

Then she was absorbed in Science again.

[ocd on its way up!]

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Re: Your Medical Overlord

[trigons_child]

Just call her Typhoid Raven?

"I have taken the infection into myself already and it has not sickened me," Raven pointed out. At least not that she'd noticed; she could be healing herself so rapidly she might not know it.

But she didn't want to argue in favor of taking the evil rock into her Soul-Self -- at least not yet -- so she nodded. "I will not do so," she promised. "But I want to do something."

Re: Your Medical Overlord

[glacial_queen]

"You and me both," Karla said, trying once again to think of something, anything they could do. It was like bailing out a sinking ship with their bare hands. "We don't have enough information, that's the problem. And unless we figure something out, I don't know what's going to happen to those who are already infected."

Re: Your Medical Overlord

[trigons_child]

"Maybe there is more to be learned from the rock," Raven said, chewing on her lip. She wasn't sure who she'd picked that habit up from, but Fandom made her do it far too often.

"But to investigate it risks infection. What about the land around it? It has become corrupted as well, has it not?"

Re: Your Medical Overlord

[glacial_queen]

"Darkness, yes," Karla groaned, shifting her shoulders to loosen the knots in them. "I tried to heal that, too. It resisted, just like the illness in people." She blew her bangs out of her face. "Maybe I would have had a better chance if I'd had more time, but then a giant thingy decided I looked delicious. I had to explain to him I was anything but."

Re: Your Medical Overlord

[trigons_child]

Raven had shifted one hand to Karla's shoulder, drawing the ache out of her muscles there. That, at least, she could do. But at her next words, she was gripped by sudden fear. "Karla!" she said. "You should not have gone out alone to do this! What if you had been infected as well?"

Re: Your Medical Overlord

[glacial_queen]

"I was shielded!" Karla protested.

"...Eventually."

Re: Your Medical Overlord

[trigons_child]

See Raven's sad face, Karla. Look at the wibbling you are making her do!

"Please, promise me you will not do such a thing again?" she pleaded.

Re: Your Medical Overlord

[glacial_queen]

Damn it. Karla caused Raven-wibbles. Now she felt guilty. "I promise," she said, hanging her head. "I didn't mean to," she mumbled.

Re: Your Medical Overlord

[trigons_child]

"I know you did not," Raven said, squeezing Karla tightly. "I just do not know what I would do if you were to fall ill as well."

"Totally lose her shit" might be an apt description.

Re: Your Medical Overlord

[glacial_queen]

"I won't," Karla said, completely ignorant of how stupid she would be in a few hours. "I can't afford to endanger myself, I know. There's too much riding on me staying well."

Re: Your Medical Overlord

[trigons_child]

Raven better never find out about that, Karla. Or she would never hear the end of it.

Except Raven was a huge hypocrite and would have done almost the exact same thing if she'd been in Karla's place.

"We should know better than to return to Fandom in August," she said lightly. "Things like this always seem to happen." Granted, not as awful as two years ago, but still.

Re: Your Medical Overlord

[glacial_queen]

Karla nodded, trying to find a bit of comfort in that. Things got awful. But they always got better, too. Surely this time would be no different.

"Thanks, Raven. I needed to hear that."

More than she'd known.