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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!]

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"Oh, then it wasn't... something anyone taught you...?" His wings sank down again. "I thought--"

He glanced down, cheeks purpling slightly, and fiddled with his spoon in the empty cup. He must've just made quite a fool of himself there, he figured, getting excited over seeing her do that, thinking-- Well, it probably wasn't a thought worth continuing to entertain, was it.

"So vampires aren't the only ones to end up with Gifts, after all...."

She shakes her head, feeling bad when she sees how upset he seems to be. "No... I'm sorry." Even though it can't be helped; it was just their stars of fate to have been blessed with the powers they did.

"...How did they obtain their Gifts?"

"Through age, mostly. I've read that it was once possible for vampires to inherit another's Gift through consuming their blood, but if that were the case, water wouldn't harm any of us, after having fed on Rahabim. Unless that isn't strictly a Gift of theirs." He frowned a bit, but quickly enough dismissed the idea again.

"I heard Zeno and Vedast speaking of it, before, too. Apparently when Raziel returned, he had acquired his brothers' gifts by doing something like that... but Zeno said he suspected it was largely... er... psycho... something? That taking their Gifts was all in his head." He was a little quieter, tucking his wings around him more, probably not realizing he was. "I heard him saying that a ghost's form and abilities were logically from their own beliefs. But that aside, he had telekinesis, so now I know where that Gift comes from."

Much of this goes flying over her head. Vampires are quite complicated, it seems.

"The way we obtained our powers seemed much more like pure chance... I'm afraid I don't know very much about the people who gained it through age or other means." She's still curious, however. Even in her own world, there were those who had trained their spiritual powers instead of gaining them suddenly as Aoi and her friends did.

"Then it isn't common for it to be simply something that develops as one lives, in your world? How... did you come to have yours? You said it was awakened somehow, but... how did it happen, if I might ask?"

She shakes her head. "It's not common at all... most people aren't even aware of the existence of powers like ours. Even now, we try to keep it a secret." Or at least, they did when she was in Tokyo. Things are quite a different matter in Hinoto-Ri.

"Some people develop theirs naturally, I think, but... ours came very suddenly due to the Dragon Stream being disrupted."

Which... had been indirectly her fault, as it turned out.

"And... the Dragon Stream isn't the name of something that has to do with a path for water, is it." Chances were, it wasn't something that he was familiar with already, from his own world.

She shakes her head quickly. "It's a little more... mystical than that. I'm not sure how to explain it, but..." She pauses for a moment to collect her thoughts.

"When the Dragon Stream is disrupted... the world is thrown into chaos. In our case, it was because demons were being summoned and set out upon the city."

"And it was those demons which disrupted it? ....Did that... have negative effects on the world itself, as well?"

"Not... exactly." There's some hesitation here. While she is fine with explaining much of what had happened, there are certain details she would rather not get into.

"Rather... There was a man who summoned the demons to disrupt the Dragon Stream for his own purposes. In Tokyo at least, many lives were lost, and the others who received powers..."

She bowed her head. "...There were some who lost control, and were consumed by the power."

"It sounds... from that, at least... perhaps not too much unlike something in my world. So... I think I understand." He frowned to himself, thinking about it. "Possibly, anyhow. ....How well-known is this Dragon Stream, in your world?"

"It's... a little difficult to say. I didn't know anything about it until I gained my powers, and I doubt most people have heard of it. But recently, I've discovered that people who I've been close to all my life knew all about it, but never told me a thing. It seems to be a well guarded secret."

She gave a small, almost sad chuckle. "...I can't really blame them, however. The power is great, and if it fell into the wrong hands... And not to mention, getting someone who isn't used to any power like that existing at all probably wouldn't even believe us if we said anything."

Farewell Happy Fields!

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