[okay! what kind of wound are we looking at here! jiuqing will set to getting it cleaned and bandaged. i am guessing it's scraped knuckles or something from the punching but i'll be honest my mind is a blur there could have been something else i just forgot.]
[Definitely some scrapes on the knuckles, but there are a few burned areas from the color magma that Malik melted into splattered on her arms and chest.]
...Besides, regardless of having siblings or not, it was hard on all of us. It wasn't like we walked in that place expecting we'd have to end the suffering of one of our own.
[they'd walked in there expecting to watch one of their own fight to the death with one of his closest friends, instead. and for a brief moment, when the pair of them had walked through the archway together, she'd thought that was it. that they were free. that, somehow, they'd avoided any further bloodshed this week.
she couldn't have been more wrong.]
...there has to be some way to prevent... these refractions. There must be.
I want there to be. But at this point...it does seem to be involved with emotions, and the imbalance of color. With emotion...well. We get plenty of that every week. Its easier said than done.
[Its not like they can bottle it up, either. Look at what happened to Malik.]
...and it's not as though we can make ourselves not feel, either. We might be able to keep ourselves from acting on our feelings in normal circumstances, but that doesn't make the feelings any less real.
[...malik is still dead. there's no changing that. and jiuqing can't help but think that, being refracted, he probably had something to do with chinatsu's death.
but... at least he wasn't able to kill anyone else, before he went.]
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[YEAH DO YOU NOT REMEMBER HER STAYING BY HERSELF IN THE MEDBAY AFTER EVERYONE UP AND DECIDED NOT TO STAY!!! she will tpk u all heal thyselves]
...Only a bit. I'll get some bandages.
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Su. You're injured.
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Even if I'm injured, I'm still a doctor. I wouldn't have offered if it wasn't something I could do safely.
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I can put on a few bandages, Doctor Su. I'll be alright.
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[A shake of the head.]
You've already gone out of your way for me more than once, so...really. It's no big deal.
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I'm not that bad. I at least used the pods!
[...]
...are you sure, though? I'd... like to help you. I don't feel like I helped much with Malik.
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[That does make her pause, considering for a moment. No, they didn't help with Malik, really.]
Would it make you feel better?
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[well...]
Yes.
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[looks tiredly at su]
[okay...she's pulling up a chair.]
Fine.
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[okay! what kind of wound are we looking at here! jiuqing will set to getting it cleaned and bandaged. i am guessing it's scraped knuckles or something from the punching but i'll be honest my mind is a blur there could have been something else i just forgot.]
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[She'll offer the hands first.]
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anyway, she holds her hand and gets that taken care of!]
Well, you are right about this injury. It should heal quickly.
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[....]
[She glances down. The more metaphorical injury here won't heal quickly, though.]
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jiuqing gives her hand a soft squeeze.]
...it was difficult, wasn't it?
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[She glances back at Su.]
So it's hardly the first time I've...dealt with something like that.
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jiuqing can sympathize, though, and she puts a hand on hot pants's arm, mindful of the color lava burns.]
...that doesn't make it any easier. In a way, I would think that would make it harder.
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[She looks at that hand on her arm, frowning.]
...Besides, regardless of having siblings or not, it was hard on all of us. It wasn't like we walked in that place expecting we'd have to end the suffering of one of our own.
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[they'd walked in there expecting to watch one of their own fight to the death with one of his closest friends, instead. and for a brief moment, when the pair of them had walked through the archway together, she'd thought that was it. that they were free. that, somehow, they'd avoided any further bloodshed this week.
she couldn't have been more wrong.]
...there has to be some way to prevent... these refractions. There must be.
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[Its not like they can bottle it up, either. Look at what happened to Malik.]
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...and it's not as though we can make ourselves not feel, either. We might be able to keep ourselves from acting on our feelings in normal circumstances, but that doesn't make the feelings any less real.
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[...She reaches over a hand, a little weakly, to touch Su's hand.]
I'm glad it didn't get worse than it did.
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[...malik is still dead. there's no changing that. and jiuqing can't help but think that, being refracted, he probably had something to do with chinatsu's death.
but... at least he wasn't able to kill anyone else, before he went.]