Farewell Happy Fields!

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Farewell Happy Fields!

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What: Aftermath of Anoli Attack: Hospital
Where: Leo Ward - Caduceus Hospital Headquarters
Summary: It is the aftermath of the Anoli attack on the Closing Ceremonies. The injured have been taken to Caduceus Hospital Headquarters, and it is time for reflection, visting, or old-fashioned escapes from the hospital rooms.
Warnings: Mild squick if people want to describe their wounds in explicit detail.

Caduceus Hospital Headquarters. It has a distinguished history within Hinoto-Ri, boasting of a staff of well-trained Healers, as well as possessing the most cutting edge medical technology possible. There was no limb they couldn't reattach, no organ they couldn't replace... - they even claimed to be able to bring someone back from the dead (with the small disclaimer that it could only occur under certain conditions and with an obscene amount of luck).

So needless to say, the hospital was more than well-equipped to deal with the aftermath of the Anoli attack on the Closing Ceremonies.

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Nearly every hospital bed had been filled by an injured patient that night. The A&E room had been in constant chaos, with civilians crying and shouting, searching for loved ones, or demanding to see doctors or healers to help so-and-so...

There had also been plenty of reporters milling about, shouting and crying over the status of the Mayor's Secretary, and whether the Red Lion had really died at the scene, or if he was still alive and well within the safety of the hospital's ICU.

By the time morning broke, there was a false sense of tranquillity within the hospital. The healers had been pushed to their limits with the sheer number of patients being wheeled in and out of surgery, but otherwise, the situation had finally gotten under control. Now, both civilians and visitors were merely waiting for word of the conditions of their injured friends and family...

[Welcome to the winding down of the event! You are now at the hospital, where you may be visiting the injured, or be one of the injured yourself! Those with RED injuries will be in the ICU, and those with YELLOW injures will be in normal wards, for obvious reasons. Those with GREEN injuries wouldn't have had to go to the hospital at all, so they are free to come and go as they wish!

You may all start your threads and mingle!]

Comments

ICU. Open.

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

There was a bit more panic than usual when this particular ICU patient was ushered into the hospital. What do you do with a patient who has wings? With some ingenuity, they managed to rig him up on a thin cushion that ran along his spine, taking the pressure off his wings. The patient didn't complain about the configuration at all, considering he was unconscious.

Visiting Pit on later days will find him in steadily improving states of consciousness, and steadily increasing states of restlessness. If he's gonna be stuck in a hospital, he wants one of his games with him!

[ Injures are vague since his thread isn't finished yet, but, yeah, open! :D ]

[maybe_a_king]

And, with how overloaded the hospital was, they were forced to double up a few of the rooms. So Pit was in a bed across from Arturia, who was looking through the various news reports when he finally stirred. She looked up from her search across the network.

"Pit? Are you awake?" she asked, having been worried from the moment he was wheeled in here.

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

"...?"

His first instinct is to turn his head towards the voice. Unfortunately, that's quite uncomfortable, so his only recourse is to figure out who's talking to him.

"Ar...turia?"

[maybe_a_king]

"It's me," Arturia confirms with a gentle smile, "It's nice to know I won't have to share with a stranger."

[forceofnature]

"You are such an idiot."

The voice is less than soothing, but Pit has probably learned when to tell Viridi is genuinely concerned by now. ...Or, at least, he might be able to tell if he were awake. The goddess's visit comes in the middle of the night for reasons relating largely to Not Being Seen. She had a reputation to maintain.

For what it's worth, this is only the second time she has ever deigned to set foot on Hinoto-Ri in person. Pit has seen her before in her sanctuary, but she's surprisingly... small.

"You can thrash Hades and the Chaos Kin, but a bunch of measly humans brings you down? Did you crank the difficulty up to 9 just to show off or something?"

A sigh, and she rummages around in her dress to bring forth a small, red vial to put on Pit's nightstand. It wasn't quite as potent, given that she had had to distill it from Melia's Mutation ability, but nectar and ambrosia was nectar and ambrosia.

"Stupid. ......I'd bring you to a hot spring, but you'd probably just drown in it instead."

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

Pit jolts a little at the sound of her voice, and makes himself even more uncomfortable turning his head to look at her. As much as he likes Arturia, he wouldn't put himself through the discomfort of turning his head to see her. Why? Because it's not every day Viridi visits anyone in person.

It might be a little hard to see in the dark, but there's a faint grin on Pit's face.

"'was closer to 90."

[forceofnature]

He was awake? Viridi is slightly surprised, though she shows this by turning her head away with a sniff.

"You sound like you swallowed a porcupine. Stop talking; it's hurting my ears."

Handy Tsun -> English Dictionary: You sound like death save your energy.

"And please, that was 7 level fighting out there at best. You probably can't even beat Phosphora at 9 though honestly I can't either."

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

He's injured just enough for his internal Tsun Translator to work. Doesn't have all those Personally Sensitive and Easily Offended filters clogging the signal.

"I'll be okay, Viridi." A pause. "Thanks. For visiting me."

[forceofnature]

"I-I'm not here to visit you...! I... I was just... passing -- OK no that's stupid, fine I'm visiting you but I'm just here to make sure you don't get yourself killed! Think of the horrible paradoxes you'd cause if you die in a different world, sheesh."

Her voice softens slightly.

"You'd better be out of here soon, OK? Palutena's not gonna captain her guard herself."

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

"Her guard's not here, Viridi."

Although she does have a point, albeit one she may not have set out to make. Pit pretty much IS Palutena's guard.

[forceofnature]

"...You know what I mean."

Somehow, her pouting seems a little more tolerable when she's in closer physical proximity.

"Look, just drink that whenever you can move without all of your bones creaking like an old barn. Or get one of the nurses to feed it to you. ...And don't be a dork and like, drink half of it and share the rest with someone else, got it?"

[a_pirate_meant_to_be]

Knock knockity knock knock.

"Oh, I thought this one was you. Geez, running into all sorts of folks I know around here. Not like that's a good thing though." He rubs the back of his neck. "Anyway, got a delivery for you from Mays."

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

"Brushguy!"




Pit

Pit no

[a_pirate_meant_to_be]

"That's GUYBRUSH," he says, slightly testily. Man, why do so many people get that wrong? "Anyway, I'm supposed to say this before I deliver this stuff, so..." He clears his throat. "'Just a friendly little delivery from the Mays Corporation, wishing you a quick recovery after your brave actions during our recent crisis!'" That feels even cheesier delivering it to someone he KNOWS than someone he doesn't.

He pulls out a basket filled with rather generic gift basket foods. "So, how're you feeling?"

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

Pit looks apologetic (although, if he were being honest with himself, he'd say he preferred Brushguy).

"Horrible," is his honest reply to Gushbruy...I mean, Guybrush's question.

[a_pirate_meant_to_be]

He winces. "Hey, at least you're feeling, you know what I mean? Ah ha ha... *ahem*" He plunks the basket down nearby. "Well, it's appreciation at least. I'm sure you'll be back up and ready for action again in no time."

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

"I hope so. This is boring."

He'd fidget, but.

FIDGETING HURTS.

[a_pirate_meant_to_be]

"Yeah, looks like it. They could at least turn the television on for you or something. On the other hand, judging by SOME of the stuff they put on that thing, maybe it's a blessing in disguise." Japanese TV shows are terrifying and disturbing.

❤

[poorlittleblueburdie]

Avitus had been going about the hospital, shortly after being brought there after the chaos, unsure of what to do other than hand out feathers as tokens of well-wishing. The humans in the Citadel, back in Nosgoth, kept them as good luck charms; surely they couldn't hurt anything here, right?

He pulled out another loose plume, one of his bigger ones, about a foot and a half long by half a foot wide, a round black one. Someone would be getting a fun one to play with, at least.

He stepped into the next room with it in hand, to see who he'd be leaving it for... and paused.

Was this a human... with wings?

He'd seen the lady with ears somewhat like his own, who'd said she wasn't human... perhaps this was a similar case? He couldn't help the small smile, even as he tried not to wince at seeing what state the boy was in. Somewhere down in his chest, a little coo had started, a soft, melodic, liquid sort of burble, a low sound that probably wouldn't be waking him up if he was asleep.

He looked away again, and gently set the huge feather down on the blanket, where it would surely be found when the boy woke up.

((Pit going to stay asleep and let him leave, or wake up to catch him? XD Your call. Either way, that feather's surely far too big to've been from Dark Pit... and hey, there's no blood on it, which is a good thing, right?))

Re: ICU. Open.

[poorfueleconomy]

[OOC: I was waiting to tag this until the outcome of the fight was more clear. i.e. I wanted to know if she was injured too, but I'm not sure if they're gonna find time to get back to us.]

Palutena has visited this room every day, sometimes several times a day since Pit was admitted. Her own injuries were minor, and healed quickly. Her poor little angel hadn't been as lucky. And she can't help but feel responsible. The first few days all she could do was watch over him and fret, but once he's conscious she can at least talk to him.

"How are you feeling?"

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

"Lady Palutena..."

He can't dive hug her like he wants to, so he tries to reach his hand out as far as possible. Hopefully she'll pick up on what he wants.

[poorfueleconomy]

She does. She moves closer to the bed and grasps his hand lightly. With her other hand she reaches up to gently stroke his hair.

"Oh, Pit..."

It's hard for her to see him like this. It makes her feel as if she's failed him somehow.

"I'm so sorry."

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

He shakes his head, offering a small smile.

"It's not your fault. I was just doing my job."

Even if protecting Palutena is more than a mere job to him.

[poorfueleconomy]

She smiles and squeezes his hand very lightly.

"I know. But I can still think of a million things I could have done differently. So that maybe you wouldn't have ended up this way..."

It does seem like he'll recover though, so at least it wasn't as bad as the time his wings were burnt up. Which is very lucky because there is not likely to be a rewind spring in town.

[gforceinmyfaaaace]

"Stop blaming yourself."

If he could, he'd climb out of this bed and give her a hug, to let her know he didn't blame her. He'd never blame her.

...unless she actually did manage to kill him with the Palutena Glam Blaster.