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[onefouroneseven]

Characters: Soranik Natu & YOU
Date: February 22
Location: Fire Sector
Situation: Natu begins to stock up on things she's going to need to practice medicine if she can't use her ring
Warnings/Rating: None


[ It really only strikes Soranik on how ingrained the use of her power ring is when she can't use it anymore. There were certain allowances she was prepared to use it for (such as anything when dealing with the virus infected individual and general medical emergencies) but the mundane tasks that were simply managed better with the ring? Not allowed.

Which brought her back to her original problem - getting basic medical supplies. While the ring could easily bring up someone's vitals and monitor them, Soranik felt that the constant use of it for that would drain her ring faster than she'd like. Dressed in some loose pants she'd found in her own district and the black tank she normally wore under her uniform, she made her way through the other districts - picking up things here and there.

At least that was the plan, until she found herself in the Fire Sector with far too many boxes in her hands to grab the one she'd just bought - filled with various things the herbalist swore would dull pain when ground up and applied to wounds or bruises. ]

Just put it on top of everything else.

[ She'd manage. ]

Comments

Forgive the brat.

[demon_brat]

You could have hired a vehicle, you realize.

[Have an eleven-year-old dressed locally but very much earth-human. Who dipped in the herb store to replenish some stores, because bats, but is now staring at her unimpressed. (Doubly so if she is wearing her ring.)]

[onefouroneseven]

[ There isn't a moment where she isn't wearing her ring. Let alone be foolish enough to wander out of her residence without it. ]

I have better things to spend my money on.

[ Her own expression is indifferent - she's far more focused on the packages than she is Damian. ]

[demon_brat]

Not if you trip and fall and the contents of all of these get ruined.

[Yeah, no, not very high opinion of her already. But still.]

Would you require assistance?

[onefouroneseven]

I am not so foolish to have them packaged poorly.

[ Also a good sense of balance. ]

Should I expect more of your attitude if I say 'yes'?

[demon_brat]

[And yet. This is new terrain.]

[Damian considers this, and then responds truthfully and indifferently.]

Yes.

[onefouroneseven]

[ And thus the debate if she wants to put up with him versus the reality of getting all of her stuff back in one piece beings. ]

Fine.

[ But so help her, that doesn't mean she has to tolerate it completely. ]

[demon_brat]

>Tt.<

[The plus side? Unlike Grayson, Damian is not inclined to chatter, instead efficiently takes packages from her until she can easily see her way, and then pushes the door open, propping it with his foot so she can leave, too. Ninja grace? Ninja grace, completely unconscious.]

[bowarmed]

[The Fire Sector is beautiful. Dressed in his civvies, Connor keeps on going over the occasional surface with the flames with his hand, amazed that it isn't burning at all. It's also a lot more modern here than the humble Water Sector; too many shops, too many sharp corners and sharper people.

But the good thing is there are herbalists. He likes the scent of a herbal shop. It's woody and earthy, and it makes him think of his monastery. Only here, it's being maned by a kedan with changing number of eyes.

With Kyle behind him, he wanders towards the store front and catches one of the many boxes before it falls.]

[onefouroneseven]

[ She's too busy cursing inwardly to notice Kyle off in the distance, which is probably for the best. But before she can make a move to shuffle more boxes into one arm to make a grab for it, someone's beat her to the punch. ]

Thank you. You can put it on top of the other ones.

[ She'll have to stop somewhere to better organize herself, but it'll do for now. ]

[bowarmed]

[He stacks the box on top, only to have a couple more get squeezed out of place. He shoves a hand to the size of the stack to steady it, but a few still topples over.

Well, he tried.]

I think you might need some help carrying these.

[onefouroneseven]

[ Yes, probably. Not that Soranik enjoys asking for help and simply assumes he's offering. ]

I live in the Earth sector - it's not too far of a walk.

[ It would be a lot quicker if she could fly, that's for sure. ]

[bowarmed]

If it isn't, I can give you a hand.

[Now he's offering. Because the moment he tries to remove his hand, the stack of boxes are wobbling out of shape.]

My friend's around the back. If you can hold on a second, I just need to tell him I'll be right back.

[onefouroneseven]

Thank you.

[ A small nod, since she can't gesture without risking having them all fall. ]

Go right ahead, I will manage.

[imaginate]

[Kyle had been curiously admiring and examining everything in the shop. The level of technology here had been difficult to get used to, and for medicine especially, it seemed tough. He'd hate to have a significant injury.

When Connor requests to help someone, he agrees almost immediately, and follows, quite intent on offering his help as well, until he sees-]

Fancymeetingyouhere.

[The words are sharp, and devoid of his usual exuberance.]

[sophos]

[Annabeth's on her way to Leo's suite when she spots a relatively familiar face, however recently familiar it is. She sort of veers a little closer in curiosity, wondering what she's bought - the woman was a doctor after all, even if she'd come across as more the technological sort than herbalist.]

[Hades, that's a lot of boxes.]

You might be able to get them delivered.

[She knows the other woman's in Earth. It's a bit of a trip. Not that she's making assumptions about her strength, either.]

[onefouroneseven]

Is that an option?

[ And she is the more technological sort, but it's always best to know what things she has on-hand until her power battery is found.

But she recognizes Annabeth - she'd mentioned something about a friend who could help her build true medical supplies. A lead worth following up on as far as Soranik's concerned. ]

[sophos]

[A shrug, but also a bit of a nod.] There's a handful of delivery businesses, if the people who sold it won't do it themselves.

[onefouroneseven]

You wouldn't happen to know where one is, would you?

[ She'd studied Kyle's maps before she went out, but they'd been unmarked except for some of the obvious things. ]

[sophos]

[Annabeth gives the area around them a scan. Though she doesn't know the Fire sector as well as Metal, her memory is still practically photographic. So after thinking on it, she nods, tilts her head to the left.]

There's one the next street over, pretty decent rates. I've never actually used it, but I doubt it'd be in business still if it were bad.

[onefouroneseven]

Thank you.

[ There's a second or so of reshuffling before she gets everything under control again as best she can without ring use. ]

I have not managed to contact your friend yet - although I still plan on it.

[sophos]

No problem. There's a handful of others throughout the sectors, if you want them for the future, too.

[She shrugs, but it's more amicable than indifferent.] If he doesn't respond right away, don't be afraid to try again. [A combination of how wrapped up Leo gets in whatever he's working on plus ADHD, there's a good chance anything missed wouldn't be on purpose.]

[Not that she's one to talk either.]

[idkmybffpyramid]

[Someone is looking significantly better than he did when he arrived. Clean and well rested and all that. He's out and about, trying to get the lay of the land as it were, when he spots a familiar face from the network. He debates for a moment whether or not to go over, but you know what. Can't hurt to be on good terms with a doctor in an unfamiliar place.]

Soranik, right?

[He smiles brightly, an implicit "nice to see you," and gestures to her... Everything.]

Need a hand?

[onefouroneseven]

[ It takes her a second or so to recognize him, that and to registered being called Soranik instead of Lantern Natu. ]

You are certainly looking better, Reno - was it?

[ As for the help, well. ]

If it's not too much trouble.

[ It just got away from her and she forgot that using her ring isn't an option. ]

[idkmybffpyramid]

I got dragged kicking and screaming to a healer, so.

[He says it with a smile as he takes as much as he feels he can carry without dropping anything, and looks down at it all a bit incredulously.]

They don't do deliveries round here? [...] Or shopping bags?

[onefouroneseven]

Whoever it was did a fair job.

[ It's not exactly high praise, of only because Soranik is the sort of person who believes her way is the best way in the medical world, but she can't argue with good work. ]

I am sure they do, I simply didn't think it would be necessary.

[ And then it kind of got away from her. ]