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[ladybro]

Who: Kate Bishop and YOU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Lavandula + the Iskaulit.
When: Today

Ow, for futz sake -- [ the feed is shaky, at first -- as though the device and its owner has just fallen from some middling height. but it soon settles steady on an image of kate bishop -- bruised, dirty, but ultimately fine. although she's stubbornly wearing purples more often alligned with the spirit faction, she has alligned herself quite naturally with moxie -- deigning to at least braid white and gold ribbons into her black hair. sitting up on the poorly terra-formed ground, the feed reveals she's dressed in a superbly tailored hawkeye costume made from strong fabrics and flattering lines.

over her shoulder looms lavandula's tower. the intrepid young avenger followed the trills of a mysterious and now finds she herself thoroughtly defeated by the tower's bizarre internal architecture. this isn't the first time she's taken a tumble.

grumpily: ] This place is worse than a funhouse. [ ... ] Paging any and all Fleet folk -- anyone manage to track down this freaky-deaky flute music on Lavandula? All I'm finding are doors shut in my face. Not loving it.

[ LATER, she's back at the rehabilitation centre. she pays her modest fee and gets herself patched up -- bandages and all. so, once she takes a shuttle back to the iskaulit and shows up for work at málum, she's still looking a little worse for wear. take pity on her, málum patrons, because her usual bartender flair is suddenly subdued: she's got one arm in a sling. she'll still serve you, though. and with a smile! ...probably. ]

Comments

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[benames]

Uh - how about not following it before the whole Blair Witch Project starts and our devices will blackout and then we'll get eaten?

[ kate, please. ]

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[ladybro]

You think I can't take the Blair Witch? [ a crooked smile. ] Oh, ye of little faith.

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[benames]

That's what they always say and let me remind you, you're the tall, pretty, white girl.

[ pointing to himself ]

the short nerd who warned everyone always gets eaten first.

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[ladybro]

I'm not gonna let anything or anyone eat you. Hawkeye's honour.

[ instead of a regular salute, she instinctively signs the little gesture generally accepted to mean hawkeye -- figure no. 2. ]

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[benames]

Where were you when a T-Rex nearly made me and Winn his lunch.

[ STILL NOT OVER THE REX ATTACK ]

why would you go following that creepy music over to that creepy place, anyway? and without telling us so we can at least come and make sure you don't end up like that?

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[takingkarabusiness]

Kate? What happened?

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[ladybro]

[ with a puff of air, she blows a long strand of hair off her face. ]

I climbed. I fell. The weird gravity made the fall not so bad, though -- [ she can feel a sprain in her arm, but that's nothing new. ]

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[takingkarabusiness]

Is anything broken? Do you want me to come over and check? I have x-ray vision, you know.

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[ladybro]

[ x-ray vision, sure, but: ]

How's your First Aid certification?

[ kate's teasing. honest. ]

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[takingkarabusiness]

Current.

[ the DEO surely made her go over the basics ]

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[wolfehawke]

You know you don't have to come in like that. Or better yet, I know someone you could see to get it fixed up.

[Kate and Adalwolfe have overlapping shifts today, Wolfe much more upbeat than he was last month, and all to do with Anders waking up. He's been a giant goober about it, honestly, even humming and whistling at intervals when he cleans or pours drinks.]

Anders is a healer you know. And I could get the bruises and scrapes for you; my healing is good enough for that at least.

[ladybro]

[ -- watch with awe and amazement as she grips a wine bottle with her good arm and works the cork free with her teeth. determination at work, ladies and gents! ]

Pshaw, [ she scoffs around the stopped stuck between her teeth, ] these aren't bruises and scrapes. These are badges.

[ she's teasing. mostly. kate's never had the healing factor boasted by many of her teammates -- so she doesn't always play well with the prospect of 'healing magic'. even so, she appreciates the offer. ]

[wolfehawke]

What did you even do to break your arm?

[He accepts her good-natured rejection of healing. She's already been patched up and in no danger, and he's well aware of some people's distrust of magic or even the idea of getting too used to magical healing and not being able to naturally heal as well without it. He's a little dubious about that one, but he's not a Circle mage and so he doesn't have all of the same book learning as other mages do.

He reaches over for the bottle and pours the glasses as intended.]

Must have been some fight.

[ladybro]

Not really. Not unless you call a tussle with some rock-hard ground a fight. [ and luckily the arm's just a bad sprain -- not that she hasn't dealt with broken bones in the past.

could be worse. she could be like clint, prone to six-week stays in the hospital. ]

I was down on that meditation moon. There's, like, this spooky tower? Just outside the settlement borders?

[wolfehawke]

So you decided to explore it?

[No judgement. He probably would have done the same if he was at all interested in the meditation moon. He's not since he's not so much the type to sit in quiet reflection and contemplation, or... he wasn't until Kate brought up the much more exciting prospect of a haunted tower.]

What did you find out? Other than how hard the ground is.

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[winn]

[ if winn looks like crap, well, that's cuz that's about how he feels, the past month has been rough on him. ]

It looks like your face got really well acquainted with those doors. Are you ok?

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[ladybro]

I'm golden. [ a hapless smile. ] Nothing an ice-pack and a long shower can't fix.

[ and stitches. and maybe some salves. ]

-- You?

[ 'cause you somehow look worse than her, dude. just in a different way. ]

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[winn]

Next time, see your tech-support before the quest.

[ rubbing the back of his head in his signature discomfort move ]

Haven't walked into anything all day.

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[ladybro]

[ she likes trying to solve a problem with her own muscle and sinew before she rings tech-support. it's a whole thing. ]

I'm okay. Honest. I've been worse after field-hockey matches. Y'know, when I still bothered to play.

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[winn]

I feel like that's more of a testament to how you play field hockey.

[ but he's not really fretting like he would have before winter and sascha and all these comas. maybe he's starting to toughen up. you know, just a little. ]

How's the suit working out for you? It's looking good.

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[onlyanapple]

[Crowley would hate it if his employees got the notion he actually cared about them, even if it's blatantly obvious that he does. Still, appearances must be kept. He does frown slightly at the sight of Kate with one less useful arm. ]

Do I even want to know how you did that to yourself?

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[ladybro]

I fell. From a tower. [ ... ] It was very Disney of me, I think.

[ except for the part where she's now uncorking wine bottles with her teeth. kate is determined not to let the sling impede her work, and by all accounts she remains cheerful.

[onlyanapple]

Only if you sang a daring I Want song as you dropped down.

[At least she can still work, still...]

I dunno, Do you want healing or something? I don't like it getting around that much, but I can do that.

[ladybro]

It's fine -- really, I don't mind knitting together the old fashioned way. [ she flashes him a mild smile, as though this isn't the first offer of supernatural healing she's turned down. ]

The offer's noted, though. And appreciated. Maybe if I ever get myself into a more serious sorta scrape...

[onlyanapple]

Eh, some people prefer it that way.

[Given the look Adalwolfe gave him, he's learned his lesson about just straight up doing it. ]

Certainly. Do try not to bleed everywhere when you come to me, if that's the case, of course.

[He's probably joking.]