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[lucentia]

HELLO

"Greetings."

GOODBYE

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[lucentia]

I really feel as though I've troubled you enough...

[vacuous]

It'll trouble me more if I just walk away and have to wonder if your stitches are secretly infected.

[ Do you think he's above weaponising this to make troublesome patients behave, he's not. ]

[lucentia]

... Fair point. Very well.

[you win, tokinaga :pensive: ]

[vacuous]

But we should maybe not do it here.

[ It just feels weird and also he doubts there's any sterile stuff just in case. ]

[lucentia]

Hm? All right.

[still doesn't know what the issue is with this place but he has no reason not to listen to tokinaga.]

[vacuous]

I think the lab should be clean enough.

[ Letsa-go. Are your stitches okay, did Jan give you gangrene my son. ]

[lucentia]

[STOP. i'll be honest i forgot lucien was injured for like a month after the tdm. anyway, it's a deep stab on his arm i think. i say i think because the main game said arm and then the dlc said stomach and THOSE ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT BODY PARTS? but i said arm in tdm so.

the injury itself is not infected or anything or else lucien probably would've noticed sooner,,, though the stitches have been a borderline lost cause in terms of really doing anything since he reopened the wound on the tdm. dw about it. at least tsukasa helped him back then (tsukasa is presumably not a medical practitioner)]

[vacuous]

[ Oh that's me when I forgot exactly how bad Tokinaga's legs were so I had to be like he has a cane and now I think half the game thinks something happened to him the last few days when really he should've been like this from the start. So mood.

BUT HELP NOT THE ARM MIGRATING TO THE STOMACH HOW DO YOU FORGET SO MUCH. Maybe he had appendicitis afterwards.

Anyway. ]

Were you really going to just not say anything?!

[ LUCIEN!!! ]

[lucentia]

[highfives TOKINAGA YOUR LEGGIES!! also help imagine getting stabbed, having appendicitis, and then dying in the span of like three days]

Well, it hasn't been hindering me.

[vacuous]

[ JUST IN THE MIDST GETTING AN APPENDICITIS DIAGNOSIS

Would you say the wound is healed enough that Lucien could probably simply go without stitches anymore? ]

[lucentia]

[lucien probably would've spoken up sooner if he was bleeding all over the place/stressing about having to constantly change bandages (ig he switched to the tried and true mg method of using cloth as a makeshift replacement since he probably had to change the og ones at some point) so yea for convenience we'll say the wound can probably go without stitches*... wahoo

*lucien's lack of regard for not aggravating his injuries aside]

[vacuous]

[ Okay makes the careful decision to have the stitches removed so Lucien doesn't permanently gain Frankenstein aesthetic. By the sounds of it it doesn't seem too bad so unless Lucien turns out to be INCREDIBLY sensitive to the pain of stitches removal this probably isn't too bad. Medical professionals don't look at me I've looked at and vaguely studied all sorts of things but the one thing I don't know because I've had zero experience with them are how stitches go. ]

[lucentia]

[i also know nothing about stitches and have no desire to know so it's fine we bullshit things in this house

anyway lucien is probably pretty resilient to pain so yay.]

Thank you, Tokinaga. Again, I apologize for the trouble.

[vacuous]

I really do mean it that I think a little trouble here would save a lot of trouble later if you know what I mean.

[ By the looks of it, Lucien was probably going to be fine but what if he wasn't? It's about those possibilities. ]

[lucentia]

If it had grown worse, perhaps I could've used the river.

[instead of bothering lone pseudo-doctor tokinaga...]

[vacuous]

...

You shouldn't. You might go deaf, or blind, or lose all sense of touch, or something else...

[ Well, he thinks those were probably caused by the river. ]

[lucentia]

What!?

[APPALLED]

[vacuous]

So be honest when you've got an injury, okay!

[lucentia]

[interrupted from the cogwheels that were beginning to turn in his head—]

I wasn't trying to hide it. [or well he wasn't weeks ago. ignores the last few minutes.] It simply didn't seem important.

[he was just reminded of it because of the memory... and went huh maybe i should check...]

[vacuous]

Any other injuries!

[ From now on, he meant. ]

[lucentia]

[blinks like WHY IS HE BEING SCOLDED!! HE'S NOT A KID!!! OR A TROUBLEMAKER!!!]

I will do my due diligence to ensure you have no cause for concern.

[vacuous]

Good. Honestly!

[ Lucien truly is just that blorbo blingus that you want to feed soup to and make sure he's doing alright. ]

I'll have stern words if you don't.

[ No he won't. ]

[lucentia]

[how did this happen

also lucien definitely phrased that in a way so he wasn't lying if he gets injured and decides tokinaga doesn't need to know because in that scenario he also would not be causing tokinaga concern. though with that said, he's not looking to fuck himself up with injuries either so surely it will be fine.]

Oh? And what would stern words from you look like?

[vacuous]

[ How dare you ]

That's a surprise.

[lucentia]

[LOOK IT'S FINE he hasn't gotten injured here in weeks since that one time he almost bled out to death as a human sacrifice... if it's serious he won't be reckless with getting medical attention...]

That's quite ominous.