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

Yellow injuries - Open

[dreamprotector]

He's not exactly paid attention to the injuries he's carried away - he's become an expert at blocking out pain (having Curaga to take off the worst edge of it helps too) and so what if he's limping a little (or maybe more a lot, because damn, he can't even lean on his left leg anymore) as long as he has his right arm and his Keyblade he still can fight. He's been pretty much utterly drained when he'd found himself carted off towards the hospital and barely pays attention when one of the doctors diagnoses his shin as broken and in need of being reset (though with all the other, far more pressing cases, it takes some hours until they actually reset the break and plaster his leg from his foot almost up to his mid-thigh.

Just moments after arriving in his ward he passes out from pain and exhaustion and doesn't even think to switch out Zorya for one of his... less threatening Dream Eaters or notices the large tiger appearing and curling up in front of his bed, carefully watching anyone who might dare approaching him while he's injured and passed out.

When he wakes up again, his left shin is throbbing, his skin itching and the doctor coming by to tell him that he's (supposed to) been confined to bed for the next week at very least and that the crutches they are providing him with are only to be used for the most urgent matters.

...Well. Riku figures that finding out what exactly happened to the rest of his friends a very, very pressing and urgent matter and so he can be found hobbling his way down the corridor in search for familiar faces. He's certainly nothing if not determined.

[keyblading]

Sora was on his way to see Riku and make sure he was alright. If there was someone he was really worried about, it was Riku. He knew that he'd push himself to take care of everyone, so he had to make sure he wasn't...being Riku. When he saw the familiar silver hair, he hurried up to catch up to him (which didn't take long) and stood in front of him with his arms crossed over his chest.

"Where do you think you're going?" He said, pulling the deepest frown a Sora could manage.

[dreamprotector]

It's taken him a bit to figure out the most efficient way to walk with those crutches, and even after that he needs to split his concentration between glancing into the rooms to see if they are being occupied by anyone he knows and not putting any strain on his left foot. Those he ends up blinking at the sudden Sora-shaped wall right in front of him - where did he come from?

After a moment he raises an eyebrow though.

"Nowhere in particular. I'm taking a walk."

There. Can you please step aside now?

[keyblading]

This Sora shaped wall takes his wall like job very seriously when it comes to Rikus being silly. Frowning more deeply, Sora stepped towards his friend.

"That's funny, because I remember someone's doctor telling me you had to stay in bed. Couldn't be yours, could it."

[dreamprotector]

He shifts slightly, putting his weight on his right foot and crutch - he does not think he's being silly, thank you. :|

He shrugs; so maybe it had been his doctor. Maybe.

"Moving around for half an hour isn't going to kill me."

[keyblading]

Sora's closer now, he's gonna nab a Riku if this guy doesn't listen to him.

"It may not kill you, but it's better to rest up from injuries and get fully healed. You'll just hurt yourself more and then how can you check up on anyone!"

[dreamprotector]

Well, Riku is just going to stare down at him - while he seems a bit exhausted, there is something stubborn and defiant in his eyes (and he's just biting back the "what are you gonna do about it").

"Doctor said 'fully healed' may take six weeks." Though Riku honestly hopes he can speed that up with a little bit of magic. "I'm not going to wait that long to find out what happened to everyone else."

He's not. And he won't stop sneaking about until he's seen them himself.

"Besides, despite current appearance, I'm not delicate. And I'm being careful."

[keyblading]

Sora still looked unhappy with Riku's current life choice. What if something were to happen?! Then Riku would be worse off and it'd take even longer!

"Yeah? What if someone just pops up in here asking for a duel! You're gonna have to fight them with a crutch and hopping on one leg like a pirate!" Sora said, though it was a brief moment of thinking how cool it would be to be a pirate before he finally shook his head.

"You need to rest, and get better quick." Sora said, "I'll make sure to go around the hospital everyday and see how everyone is doing and report back to you."

It was clear how worried Sora was for his friend, looking up to him now. "Please?"

[terra_nullius]

Someone else is wandering the hospital, looking for familiar faces... though as he drifts down one of the halls aimlessly - taking a moment to look into each doorway just in case - his eyes catch that hair. All-too-familiar... his eyes narrow and he ducks back, pressing against the wall with a scowl.

[dreamprotector]

Riku doesn't notice his scent, too focused on moving along somewhat quickly without messing up is leg again. After a while he stops for a moment, narrowing his eyes at the destination panel, searching for the directions to the ICU.

[terra_nullius]

When it seems as though Riku hasn't noticed him, he begins to scoot along the wall, trying to stay out of sight just in case but still determined to pass him without notice.

[dreamprotector]

He begins to limp down the hallway again, though he stops again a moment later, blinking and turning his head when he catches a flash of grey through an open door.

[terra_nullius]

Thinking that he's home free, he lets himself be a bit less cautious, ducking into a room (its occupants seem to be sleeping, thankfully) in order to escape Riku's gaze. He stops to wait, looking over one of the peoples' chart with idle curiosity, listening for Riku's footsteps to fade away.

[dreamprotector]

And fade they do, as Riku finds a small bench to sit down at after a another minute or two - he still is drained from battle and despite the urgency he feels, he has no intention of over-exhausting himself. (He does have some common sense left.)

He rests his head back against the wall, eyes closing for a second - now, while he's just by himself, he can admit that maybe he should have waited another day with this after all.

[terra_nullius]

[All quiet then? Thinking he's home free he strolls out of the room... only to almost screech to a halt when Riku is clearly still right there, only sitting.

He doesn't look that good though, on closer inspection.]

... are you all right?

[dreamprotector]

He stiffens slightly at Xehanort's voice, head snapping up, but then he blinks when he recognizes the other and relaxes again. He might not fully trust him, but Xehanort has never done anything that deserves his wariness - not here at least - and really, even if he stays guarded, there isn't much he could do about an attack right now anyways.

He shrugs at the question.

"As all right as I can be, considering..."

He gestures down at his cast.

[terra_nullius]

"Ah, you were involved in that as well."

A sharp note to his voice, reproachful perhaps. He keeps his gaze even in order to hide the bitter distaste he feels.

"You're not confined to a bed though. You must be faring better than the others. That's good..."

❤

[poorlittleblueburdie]

...and the blue bird-person coming down the hall pauses, eyes wide at this sight. He knows what a cast is, and he knows what crutches are, and he knows that this teenager probably shouldn't be up and about, in his condition. And yet, he is anyway.

Avitus's wings drop from around him, to fold up behind his back again, like birdish wings ought to, the feathers floofing out subtly with his worry.

"Um...."

Eloquent, burdie. Really eloquent, there.

[dreamprotector]

Riku knows that it's probably not a good idea for him to be moving, a least not for another few days, that he should focus his energy rather on using what magic he can to help speed up his recovery, but... he's too worried for everyone else, he needs to check up on them before he can concentrate on anything else.

He glances up at the bird hovering in his way, frowns at him for a second before sidestepping him and continuing on.

He doesn't have the time for small talk. Or people who don't even manage to get a straight word out. Not right now.

[poorlittleblueburdie]

He watches for a second, before he can think of something that involves words that he can say. "Shouldn't you be resting....?"

Wait, no, wrong question. If he's up and out of bed and going down the hall, then there must be something else higher in priorities to him than his own recovery or comfort. So....

"What is it you need?" The burd is going to follow after you, sorry Riku. He just wants to help, really.

[dreamprotector]

If Riku had the energy to spare, he'd turn around and glare at the bird-person he just had to dodge, because really, he doesn't have the time or patience to let himself be lectured by some stranger right now. Instead he keeps walking (or well, hobbling), his answer to the second question curt and somewhat polite.

"Nothing that can be helped with, thank you."

[poorlittleblueburdie]

"But--!"

He wants to protest. He really does. But if this guy's insistent... well, Avitus isn't exactly assertive.

So Riku can easily enough get away. Avitus is just going to sigh, wings sinking again.

"....All right."

And then he'll go tell a doctor that the boy's up and about, in case that isn't an all right sort of thing, with them. If it's a problem, the people in charge can be the ones to deal with it; they'd be more qualified!

Belated NPC

[hinoto_ri]

Thanks to the nefarious machinations of corners in hallways, neither saw the other approaching - thus Riku nearly hobbles his way straight into a cop. The man side-steps just in time, and it seems like he was going to just continue wordlessly on his way with nary a word to spare... then he pulled a double take.

"Excuse me - you're a Guest, correct? You were at the closing ceremonies?"

/o/

[dreamprotector]

He mumbles an apology when he nearly runs into the police man, needing a moment to find his balance again before he continues down the hallway. ...Not that he makes it very far before the other calls after him. It takes a moment for him to turn around - turning on his heels isn't exactly an option right now, but once he has, he nods.

"I was."

[hinoto_ri]

The cop quickly loses his previously harried expression.

"Then you're one of the people I'm looking for. I was sent from the precinct to interview the Guests about the attack - we need to find out everything we can about the Anoli's tactics before something like this happens again."