[ maybe cold is the right word, after all. cold and methodical... zero just grins through a slightly bloody mouth. ] Zero. Come on, this is nothing. I've had a hell of a lot worse, I'd tell you about it but it might even make you hurl.
[ she has the vague awareness that making her new love of her life vomit from queasiness probably isn't the right way to go about things, which is actually more consideration than she'd give to male lovers. she may as well vomit right at guys' feet, feel relatively indifferent towards them if they'd do the same to her, and then climb right on top of them afterwards.
but she cared less about guys than she did reisen, so-- ] Anyway. The important thing is-- [ she wipes blood-stained white petals from the corner of her mouth, looking vaguely nauseous still. ] Hey. I'm Zero.
[gurl... she looks back down to her clipboard and scribbles something down. nothing terribly important, just another excuse to tear her eyes away from this mess and make note of— patient is so hardcore, so badass, feels no pain wow.
that question though. she gives Zero an incredulous look and slowly nods.]
I would hope so, considering I'll be giving you your medicine at the end of this visit, Miss Zero.
[no introduction from raisin bran, too bad. she peers into the trash bin at the bloody flowers, tentatively poking at one with the back of her pen. just normal flowers, then. seemingly normal? well, can't be normal if Zero's barfing them up.]
Have you ingested anything... unusual, recently? Or can you think of any other possible cause to your condition?
I didn't come here for this trash. [ indicating the flowers in the trash--they're quite beautiful, even bloodstained, but she actually has a bias against flowers. ] I have no idea what's going on with that. I came here for this. [ indicating the flower in her socket, while staring reisen straight in the eye with hers.
there may or may not be danger in her going insane, because she might already be there. ]
If I'm contacting another shitty flower disease, that's just my luck. I'm pretty sure I didn't eat anything shady. [ like, uh, rotten meat. but she keeps eye contact with reisen, wetting her lips. ]
[IS THAT A THREAT. she's assuming it's a threat. it's totally a threat, isn't it!! slowly, she leans back in her seat, fingers tightly gripping the edges of her clipboard. most of the humans from the village know better than to eat any of the rabbits around the bamboo forest, but Zero obviously isn't from the village.]
The rabbits here are under protection, you should know. You can't eat them.
[or her. but hopefully that can go unsaid.]
W-well, as for the flower in your... eye, I could try removing it for you.
[ just because she has an appetite for rabbit doesn't mean...! she rolls her one non-cursed eye. ]
I wasn't talking about eating you. Not in that way, anyway. [ what other way could she possibly mean?? and, on second thought-- ] Probably, depending on how hungry I am...
Why don't we forget about the flower? I don't even think you guys can remove it if you tried. Trust me, I've tried. I didn't even feel like coming here for that, I was just flown in here by a dumbass.
What, I just got here and you want me to leave? What happened to your... [ waves hand vaguely, whatever analogue to the hippocratic oath goes here-- ] Your doctors' oath or whatever? Just because I'm skeptical that you guys can fix this doesn't mean you'll leave me here dying of whatever bullshit disease I have, right? [ not that she actually cares, but whatever. ]
Also, I really have no idea what the coughing... flower shit is supposed to be. Honest. That's new.
Hey, what kinda customer service is this? What, it's not allowed to hit on the bunnies? I-- [ another coughing attack, she clutches at her throat in slight alarm.
this attack hits harder than the intial one, her body visible struggles with growth in her throat. she claps a hand over her mouth, however, as if determined not to lose any more dignity in front of reisen than she has to.
creeping vines slip out between her fingers however. that's--grosser than the initial attack. ]
[ugh— she can't just ignore that. goes against policy, or whatever. she rushes to Zero's side and takes her wrist, trying to pry her hand away from her mouth.]
Don't try to hold it all in!
[just barf it out, gurl. even if, yeah, it's pretty gross.]
I'm not-- [ she's probably protesting in reflex, but she lets go of her mouth in something more like surprise when reisen touches her.
that just intensifies the effects of the disease, though. fuck, she's being touched--
she doubles over with a pained noise, clutching at her neck as spiked vines and white flowers grow from her throat out her mouth, spilling out onto the ground--she actually looks a little panicked. can't breathe, with airway restricted by flora. ]
she recoils as more flowers and vines erupt from Zero's mouth, genuinely taken aback. she's never seen anything like this before. Eirin, maybe, she might know what to do, but she isn't even around at the moment.
wonderful!] W-Wait here!
[aaand she's running away. Reisen ran away?! no, she returns quickly with a dusty plastic bottle, and thrusts it at Zero's hands. it's pesticide.
like, actual pesticide. maybe the plants can be killed like normal plants, then it'll be easy to give Zero an antidote to the poisons before they hurt her system... or something.]
[ ... she doesn't actually know what the hell this is supposed to be. bottle... even if it is medicine it might just be difficult to swallow anything with plants in the way.
she does try to drag the trash can back to her, buckles painfully to her knees and doubles over it, grabs a thorned vine from her own throat in an attempt to rip it bodily out because she can't actually breathe. like yanking a spined whip or something from her own mouth, her own bodily--it tears at her mouth and throat, the plant draws out slick with blood but it seems to be narrowing. zero looks like she's struggling not to black out or scream from pain, if screaming would be muffled by flora. ]
[damn, if she keeps doing that her throat's gonna be like ground beef by the time it's over. OKAY THEN, PLAN B, TIME FOR GODMODEY 2HU SHIT.
she grabs Zero by the shoulders and firmly pushes her to the floor (it's not gay if it's an emergency shhh). the vine scratches at Reisen's wrists and arms as she moves her hands to grasp Zero's head, holding her still, practically sitting on top of her. she never really incorporates her abilities in the treatment of patients, but Zero's gonna seriously fuck up her insides if she keeps doing that.]
Look. [into her eyes. calm down!! she can't actually get rid of the pain, but she can trick Zero's brain into thinking it doesn't hurt anymore. like a tranq without the hassle of needles.
once Zero stops struggling, Reisen slowly reaches for the bottle.]
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[ she has the vague awareness that making her new love of her life vomit from queasiness probably isn't the right way to go about things, which is actually more consideration than she'd give to male lovers. she may as well vomit right at guys' feet, feel relatively indifferent towards them if they'd do the same to her, and then climb right on top of them afterwards.
but she cared less about guys than she did reisen, so-- ] Anyway. The important thing is-- [ she wipes blood-stained white petals from the corner of her mouth, looking vaguely nauseous still. ] Hey. I'm Zero.
You work here?
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that question though. she gives Zero an incredulous look and slowly nods.]
I would hope so, considering I'll be giving you your medicine at the end of this visit, Miss Zero.
[no introduction from raisin bran, too bad. she peers into the trash bin at the bloody flowers, tentatively poking at one with the back of her pen. just normal flowers, then. seemingly normal? well, can't be normal if Zero's barfing them up.]
Have you ingested anything... unusual, recently? Or can you think of any other possible cause to your condition?
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there may or may not be danger in her going insane, because she might already be there. ]
If I'm contacting another shitty flower disease, that's just my luck. I'm pretty sure I didn't eat anything shady. [ like, uh, rotten meat. but she keeps eye contact with reisen, wetting her lips. ]
But I might just be in the mood for rabbit.
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The rabbits here are under protection, you should know. You can't eat them.
[or her. but hopefully that can go unsaid.]
W-well, as for the flower in your... eye, I could try removing it for you.
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I wasn't talking about eating you. Not in that way, anyway. [ what other way could she possibly mean?? and, on second thought-- ] Probably, depending on how hungry I am...
Why don't we forget about the flower? I don't even think you guys can remove it if you tried. Trust me, I've tried. I didn't even feel like coming here for that, I was just flown in here by a dumbass.
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[Eeeiiirriiiiiin... where is she...!]
If you don't want to be here then you can go!
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Also, I really have no idea what the coughing... flower shit is supposed to be. Honest. That's new.
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[rabbits are friends not food! not to be vored!!]
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[ she wets her lips, 100% innocently, obviously. ] Want me to show you?
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oh......
oh. now she gets it. Reisen's face turns an interesting shade of red though her expression doesn't change much. she looks away.]
Nooo... thank you, that's quite alright. Well! I can just give you a generic prescription and send you on your way.
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What's it gonna be, water?
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[Reisen's already headed for the doorway, motioning to it a bit too impatiently. get ouuuuuut....!!]
This way to the exit, Miss Zero.
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this attack hits harder than the intial one, her body visible struggles with growth in her throat. she claps a hand over her mouth, however, as if determined not to lose any more dignity in front of reisen than she has to.
creeping vines slip out between her fingers however. that's--grosser than the initial attack. ]
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Don't try to hold it all in!
[just barf it out, gurl. even if, yeah, it's pretty gross.]
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that just intensifies the effects of the disease, though. fuck, she's being touched--
she doubles over with a pained noise, clutching at her neck as spiked vines and white flowers grow from her throat out her mouth, spilling out onto the ground--she actually looks a little panicked. can't breathe, with airway restricted by flora. ]
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she recoils as more flowers and vines erupt from Zero's mouth, genuinely taken aback. she's never seen anything like this before. Eirin, maybe, she might know what to do, but she isn't even around at the moment.
wonderful!] W-Wait here!
[aaand she's running away. Reisen ran away?! no, she returns quickly with a dusty plastic bottle, and thrusts it at Zero's hands. it's pesticide.
like, actual pesticide. maybe the plants can be killed like normal plants, then it'll be easy to give Zero an antidote to the poisons before they hurt her system... or something.]
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she does try to drag the trash can back to her, buckles painfully to her knees and doubles over it, grabs a thorned vine from her own throat in an attempt to rip it bodily out because she can't actually breathe. like yanking a spined whip or something from her own mouth, her own bodily--it tears at her mouth and throat, the plant draws out slick with blood but it seems to be narrowing. zero looks like she's struggling not to black out or scream from pain, if screaming would be muffled by flora. ]
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she grabs Zero by the shoulders and firmly pushes her to the floor (it's not gay if it's an emergency shhh). the vine scratches at Reisen's wrists and arms as she moves her hands to grasp Zero's head, holding her still, practically sitting on top of her. she never really incorporates her abilities in the treatment of patients, but Zero's gonna seriously fuck up her insides if she keeps doing that.]
Look. [into her eyes. calm down!! she can't actually get rid of the pain, but she can trick Zero's brain into thinking it doesn't hurt anymore. like a tranq without the hassle of needles.
once Zero stops struggling, Reisen slowly reaches for the bottle.]