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poly_chromatic2013-05-28 02:18 pm
anatural) wrote in poly_chromatic2013-05-28 02:18 pm
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二十七
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[Korra is done with the hospital. So very, very, VERY done.
Unfortunately, neither her body nor the hospital staff agree. Just a few more days, they promise her. You sustained major trauma from those bullet wounds. Personally, she finds the pain less traumatic than the terrible smell and the snoring of her roommates. (She's able to think this only because of really excellent pain medication.)
The biggest problem with being stuck in the hospital, though, is that it gives her too much time to think. About the injuries she sustained. About how she's going to need physical therapy. About the fact that no matter how hard she tries, she might never be able to move the way she used to again. The doctor warned her that her shoulder will be prone to popping out of its socket, and that her muscles may be stiff and harder to move than before. She's very lucky that none of the bullets shattered bone or nicked any organs. She could have died or been paralyzed. She tries to remember that and feel grateful, but mostly she feels like, bit by bit, everything that makes her her is being chipped away.
She hates hospitals.]
[ooc: open to any and all visitors or hospital staff!]
[Korra is done with the hospital. So very, very, VERY done.
Unfortunately, neither her body nor the hospital staff agree. Just a few more days, they promise her. You sustained major trauma from those bullet wounds. Personally, she finds the pain less traumatic than the terrible smell and the snoring of her roommates. (She's able to think this only because of really excellent pain medication.)
The biggest problem with being stuck in the hospital, though, is that it gives her too much time to think. About the injuries she sustained. About how she's going to need physical therapy. About the fact that no matter how hard she tries, she might never be able to move the way she used to again. The doctor warned her that her shoulder will be prone to popping out of its socket, and that her muscles may be stiff and harder to move than before. She's very lucky that none of the bullets shattered bone or nicked any organs. She could have died or been paralyzed. She tries to remember that and feel grateful, but mostly she feels like, bit by bit, everything that makes her her is being chipped away.
She hates hospitals.]
[ooc: open to any and all visitors or hospital staff!]
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[ He shifts again in his seat. The ventilation system overhead makes a low hmmmm that he feels like only he can hear. It's not a pleasant noise. Hei dimly associates it with illness, like it's some paranoid foretelling of doom, background whispers of conspiracy against health and life. Irritably, he shakes it off. His mind never goes to cheerful places when he lets it wander. ] I know you don't like sitting still. But this should give you something to focus on in the meanwhile.
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[ It's a stopgap, ersatz type, true. But for this moment, like a held breath underwater, it'll do. ]
[ Eventually, ] I should get going. [ There's still the matter of Korra's attacker to be dealt with. ] I'll be back tomorrow with more food. If you want.
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Okay. Thank you.
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[ Rising, he regards her with steady eyes for a moment -- dull but fond. No kiss or clinch, but he reaches out and smoothes a hand -- very lightly -- through her hair. All emotion tied to softness is at a standstill. His frame-of-mind is already sliding into violence and calculation. It's not the kind of energy he can deal with at the same time as Korra. It's a little dangerous. ]
Try to take it easy. [ He doesn't mean in the sense of lolling in bed all day. That's a necessity for a time-period. It's her mind -- the thoughts skittering within -- he's talking about. ]
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