( VOICE | DAY 32 PRE UVI ATTACK )

[enflame]

( Knowing there will soon be an attack on Aimintas, Emil made it a point to try and get the telepathic attention of the only friend he had from back home to make sure he was alright. After no response and a sharp pain in his signet, he'd set off to try and find Lalli, only to locate his comatose body in the deserted city.

It's not that he hasn't seen this before being that Lalli has Finnish Magic Weirdness running through his veins, but the fact that he knows there's apparently about to be some kind of attack later on in the day...Lalli please wake up, my man.

Things Emil has done to try and wake his friend up:

smooshing his face

holding his nose

slapping his face

shaking him gently

shaking him vigerously

yelling at him

trying to feed him fish

trying to feed him a bath bomb

Things that have worked:

none of the above

If he could have at the time, he probably would have asked more questions about Lalli's previous weird magic coma -- or maybe this is totally something different. Either way, Emil is panicking a little bit and he can already feel the heat of his magic going through his body. maybe being on fire will wake Lalli up )

Uhm...! ( His voice is shaky as it loudly broadcasts to the rest of the coven. Back home no one particularly gave a shit about Lalli being in a coma, but maybe someone here has more compassion. ) Can someone help me wake up my friend!?

( He knows you wanted to sleep bud, but now isn't exactly the time. )

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[talim]

[ never fear! enter doctor jude mathis. ]

I'm a doctor. Can I check his vitals?

[enflame]

Yeah, sure. Of course. ( Having a medic that's actually useful would be a nice change of pace. )

He's got a pulse, but I don't know what else to check.

[talim]

[ jude presses gentle fingertips to the soft flutter of a pulse on the inside of lalli's wrist, counting the beats in his head — one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. sure enough, the timing is off. his pulse is definitely there, like emil said, but it's slower than it should be.

for good measure, jude rests his hand atop lalli's ches next. just in case. there's nothing different; it's the same result, a faint pitter patter of a beating heart. he's not sure whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but as long as lalli's breathing is steady... ]

Wish I had a stethoscope on me... His pulse is a little slow, but it's nothing dangerous. Don't worry.

[ jude clears his throat and scans lalli up and down, observing him carefully. he doesn't take his eyes off him when he speaks again. ]

Does this, uh... Does this happen a lot?

[enflame]

Once. ( It suddenly jolts to him that he's only known Lalli for a short amount of time in the grand scheme of things. ) Well, that I know of. It has something to do with Finnish mages.

( Watching Jude examine Lalli gently, Emil suddenly thinks of something else to maybe mention, even though magic bullshit might not have anything to do with physical wellness. )

He had blood coming out of his nose. Oh, and here. ( He points to Lalli's tear ducts, though he'd cleared it away when he brought him into the suite area. )

[talim]

[ jude has no idea what the heck a finnish mage is, but he supposes it might be important to ask. ]

Can you explain to me what a Finnish mage i—

[ jude stops in his tracks, trailing off as his eyes widen when he realizes just where emil is pointing. nosebleeds are nothing to be concerned about, but... ]

Wait, wait, hold on. There?

[ jude points at his tear ducts too. was he? crying blood? please don't tell him he was crying blood. ]

[enflame]

( Well, not crying. More like some was leaking out a little. A single stream of shoujo blood tears. )

Yeah, there! ( Reiterating this fact just seems to make Emil more fervent. He missed out on Lalli's blood leaking last time this happened, so consider him more than taken aback. ) You're a doctor; what does that mean? Is he going to die!?

( THE BLOOD IS MAKING HIM SECOND GUESS THE WHOLE PULSE THING )

[talim]

[ jude takes a deep, steadying breath. stay cool, doctor mathis. ]

Alright. There's good news, and there's... Uh. Not-so-good news.

The good news is that, no, there's not a chance he's going to die. His pulse would be much weaker if he were in any serious danger, and if you need me to, I can continue to check it periodically.

[ he frowns, rubbing at the back of his neck before continuing. ]

The not-so-good news is that I've never come across a scenario involving blood coming from the tear ducts before, let alone heard of such a phenomenon. I may have underestimated my own abilities. I can't tell you exactly what it means.

[ his frown deepens into something guiltier. jude is never content with being unable to help a patient; unable to be useful to someone in need. ]

I should have asked this right off the bat. How long has he been out?

[enflame]

( Well, at least not dying is good news...it's not that Emil has never seen blood before, but he's 100% sure it can come out of your nose but it isn't supposed to come out of your eyes.

Fuckin' mages. Emil lets out a sigh, at least grateful about the bigger portion of the news. )

A couple of hours? I don't really know. ( Maybe if he was a better person he wouldn't be put off by Jude's inability, but he's frustrated -- aren't doctor's supposed to know this stuff? They're a tier above shitty medics, anyway. ) But you really don't know what that means? Isn't that kind of important?

[talim]

[ the guilt shows in both jude's expression and voice. as far as he's concerned, emil has every right to be frustrated with him. he's frustrated with himself, too. ]

I can't know what it means if a similar case has never been studied.

Just try not to panic, okay? He's going to be fine, I promise. Is it alright if I reexamine him when he wakes up, though? Maybe then I can get a better sense of what's happening.

I'm Jude, by the way. Doctor Jude Mathis.

[enflame]

( Oh no, Emil's irrationality plus Jude's guilt isn't a good combination, gomen Jude.

Not panicking is usually impossible for Emil, but he chills out enough to actually listen to what Jude has to say. )

Yeah, I mean...if you can maybe figure out why it happens, it can be stopped if it happens again, right? ( The whole magic sleeping shit seems like something he'll have to live with, but the eye bleeding.....nah son. )

Oh and I'm Emil. That's Lalli. ( Gesturing to Coma Boy. You probably don't need last names because they're hard to pronounce and I'm not copypasting those dot letters, okay. )

[talim]

Of course. Every problem comes with a solution. I'm not giving up on Lalli. We'll figure it out together.

[ typical protag for you. jude offers emil a kind smile. ]

I wish the circumstances were better, but it's nice to meet you, regardless. Keep an eye on him. He needs someone like you.

[enflame]

( That eases his mind a little bit, even if the situation is pretty hopeless right now. There's not a real solution BUT it's still nice to know he won't be reading a will anytime soon. )

Nice to meet you -- thanks, I think. He's my friend from home and I need to take care of him, but things like this make it difficult at times.

( Among a laundry list of Lalli's other personality flaws, but you know. )

[talim]

Still, the fact that you're here and looking out for him despite those difficulties must mean a lot to him. It's better to stick together here.

[enflame]

I...don't really know about that. ( The last time before they spoke before this whole comatose debacle they fought a little. He doesn't really want to think about it though.

It's nice that other people seem to care since back home no one really bothered, and maybe that's something to take advantage of. )

Do you know anybody here? From back home, I mean.

[talim]

[ jude hangs his head, casting his eyes down at the ground. ]

No, I don't. I haven't been able to find even one familiar face. I just hope they're alright. It's difficult, not knowing. If I was carried off here, then is there a chance they were split up and carried off elsewhere, too? Are they still back home? Are they worried about me?

[ he pauses, looking sheepish. a little guilty, even. ]

... Sorry. I didn't mean to start rambling. It's just... This is a lot.

[enflame]

( Wow Jude -- way to be a Debbie Downer!! Truthfully, Emil has had a lot of feelings of homesickness and worry himself, and hearing some of those fears fully realized into actual concepts...it's a mark of how simple he is, but it also suddenly hurts his heart. )

If they weren't taken here, I don't know that they'd be taken somewhere else -- unless worldhopping space witches occur more than once, but even the one existing is a bit ridiculous.

It's...harder to say how things are going back home. And I'm sorry for that. You don't have to apologize for feeling down about things like that. It's natural, and of course you'd want to worry about those you know and care for.

[talim]

That's a fair point. Two worldhopping space witches seems rather unlikely.

[ he averts his gaze even further, an empty spot off to the side seeming terribly interesting to him. ]

Maybe, but... is it selfish to wonder whether or not they're managing just fine without me? Is it selfish to not know what I want the answer to that to be?

[ everyone wants to feel needed, maybe, but jude still can't seem to justify his own questions. this is some Personal Stuff. jude is surprised he's sharing these feelings at all. they're just sort of... spilling out. ]

[enflame]

( That sort of thinking is honestly unfamiliar to Emil, but Jude talking about it...he begins to think about it himself. On his team, he's the only one with his position, and the mission is wrapping up. Career wise, though, it's not like he's the only cleanser out there.

His family of course would miss him...the only other person who he really cares about is here. It seems simple to him, but also how unimaginable it is makes him feel a wave of sympathy for Jude. )

...I think people you care about will miss you because you're you. I can't say there aren't other doctors out there, but if you feel like this without them -- it makes sense they likely feel like this without you, right? I don't think hoping they miss you is selfish.

( At least that's how he hopes it works out. )

[talim]

[ jude's smile is lopsided, but it's a smile, all the same. ]

I appreciate that, Emil. Perhaps you're right. I'd like to hope it's not selfish. I just want to see their faces again.

... And I'm sorry I wasn't able to do more for Lalli. Really.

[enflame]

( He lets out a sigh that's about as lopsided as Jude's smile. )

It's alright. I'm beginning to think it's a lost cause -- not that he won't wake up. He and his magic are stubborn enough to sleep through whatever's going on, is what I mean. Nothing you can do about that.

[talim]

You might be right. Even so...

[ jude sighs right along with him. ]

Well, like I said, whether you believe it or not, he's lucky to have you.