Third Gate [Video]

[forsometimenow]

Who: Jennifer Keller and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Near the docking area of the bug ship, the goodship Wonderduck... idk, give a place and she'll be there.
When: June 22nd

[The video message is short; Jennifer sounds like her mind is elsewhere as she speaks.]

Part of being a doctor is learning your limits- and having to acknowledge that sometimes, there's nothing you can do. That no matter what your skill level is, that no matter how hard you try, there are some patients you can't save, and being unable to save them doesn't make you a bad doctor.

Sometimes I need to try really hard to keep that in mind.

[Anybody who finds Jennifer- at the medical station she helped set up, in the Wonderduck, or elsewhere- will find her quiet (or quieter than usual) and contemplative, looking at some data written down on a tablet. It's about the bugs, and the fungus that has infested them, if anyone cares to look.]

Comments

[forsometimenow]

[Jennifer smiled.]

Ah- don't worry about it. It helps to consider every possibility... it might come in handy later. I try to be an idealist, but sometimes you have to be a realist, too.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

[Wanda smiles weakly, but her eyes still seem forlorn as she speaks.]

I do not know which one I prefer.

[forsometimenow]

Both ways of thinking have their advantages. Sometimes being an idealist isn't the best... kinda like now, when we're faced with so many uncertainties and maybes and probably-nots.

[notmutantbutmiracle]

And what does your realist thinking make of this current situation?

[Wanda's words may sound callous, but, in truth, she is looking to Dr. Keller for perhaps some kind of guidance or advice. The revelation of the bugs' or, rather, aliens' true nature has left Wanda feeling strangely empty. There is certainly some guilt and sadness, but even stronger than these emotions is a sense of peculiar emptiness. Along with a faint sense that this all feels too depressingly familiar to her.]