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[guppy_sandhu]

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.

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Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"That's the one," Steve says. "And here I thought I had something cool to tell you. Oh, well.

"I know when I was a kid, people would use flowers to give messages sometimes. 'Don't forget me,' things like that."

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

"I devoured stories like that, as a kid," she admits, wry. "Myths and legends and folktales. When most kids got in trouble, they got their allowance taken away - I'd get my trips to the library or the used bookstore taken away."

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Books were some of my best friends, growing up," says Steve. "And I've been reading Greek mythology again lately, because of Orpheus."

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

Rae nods. "I did the same, when I found out one could meet gods and goddesses and faerie kinds here. I didn't... you know, I didn't want to make assumptions, or cause offense."

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."

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"I think I've managed to avoid that so far," he says with a laugh.

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

"Me too," she smiles. "Hopefully I'll continue to."

"I'd rather not have to explain to Thor what it means when something in my world is said to be 'totally Thor.'"

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"What does it mean, in your world?"

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine winces. "Usually something meant to be impressive and genuinely cool but that ends up just being big, loud, and kind of dumb."

"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."

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve laughs. "Yeah, don't tell him that."

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

"Yeaaaaaah," Rae winces.

"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."

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"He's pretty great," Steve agrees.

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

"He is," she smiles.

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."

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"It's no problem," he says. "We can try it some other time, if you want.

"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?]

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

"I'd like it if we could - something really upsetting happened when I went in to start on them, and it just kind of skewed the entire rest of the day."

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.

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"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?"

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

"Uh..." Sunshine winces. "Regarding the pies... I found out rather suddenly that someone had stored the rotting, decapitated head of a humanoid catfish-creature in the kitchen's fridge. The smell had kind of... permeated."

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve wrinkles his nose in sympathy. "Ugh. That would put anybody off baking."

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

"Yeah," she says, emphatically.

"It seems kind of... silly, in a way, considering everything," Rae murmurs. "I'm really very squeamish when it comes to things in the kitchen. Even mundane, ground-up hamburger meat gives me the chills. And I wasn't expecting for something in the fridge to be staring back at me."

She tries her best to keep her life as a baker separate from the rest of it. From the part of her life that leaves her stuck in an infirmary with a hodgepodge of injuries ranging from a variety of lacerations to a concussion, broken ribs, and a bruised lung.

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Well, if a kitchen is a safe place for you, something that ... disturbing would be really hard to handle. I'd think so, anyway."

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

"It really was," Rae nods. The kitchen has always been her place. Away from people, away from questions. The acts of mixing and kneading and baking a kind of therapeutic meditation.

"Not sure what I'm going to do in the coming weeks. I'm not sure how long it'll take me to heal from all this."

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Six weeks for broken bones," Steve says. "Unless they have some sort of advanced doodad that will speed up your healing, or if there's a god around to do it.

"...you know, I think Apollo might even like you. Sunshine and everything."

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

Rae can't help but wince at the thought of six weeks having to pass before she's back to normal. Or will things still be weird for a bit past that? She needs to know when she can go back.

Back to the fight.

"I met an Apollo here, once. A couple of years ago, now - he was doing a poetry-themed Happy Hour."

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"If it's the god Apollo, he can do healing. He healed Orpheus when someone broke his collar bone.

"But I don't know him well enough to, I don't know, summon him or whatever you do."

Re: Sunshine awake

[sunbaked_baker]

"I don't, either," she replies. "I just met him the once."

"Remembered enough high-school stuff about poetry to offer a line in dactylic hexameter for a free drink, but that's about it," she says, wry.

Re: Sunshine awake

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve nods slowly. "Otherwise, you just have to let time do its thing."