driftfleet | he's probably fine.

Who: Mikleo
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Huntress!
When: Now, basically

[You know what's great about being a seraph? Never getting sick. You know what's not great about being a seraph? Having zero frame of reference for what being sick is like when you experience it for the first time. And after a month of quietly enduring and/or ignoring it, despite being a water elemental trapped on a planet full of poisonous water, it's finally caught up to him.

It doesn't help that this realization comes hand in hand with the fact that he's been upgraded to captain, apparently, which is as nonsensical a decision as he's ever heard from the Atroma. The one perk - besides the sudden lack of malevolence on the Huntress due to Greed's departure - means that he now has a big bed to curl up and be miserable in.]

I have a few questions.

is there some sort of guide for captain's duties? for those who lack experience.

also:

how do you tell whether you are dying or just sick

[...Those questions should probably have had a completely different priority, but whatever. He's too sick to be bothered.

He makes an attempt at sending this out as an anonymous communication, but he's a bit too light-headed and bleary-eyed to pull it off, so it probably doesn't work too well. He still doesn't show up on camera, so there is that.]

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Whether or not you get better.

I suppose I invited that one.

[SO very helpful.]

[Time to drop some wise words of experience:]

1. Nope.

2. I think that's what doctors are for.

It'd help if you'd mentioned what was wrong with you.

[honestly she sort of assumes he's just hungover or breathed in some of that bad air]

I'm certain that it's poison.

[that would be a double-negative.]

I'm pretty sure you're not dying, Mikleo. [Though you are definitely sick and that is weird. Would be scarier if Dezel hadn't gotten sick first.]

[w o w kurt so wise]

doctors don't know anything about my kind, so it's hard to tell for them.

[Uuuugh you jerk, don't make him talk.]

Sure feels like it. We're not immune to poison...

oh

Sorry, man. I didn't realize it was like that!

[A brief pause before he sends a follow-up.]

But, maybe they could have some insights anyway? You never know. At least doctors would have a better shot than most of us!

Everyone else's level of dramatics.

[....Oh boy.]

They made you captain?

[But you're like...invisible to most people? What even Atroma]

And I could try to examine you, if you'd like- though I'll admit I don't know anything about seraph physiology.

Though, I'm wiling to guess you're not dying.

Most people can't even see or hear me, so my options are limited there. But if things don't improve soon, I'll have no choice.

[He's a bit salty about that; he's always been a great healer, so this is ridiculous.]

wouldn't that mostly rely on whether or not they can tell, too?

It's absurd, I know. I've barely even spoken with most of the crew due to their lack of resonance.

[And how is he supposed to introduce himself now? "Hello, I'm your new captain, I've actually been here for months"??]

I'd like to assume that as well, but I've honestly never felt like this before.

[It's. Kind of terrifying?]

Well, you don't sound too certain of yourself, so you might as well depend on their reactions.

Edited 2016-04-26 02:06 (UTC)

Yeah... [Hmmm] Maybe you could have Sorey be your spokesperson? Like some sort of...shadowy, mysterious leader.

[Then again Sorey and Mikleo are about as shadowy as a desert at high noon. BUT ANYWAY- ]

Can you tell me how you're feeling? The symptoms, I mean.

I guess.

[Though he'd have to be up-front about it to depend on that.]

That would require them to be able to see me, though.

I imagine I'll have to. Though whether or not they'll take orders from him is another story.

[He has some good leadership qualities, but "authority" has never been one of them. Not that Mikleo can really consider himself good at giving orders, either. It'll be an experience, either way.]

For symptoms... I've been getting physically weaker for a while now, and sometimes it hurts to move. My body feels hot, and my chest is burning, which isn't normal at all. I've tried to avoid going out, but it looks like proximity alone is enough to have an effect on me.

If you really think you're dying, you won't care about showing your face, idiot.

[IDIOT YOURSELF]

It isn't a matter of me caring or not. I'm literally invisible to most people.

Looks like it. Maybe because it was your element?

...you don't have to talk if you don't want to. [sorey's just more comfortable with it] Want me to bring you anything?

That's fine, you actually want to keep orders down to a minimum anyway. [It's not like these crews signed up for the military after all]

...Sounds like you have a fever. It might be the augment trying to burn the toxins out. It's done that with other patients.

Have you had these symptoms since we've come here?

[toss up between not wanting to strain himself by talking versus being happy that they are talking, all things considered. Things have been weird, after all.]

You don't...

[...have to, he almost says, but he's been so stubborn about not sharing it all this time, and look where it's gotten him. Maybe it's about time.]

...Is there ice in the kitchen? I don't think I can make any right now.

Okay, you make another good point.

But yeah, we don't have a lot of options.

Maybe you could try to make a list of your symptoms? Maybe that could help out!

It started gradually. It was subtle enough that I didn't notice at first. Probably because I'm not used to it- the same thing happened the first time I felt malevolence back home.

[In a way, this is worse- at least with malevolence, they can do something about it.]

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