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Who: Wrath (and maybe you?)
Broadcast: Entire fleet
Action: Windrose medlab, she ain't goin anywhere
When: June 11 (four days after this mess)

[Text]

extra large protein lovers pizza
++ spicy soypperoni
+ red chilies
++ mazer beer ipa or equivalent 1 6pack

5 strippers
pref male
++ purple body glitter
++ portable sound system
+ boa constrictor

deliver to: lt wrath, windrose

[Audio]

[She doesn’t quite know how bad she looks, but she knows how bad she feels. There is no way the people in the fleet need to see this. So it’s audio only. Wrath’s words slur faintly, like someone who is profoundly tired rather than drunk. Chems do that to her.]

Hey everyone. Um. I had an accident and I’m gonna be… down for a little while. I know I wanted to do a coffee thing for all my brother soldiers but… that’s gonna have to wait. Til I’m on my feet again. Really sorry, guys. But it’ll happen. Just a little later.

Anyway like last time I was in traction I just ordered pizza and strippers, but I tried to do that here and it doesn’t work? And there’s no pudding or nurses. So I’m kind of super bored since I can’t move around right now. So anyone want to like… watch vids or play games or something? I could maybe figure out how to do chess on the network. Or ask someone for help. Or tell stories. Or like. Visitors would be nice? Yeah.

Officer Snuggles says hi, everyone. [The fox yips.] And. Um. Bye~

[Action]

[Wrath, almost completely immobilized in traction to keep her spine from crumbling completely, occupies the Windrose’s medlab for the timebeing, Officer Snuggles normally curled up on the corner of the bed when he’s not out patrolling. Wrath herself looks like hell, nasty bruises and stitched up head and facial lacerations, her left eye’s sclera still crimson. But she’s doing her best to maintain a positive attitude. There’s not really anything else for her to do.

Visitors are what she really, really wants. Being stuck in bed and unable to move around and really touch anything is starting to eat at her badly. It’s a vague sort of unease, blurred out by the drugs, but it’s definitely not doing her anxiety levels any good. Before the ports are removed, nothing feels right anyway, which is another sort of alarming. She's got the painting frame for entertainment beyond staring at the ceiling, but her fine motor control is terrifyingly lacking, and she doesn't think she can blame it all on the drugs.

And Winter… she’s not thinking about what actually happened if she can help it. That wasn’t Winter. He wasn’t at home when that all went down. It was a fight, she survived, everything is okay now. She’s tough as hell. She’s not going to think about how it feels like falling. She’s not going to think about how last time, Compliance showed up and tried to take her right out of her hospital bed. She’s not going to drive herself crazy with worry about how Winter is doing and if everyone is treating him okay and if everyone gets it wasn’t his fault. And she’s sure as hell not going to think about how next time, it might be her turn.]

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But see, it's better to be little. It concentrates all the awesomeness.

[ he laughs ]

Another awesome t-shirt idea. You're a gold-mine.

Guess I can go into the shirt business if the whole combat instructor thing falls through.

Hey I'd hire you. If, you know, I actually had a shirt business.

[ but who has the time. ]

We could make shirts here. That could be a fun thing to do.

You come up with the print, and I'll make it.

The print? You mean the design for it?

That wouldn't be hard... I mean, I haven't done that much with text, but I already draw a lot... [Hmmm...]

If you wanna draw something we can make iron-ons. It probably won't last more than a couple washes but - it could still be cool.

[ he doesn't trust his embroidery skills with a complicated drawing. his mario bros ripoff employs stick figures. ]

Oh, that could be fun! Do. Um. Iron-ons? On work suits. And if they're not permanent, that's actually cool, because it means you can try lots of different things!

Exactly! I'll see about getting us some sheets for that!

[ smiling, excited he could come up with something that seems to cheer her up ]

And in the meantime, we can work on text designs.

[Winn is officially the best. Thanks to him, she has A Project.]

We should make a special iron-on for Kitty.

[Just in case he needs a few extra brownie points with his girlfriend.]

Oh, definitely. I can like... move my hand enough to work on my frame.

[ stick with him: making up projects is his actual superpower. ]

I bet she'd love that!

[ nah, wrath, even if he'll do the work, he's counting these as yours. ]

I can have someone drop off my fabric stash.

[ yeah. that's the kind of stash he has. ]

You have a fabric stash? Awesome!

[She's got the world's tiniest yarn stash. She can dig.]

My frame should be like leaning against the bed somewhere on your side. If you can attach it to the railing, we can start getting stuff sketched out.

Yeah, I stocked up on the moon, and Margaery got me some really cool threads, too.

[ so they can go crazy with colors on the embroidery! ]

Sure, yeah -- [ he gets it and fumbles with attaching it for a few moments ] like this?

What do you do with it all? I don't have any fabric, but I have a little bit of yarn. Winter taught me how to knit. I'm not very good at it, but I'm practicing!

[She watches.] Yep, you got it. Okay, so slide the stylus out of the top, see the little button there? It'll pop out. And just put it in my hand. Then I can do everything else.

[ he does as instructed ]

Well, I made Kara and Kitty's dresses for the masquerade, and now I'm, [ making a bunch of superhero suits, but he doesn't use the regular fabrics for those ] just rebuilding a wardrobe.

[ which is hard because he's trying o come up with a new style for himself, one that won't remind kitty of her ex. it's hard, because he doesn't know the guy, but he seems to half be the guy.

he pulls open his jacket, to show her the t-shirt he has on ]

Like, I made this.

You did? That's so cool! Kitty's dress was super pretty. You're really good at this. [Hm. If she ever gets out of this bed and is on her feet again, she wonders if she could get Winn to make her something like a Wrath platoon uniform. It would feel so much more comfortable.]

And that's a neat t-shirt! [It takes her an embarrassingly long time to puzzle out the text, mostly because she has difficulties reading. And then she has to puzzle out the joke, because she does know what atoms are, sort of dimly, but the information is there since it relates to ordnance and--oh! Oh! And then she laughs, because it's her sort of joke.]

What an awesome shirt!

[ she totally could, he would love that. it would actually make his day if she asked. ]

Thanks -- [ he smiles, he's pretty proud of that dress, ok! it's a shame kitty hasn't had a reason to wear it since. maybe he should give some reasons to do it, plan out some proper dates...on a spaceship...this is going to take some creativity. ]

I can't take all the credit, I followed Kitty's instructions on the dress [ he exaggerates, the design was mostly his. ] and I have a shirt like this back home.

Maybe the next time we can dress up fancy... if you have time could you make one for me? Something super cute?

I like designing stuff, I just can't really make anything. I'm not good at that part...

Of course - it'd be an honor.

[ he smiles. hopefully this time he'll get a little more of a warning - actually maybe he should just make one while there's a lull in the regular work so he won't have to pull a week of all-nighters, like he did with the masquerade. that'd probably be smart. ]

I can just make it for you now so you'll have it ready, if there's a fitted outfit I can borrow for measurements - [ since, you know, measuring her while incapacitated is going to be tricky. ] Hey, you know what, that works perfectly cuz I'm better at execution than design. We'll make a great team!

I think I still have the dress from the masquerade in my cabin? It wasn't the best tailoring ever, but it wasn't bad. [Enthusiasm levels growing~] Really? Yeah! This'll be so much fun. I love like... working with color. We're gonna make some awesome stuff.

We should totally make a pretty dress for Kitty first, just because. And then you can like take her out to the Iskaulit and have a nice dinner or something.

[ he should. she'd like that, he knows. but the thought of going back to the iskaulit...he's just not ready. ]

Let's start with you - I just gave Kitty a gift, if I don't space them out, I'm gonna start looking obsessive.

Oh, okay! [No idea about the Iskaulit thing. But... she has odd ways of thinking about things, strange blind spots.] Gives us more time to think about it anyway.

[ he's never seen so much blood in his life, anyone as hurt as her..he only came with the medics, and still he's traumatized. ]

Exactly! So what kinda dress do you want? What's your favorite color?

[ that's so much easier for him to deal with than all the real and serious feelings he's feeling, ok. and it's something he can do for her, he's so desperate to do something. ]

[If Wrath knew Winn had seen her, she'd feel incredibly bad about it. Probably for the best.]

I like really flowy dresses, you know? And my favorite color is pink!

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