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tea party

WHO: Toki, Kano, Peter, Gon, Maya, Yuya, Ekkehardt, Imelda
WHERE: Lumière dorms
WHEN: early during the first week of school
WHAT: screaming and dying and tea parties
WARNINGS: screaming and dying and tea parties... broken arms, bears, Lumière deserves a warning in general
NOTES: a continuation of this thread

[Toki doesn't know what happened, but there's a weird guy in a red costume, and a talking bear. He doesn't recognize Gongenzaka's voice, because he doesn't pick on those things.]

Am I dead?

[Because that would make this make sense.]

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[ Kano can't tell him what happened, but he's the one screaming, and also the one who's obviously injured; Ekkehardt can find him on the couch in the common room with his arm broken so badly no amount of bandages can help him.

A bandage would be useful, though. To seal up his mouth. ]

[ Luckily for Kano, Ekkehardt is a surgeon and a healer as well as trained in first aid; magic means some things can be taken care of much more quickly.

Kano being a Contracted complicates things a little - he tries not to use magic for them unless he has to - but this is serious enough that he thinks he can risk it. ]

Try not to move. [ He kneels and focuses his attention entirely on Kano's arm, locating the injury in more detail, and makes a small tch noise. ]

It's a clean break, at least.

[ He pulls out a roll of bandages, carefully directing them to weave tightly around Kano's arm, and then...

Well, the good news is that Kano can't feel the pain from a broken arm any more. The more alarming news is that he can't really feel his arm any more??

But hey, at least it doesn't hurt so he can hopefully stop screaming. ]

[ Ugh--

He doesn't move when instructed, especially when the arm is numbed and bandages wrapped around. Ekkehardt would have to take off Kano's jacket and roll up his shirt sleeve to bandage the bare arm, old cuts and bruises and scars all along the length of it that Kano usually keeps hidden under his illusion, fading in and then out again once the pain ebbs away and he can but that shield back up. ]

...I can't feel it. [ Definitely alarming. ] Is it going to fall off??

[ Is that what Ekkehardt's doing? Cutting off his nerves and circulation and then the arm falls off, no pain?? ]

[ He makes a mental note of all those little scars, but doesn't ask. That's something for another day. He methodically examines the boy's arm, apparently ignoring Kano's question at first. ]

You fractured two bones in your arm. Luckily - though I doubt you feel lucky at this moment - there's nothing more severe than that.

[ White light plays along Kano's arm as he talks; Ekkehardt keeps his focus on coaxing the bones to speed up their regrowth, using the bandages to keep his patient's arm straight. ]

You'll be fine, though your arm will be sore. You won't have to wear a cast, but I'll need to put a binding on your arm so that they won't set crookedly. It should wear off after a few days...

[ And then he finally responds. ]

...No, it won't fall off. I've numbed it so you don't feel the pain as I fix it. [ He sounds a bit amused. ] If I had to perform an amputation, I would have told you as much. That's an entirely different procedure.

[ That he has also apparently performed considering how easily he talks about it. ]

[ The fact that he's alive is more than he deserves, he thinks to himself, but the severity of the whole situation is that there were somehow so many people involved now- Maya was breaking down over something, Toki is miraculously still alive but something in him also seemed to snap, Kano had also let his iron grip over everything slip and now look at what happened.

He lets out a sigh, and tries to sink into the couch and fall through the floor, but of course that's impossible. ]

Ugh... My head hurts. Think you can amputate that? [ —no, Ekkehardt might actually comply if it's a request ] That was a joke.

[ He's just going to splint that arm and not respond at first. He slowly lets feeling return to Kano's arm, which is probably, by this point, feeling pretty sore. ]

Amputation is a little extreme for a headache. [ Understatement of the year. ] Unless you're capable of functioning without a head, which is an entirely different situation and your own business.

[ Talking about weird things keeps the mind focused off pain, so he's going to keep doing that. ]

Do you really think I'm going to cut off your head without asking first? [ He seems to find the idea funny. ]

[ Soreness is much preferred over stabbing pain like his arm's on fire and wishing it were amputated just to get rid of it, so he grits his teeth and doesn't complain. ]

Shh~ I'm still perfecting my cockroach transformation, but that's a secret until I get it right! I think I'm pretty much there already, a roach...

[ but also, yeah, he squints a little at Ekkehardt ]

I think you might cut off my head without asking if you had a reason to.

I can't imagine an appropriate reason for cutting a child's head off, myself, so you'll have to enlighten me on whether there truly is any good reason for it.

[ He reserves that kind of thing for adults. Besides, decapitation is so messy. There are cleaner, more subtle ways to ease someone's passage into the afterlife, whether for mercy-killing or for disposal.

Not that he's going to say that. ]

Well, considering you survived this fall, you're probably well on your way to roachhood. Survivability is a good trait to have.

That's some allowance you're giving to children!! That's dangerous, don't you think?

[ Kids don't get a free pass. He's still waiting for somebody to yell at him, but Imelda's there in the corner of his eye so he'll probably hear it soon enough. Best draw this conversation out as long as he can- and it does help, a little, the distraction. ]

Anyways, nothing about this is survivability. It was just dumb luck... Ah, but maybe I'm luckier than most? I must be, to survive this long!

I'm a battlefield medic, not a combatant. My goodness, what a violent life you must think I lead.

[ He says, fully knowing he's demonstrated reflexes a doctor, even one with combat experience, wouldn't really need. ]

Luck is also a good attribute to have, though alas, it's not something you can cultivate.

[ He puts the finishing touches on that splint and bandage and raises his hands from Kano's arm. All done. ]

It's my hope you'll avoid playing on roofs until your arm is fully healed. Or until you've learned to not break your arm falling off them.

Hmm... How long did you say it'd take for it to be fully healed? How many days until I can play again?

[ Not breaking arms sounds kind of impossible here, so rebreakable bones it is. ]

A few days. Five to a week, to be absolutely certain.

It will be sore for a while even after it's healed, so at least try to be careful with it, won't you? [ He says this with the tone of someone who doesn't exactly expect to be cooperated with, because he knows Kano well enough that he'll probably be getting back into trouble in no time at all. ]

Fixing these kinds of injuries is what I'm here for, but I'd rather not have to keep treating them, if it's at all possible. [ Even with magic, it's still a painful and distressing thing to break bones and sustain large injuries, after all. ]

[ A few days to a week... He already knows pretty much what he's going to be doing these next few days, and it's nothing that'll put his bones in danger, so he just nods slowly. ]

I'll be careful~ As always~!

[ Tonight was an outlier!! but before that, he'd always taken care, so hopefully Ekkehardt will understand what he means. ]

I've got a couple hundred other bones, so these two I'll espe~cially take well care of! But I've also got to keep you sharp and in practice when something serious happens, right? You don't have to thank me for that!

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