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

[dreamprotector]

He nods.

"With some practice."

[terra_nullius]

"Then you should go to them. I'll stop interrupting."

He shifts a bit, not curtly but something else. He doesn't have any feeling about this. It's all a bit foolish, if nothing else...

[dreamprotector]

"You aren't."

Not while he's still resting anyways. It will still take some minutes until he fully trusts himself to start moving again.

"...You are here to visit some of them yourself, right?"

[terra_nullius]

He almost wants to laugh. He's here to visit people in a more vindictive sense... hardly because he would consider them friends. At least, for most of them, there hasn't been any friendly overtures...

"I'm here to visit, yes," he responds dryly. "Though I haven't really had much luck finding anyone I know. It seems there were a lot of foolish people involved in all of this."

[dreamprotector]

Foolish people? Really?

...Though well, he supposes there is a little foolishness to all of this, all things considered. Still.

"Foolish maybe. But most of us had good intentions at least."

Of course... the road to hell is paved with good attentions; Riku knows this more than well enough. Whether this is the case here... well, time would tell.

"I think you'll find most of them down in the ICU."

[terra_nullius]

Good intentions? He holds his tongue. Life is full of good intentions, but such things are ultimately meaningless.

"I don't know most of them. I've seen those I know about." And those he cares about, though he doesn't voice that sentiment.

[dreamprotector]

No, they aren't. Not if coupled with a little bit of skill, luck and stubbornness. And Riku knows, he should probably let this go, but he can't quite help himself.

"And there I thought you 'hadn't much luck'."

[terra_nullius]

A quiet snort of derision, and Xehanort raises a hand in an almost strikingly familiar fashion, gesturing slightly.

"You don't need luck to look in every room until you find the one that has someone you know."

[dreamprotector]

Familiar indeed, almost familiar enough to get Riku to tense. Almost. Instead he follows up on the banter.

"Asking the nurse would do too."

[terra_nullius]

Being caught in something so simple makes him scowl tightly, his eyes straying away from the young Master in displeasure.

"I suppose that is true enough. They are rather busy, though."

[dreamprotector]

Well hey, why easy when complicated works too, right? No need to beat yourself up about it.

"True."

Though Riku has no doubt that they'd find the half-minute it would take to point him in the right direction at least.