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tushanshu_logs2017-03-13 06:51 pm
ruinsprofessor) wrote in tushanshu_logs2017-03-13 06:51 pm
don't you ever consider giving up [March, catchall, open]
Characters: Raine Sage and open!
Date: Most of March, primarily after the 11th
Location: Healers' Guild, Earth sector apartment, assorted others
Situation: Many, lots. Most post-fourth-wall.
Warnings/Rating: just going to go ahead and warn for suicide themes and discussion with Kratos. Dammit, Kratos.
A | Healers' Guild | open
While Raine's largely absent for the first third of the month, spending as much time with her husband as she can before he's inevitably drawn out of Keeliai, she's doubly present for the latter parts of March, throwing herself into work. She always has her hands in something, whether it's healing or herbs or simply scheduling the next days or weeks, and as a result she will need to be interrupted if someone wants any part of her time.
It's entirely possible to get one of her apprentices to interrupt her for you, fortunately, and she doesn't snap at interruptions anyway, only glances up with distracted eyes, slowly focusing. "What do you need?"
B | Healers' Guild | Miles
She wasn't entirely expecting to see Miles again without some grievous injury, but it's not a bad thing; simply a matter for curiosity. Raine lifts her head from the dried herbs she's disentangling and tilts her head at Miles. "It seems you're doing well. What brings you here?"
C | Midnight Hotel | Fai
Eventually, citing time concerns, Raine had had to let Fai go the previous time they'd met, and there wasn't nearly enough opportunity to speak of all the magical and linguistic things she'd wanted to. So she'd arranged with him to meet for lunch, or an equivalent meal at the time of day that worked, and now that's the reason she's at the Hotel, looking for Fai with a pair of notebooks and a slate tucked under one arm. "There you are. I'm glad we were able to sort out a time."
She doesn't look quite as cheerful as she did the last time Fai saw her, but her interest in the matter at hand is undisguisable.
D | Sky Sector, Pepper's home | Pepper
Raine calls ahead, just to be sure; but early in the month, she stops by while Pepper's in and both Gene and Tony are out. "I'm not here for very long," she says, apologetically, "but I needed to discuss something with you in person. I take it you heard I accomplished something with Bakura?"
E | Water Sector, a tea house near the Healers' Guild | Kratos
It's one of their weekly teas, and they've spent what Raine judges is an appropriate amount of time on small talk and catching up socially. Eventually she sets her tea down, arranges her hands delicately around the base of the cup. "I heard," she says, "that Lloyd was here for some little while, these past few weeks."
Date: Most of March, primarily after the 11th
Location: Healers' Guild, Earth sector apartment, assorted others
Situation: Many, lots. Most post-fourth-wall.
Warnings/Rating: just going to go ahead and warn for suicide themes and discussion with Kratos. Dammit, Kratos.
A | Healers' Guild | open
While Raine's largely absent for the first third of the month, spending as much time with her husband as she can before he's inevitably drawn out of Keeliai, she's doubly present for the latter parts of March, throwing herself into work. She always has her hands in something, whether it's healing or herbs or simply scheduling the next days or weeks, and as a result she will need to be interrupted if someone wants any part of her time.
It's entirely possible to get one of her apprentices to interrupt her for you, fortunately, and she doesn't snap at interruptions anyway, only glances up with distracted eyes, slowly focusing. "What do you need?"
B | Healers' Guild | Miles
She wasn't entirely expecting to see Miles again without some grievous injury, but it's not a bad thing; simply a matter for curiosity. Raine lifts her head from the dried herbs she's disentangling and tilts her head at Miles. "It seems you're doing well. What brings you here?"
C | Midnight Hotel | Fai
Eventually, citing time concerns, Raine had had to let Fai go the previous time they'd met, and there wasn't nearly enough opportunity to speak of all the magical and linguistic things she'd wanted to. So she'd arranged with him to meet for lunch, or an equivalent meal at the time of day that worked, and now that's the reason she's at the Hotel, looking for Fai with a pair of notebooks and a slate tucked under one arm. "There you are. I'm glad we were able to sort out a time."
She doesn't look quite as cheerful as she did the last time Fai saw her, but her interest in the matter at hand is undisguisable.
D | Sky Sector, Pepper's home | Pepper
Raine calls ahead, just to be sure; but early in the month, she stops by while Pepper's in and both Gene and Tony are out. "I'm not here for very long," she says, apologetically, "but I needed to discuss something with you in person. I take it you heard I accomplished something with Bakura?"
E | Water Sector, a tea house near the Healers' Guild | Kratos
It's one of their weekly teas, and they've spent what Raine judges is an appropriate amount of time on small talk and catching up socially. Eventually she sets her tea down, arranges her hands delicately around the base of the cup. "I heard," she says, "that Lloyd was here for some little while, these past few weeks."
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That's also not what they're here to talk about, and-- Pepper is hugging her. Ah. Raine folds her arms around her friend, breathing out with a careful quiet relaxation. "Solomon and I both wanted to," she says softly after a few moments. "It has been... driving, this last little while."
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"Yeah," Pepper replies, blowing out a breath. "I know." Solomon's research was perhaps the greatest part of him left in Keeliai, other than Raine's dedication and love for him. Seeing that research come to fruition, even in his absence, is a triumph and must also be a comfort for her.
And the chance that Bakura may get to heal? It makes Pepper's heart a little tight with emotion only Vee is yet privy to. "It's sort of funny... since we all go back home and forget and revert and whatever... it'd be easy to just say it was hopeless and not try to do anything. But it's a chance to try everything, too, just to see what happens."
And maybe, maybe it might leave a lasting impression. It probably wouldn't be enough to keep Bakura alive, if he went home but... she could dream.
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She saw Solomon nearly keep himself here; she knows the shape of her own soul better than ever. Raine doesn't think this is simply false hope. She won't let it be.
"What's done here matters," she adds at length. "Even if, ultimately, I can find no solution, and we all forget anyway. It matters that it happened."
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"If there's a will, there's a way," she quotes, brighter than before. It does matter, even if only here. It matters somewhere in the universe, that they've left a mark. Perhaps even a lasting, positive one. "It'll be pretty weird, though, if we can remember. Super cool, too, but weird." And jarring, depending on what each of them returned home to. "Maybe someone figures it out, though. I mean, we did get those letters from ourselves a while back. Some older version of us remembers, even if it's just a Dreaming version."