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Characters: Bianca Reyes, and you!
Date: All of March, unless already noted
Location: EA-1A, the hospital, the clinic, all of Keeliai
Situation: Various!
Warnings/Rating: P for Poyo, the cyborg rooster
[OOC: Good with prose or action, whichever you like! Or if you have a specific thing you'd like to do with Bianca, let me know and I'll starter it up!]

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Working

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'Free time' isn't exactly the sort of time she has right now, thanks to (not quite) running around to get everything organized for when things really hit the fan. If she's not doing paperwork (a task thankfully cut down on thanks to Terry's presence), she's usually training someone, doing a round of the present patients, working out organizational points between the clinic and hospital, trying to set down educational information for general health and for medical emergencies, and so on.

If you're a volunteer or staff, you can even sometimes catch her taking a short break in the staff room, usually with a cup of coffee in hand.

Re: Working

[gathersnomoss]

A lot of Zelgadis's work is trying to take someone who knows first aid and have him actually fill in what you do once you get medical attention, along with things other than wounds and minor illnesses. So his breaks are often spent with whatever books he can find on physiology and medicine. His English makes reading slow.

Also coffee or tea. So, he might as well grab a cup for Bianca. "Here."

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"Thanks." There's only so far she can stretch a cup of coffee, especially when the drink of choice in Keeliai is tea (which is better, really, except in terms of caffeine content).

Even though she's technically on a break right now, she still has some a clipboard of paperwork (on proposed procedures). Everything's slowly morphing into a written pidgin of English and Kedanese, since it has to be understandable to as many as possible (while minimizing the amount of paperwork that has to be gone through). They're still working out the details.

"How's the studying going?" The training program she's ended up developing over the last few months has ended up focusing on as much of the practical and immediately needed as possible, if only because they probably don't have the years needed otherwise.

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"Not bad, though I really need to get my reading speed up," Zelgadis said. "Or else find textbooks in my native language on the next landfall. It wouldn't help with the technology or medicines, but human anatomy hasn't changed."

Really, it was mostly the vocabulary. Words like 'antibiotics' didn't have a local equivalent so Zel might as well start using the English words, but words like 'bicep' did.

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"If you can find any, that'd be helpful for everyone." Even if they're not in the right language, they'd still be useful. Careful copying and editing would do the trick as far as any graphics were concerned.

[gathersnomoss]

"I'll keep an eye out," Zelgadis said.

Re: Working

[ruinsprofessor]

At the very least, Raine's managed to find the hospital building, which is a start. She's careful how she handles her staff as she heads in-- it could easily be taken for a weapon, which, well, it is, but she doesn't plan to use it as one today. Walking stick and magical focus only.

She recognizes the woman from the network announcement with little trouble. She seems busy, as expected, and there's not likely to be any point at which Raine would not be interrupting, so Raine settles for a point when it looks like Bianca is moving from one task to another. "Excuse me. I was informed you could use extra assistance?"

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Bianca is- from quickly putting in some paperwork to moving to check on patients.

"Yes, we always can. You're new to Keeliai, right?" She motions for the younger woman to follow her, because she's trying to avoid wasting too much time.

[ruinsprofessor]

"That's correct." Raine matches Bianca's stride, taking care to stay out of the way. Straight to the point, then, since time is valuable. "My healing abilities appear to still be functioning as they should, I have a solid grounding in the basics of human-type physiology by my world's standards, and I learn very quickly. How can I help?"

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"Healing abilities? Like magic?" It's not something she's completely unused to by this point- Zelgadis for example, uses magic for healing- and it can always come in use.

"All of that sounds promising. Especially since you already know some physiology." Every little bit she doesn't have to go over herself helps. "I'm Bianca Reyes, by the way."

She's heading over to one of the elevators, which she hits the call button for for the next floor when they reach it.

[cherrywood]

Milyn hardly causes a stir as she made her way into the hospital, blending in with the kedan volunteers. She's polite to the nurses, asks where she can find Bianca, stands aside to assist someone making their way down the hallway with a careful hand on their arm. So it's with a quiet knock on the door to the staff room that she inclines her head, identifying the woman she'd spoken to once before.

"Forgive me for interrupting," she said.

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Bianca looks up from some paperwork she's going over with a cup of tea nearby at hand- it's nothing particularly important, just a review of some information that she still needs to go over personally. She remembers speaking to her, when they were told what was the cause of the fog that took over the city, and motions for her to come in, standing up as she does.

"Oh, no, it's fine. You're not interrupting anything."

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Milyn inclines her head, smiling politely. "I feel you'd tell me if I was," she answered, because Bianca definitely struck her as the type not to put social pleasantries above efficiency.

"We haven't been properly introduced. My name is Milyn."

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At work? Patient care was always the priority. If she could make time, though, she would.

"No, I don't think we have, have we? Bianca. It's nice to meet you, Milyn. I'm sorry I didn't get to you sooner, it took some work to keep everything running around here."

Running even a smaller sized hospital in the middle of an emergency with still-in-training staff? No easy task.

Bianca and Raine, after those two have talked a while

[survival_isnt_living]

Septimus felt bad leaving Bianca with so much work, but being as combat-capable as he is he'd felt obligated to help. As he's been settling back into the swing of things, though, he's spending a lot more time at the hospital again. As such, he has been mulling over a thought he'd had, and looking for Bianca is the clear next step.

"Bianca? If you've got a moment, I wanted to discuss an idea--"

By this point, Bianca may know him well enough to see the brief hesitation in his step and faint tightening of his eyes at the sight of Raine. He's been avoiding this conversation, even though her original post had made it obviously inevitable with the mention of healing artes.

He nods in greeting with a half-smile. It's not nearly as warm as he usually is--but he's trying for amiable and welcoming. After all, she's clothed and seems rather civilized. And not like the type who would scalp someone. "Our recently arrived healer, I see."

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Raine misses the nuance completely, and takes him for simply not a particularly gregarious person. Not at all uncommon, really. She considers, for a moment, asking how he knew of her, but the answer presents itself after a second's thought. The network. Of course.

"You have me at a disadvantage." This is a thinly veiled request for a name. She doesn't bother introducing herself, though, reasoning that if he saw her network post, he would likely have also caught her name. "Don't let me stop you. An idea?"

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She glances at Sep and the slight pause on his part- it's unusual, especially when he's usually so confident- and the couple notches down from the usual warmth he has is another sign something's up. Something that should probably be dealt with later, though. That's going to have to be straightened out regardless, especially since it looked like it started the moment he spotted Raine.

"I should be able to make the time." There's a slight tone to her voice- the sort she usually uses on Jaime and Milagro when she's trying to figure out what they're trying to hide- but not completely evident in her voice.

"Raine, this is Sep, he also works here and is one of my main partners in trying to keep all of this running, along with Dr. McCoy."

[survival_isnt_living]

That tone in Bianca's voice is surreal. Utterly and completely surreal. It's one he hasn't heard in several years--at least three and a half, if one counts the time in Keeliai. The well-trained mama's boy in him immediately reacts with an internal complaint, one rather more plaintive than he will ever admit even to himself: But I didn't even do anything this time!

Even he knows he sort of has, in an obscure way. He won't say that, though. Some things are private.

Besides, something about Raine feels distinctly odd. He can't quite put is finger on what it is, exactly, but he's cautious about focusing too much. Keeping his watercrafting senses a little more open than usual--if nothing else, he needs as much warning for any potential threat as he can get--he gives Bianca faint smile. Though Septimus wishes he could ignore Raine's question, it would be impolite--and so far out of character Bianca might actually ask. "A thought about the spike in injuries lately and, if not some measure of prevention, at least managing them even when people are in the field on missions. Might as well keep them from exacerbating everything by leaving them untended."

He knows that too well from experience.

EA-1A

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With Jaime here again, she's making a more concentrated effort to try to be at her suite a bit more often than just when she needs to eat and sleep. She's trying to avoid actually neglecting her son, after all. Her work with the hospital is important, but not that important.

With the turtle being in warmer waters again, when she's there the windows are open, an obvious sign she's around to anyone with open invites to come in.

She's trying to tone down on the takeout too (if mainly because Jaime looked like he was starting to become a bit pudgy last time), so the times she's off there's usually something in the middle of cooking.

Poyo???

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On one of her days off, Bianca's making her way back to her suite with groceries when there's a sudden explosion to the left that makes her nearly drop everything (she's lucky a few of her grocery bags have straps) and stop shocked where she's standing. That explosion was just a few feet ahead of her, after all. She nearly walked right into that!

That's when the crowing of a rooster catches her attention.

...It's The cyborg rooster. The one that attacked Scott several months back.

Of course. Because there're no other chickens on the island.

She's trying to remember what the rooster was called- It's named Poyo or Pollo or something, isn't it?- when it glides over to her feet and begins helping itself to the loaf of bread that fell. Right. That's another weird tick for the cyborg chicken. It flies. Via rocket.

Right, John Colby had been announced on the radio as one of the ones who'd disappeared about a month ago. Apparently he didn't take his rooster friend with him.

"Who's been taking care of you?"

Poyo looks up at her for a moment before returning his attention to the bread.

Right now, she's getting the distinct feeling her suite's just gained another resident.

For Jaime

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After finishing up stabilizing Aquaman and making sure everything that could be done right then and there was done, Bianca leaves for the staff room where she asked Jaime to wait.

Giving away his identity like that had been a bad goof on her part, but one that had her thinking, now that she wasn't focused on treating a patient.

"Mijo?"

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"Hi, Ma."

Jaime's out of 'work attire' now, so to speak, and he may as well be any other normal teenager waiting for his mother's breaktime. He waves to her from where he's seated on the staff room couch.

"Is he doing okay?"

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"He should stabilize. We're going to have to keep an eye on him here for a few days, he lost plenty of blood and we don't have anything available for transfusions. I think we're going to have to look into a blood drive," she says, as she walks over.

She gives him a hug as she sits down.

"And you? I didn't exactly have a chance to ask. I'm guessing things went bad in there...?"

[escarabajo]

"Does he need human blood or Atlantean blood? Because I think there's at least one other Atlantean here."

He falls into the hug and is silent for a moment or two, mulling over what his best response would be. (There's no real best response, unfortunately.)

"Well. We won?" Jaime answers, cautious. "Aquaman missing a hand sort of... speaks to how bad it went, yeah."

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She responds to the first bit, because what she's going to ask would be better off held until after. "Atlantean, maybe. I'm not sure. It doesn't do us much good if it's not available right now either way."

"Jaime, what happened?"