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ways_infirmary2013-08-25 02:12 am
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Guppy and Hannibal spent a fair amount of time working on Sunshine yesterday, and she is currently resting in one of the beds.
She could probably do with some gentle company.
She could probably do with some gentle company.
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"Bar takes good care of her patrons, but I can imagine she... thinks she knows better than we do, some of the time."
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Her ribs and collarbone would protest, if she were to try and twist in the ways required to pick up the vase on her own.
"My mother was a florist, when I was little."
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He touches a petal on a sunflower.
"Do you know the story of Clytie?"
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"Just minor things. Some flowers can act as minor protection from harm, or offer warning against a threat without the person having to name the threat aloud."
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"I know when I was a kid, people would use flowers to give messages sometimes. 'Don't forget me,' things like that."
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She adds, wry, "I still have to watch my mouth - some of my world's slang is centered on the names of different gods and goddesses, and some of them do come here."
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"I'd rather not have to explain to Thor what it means when something in my world is said to be 'totally Thor.'"
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"New Arcadia's Other Museum was supposed to be a big deal for the city, but the overall effect is.... eh. Most of the exhibits are real lowest-common-denominator stuff. So, like that. Totally Thor. To get into their real holdings you have to have like three Ph.Ds and dispensation from an actual god."
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"Anyway, he's not much like the myths and legends make him out to be, at least those I've heard, so there's next to no danger there."
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And he's not a drunken lecher! Even with just that, he's already winning. But Thor when Sunshine met him was genuinely nice.
"How have you been, Steve? I'm sorry about the pies on your birthday. There was... a sudden upset in plans that pre-emptively prevented pie-making."
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"I'm... adjusting. It's weird sometimes, adjusting to a new century, but I've got some good friends and I've got Orpheus, and when it gets to be too much, I come here."
[ooc: Bedtime. Slowtime okay?]
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Sudden decapitated heads of humanoid fish-creatures in fridges will do that to a person! Especially if the person in question is a squeamish baker.
"I'm glad you have support from your friends in your world, and Orpheus, and your friends here. It's not an adjustment anyone should be expected to make easily. If you ever need something to do, you know, to get your mind off things - well, I've found kneading dough to be very therapeutic."
She may already be training herself not to think of what she'll do for the same feeling of centered calm in the coming weeks until her fractured clavicle allows her to put pressure on her hand or lift things again.
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"I'll try that sometime," Steve says. "I've never baked much. I should change that.
"Do you want to talk about what happened with the pie? Or--" He gestures toward her latest wounds. "Any of it?"
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