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Rose Vasiliyeva ([info]finefeathers) wrote in [info]cirque_rp,
@ 2017-10-31 18:50:00

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Who: Orion and Rose
Where: The Burning Palace
When: Midafternoon, October 22
What: Healer talk
Warnings: Probably none


Rose wasn't thrilled at the thought of being inside the grounds of the Tower, but she wasn't mad about the weather. It reminded her a little of the start of winter back home, which was bittersweet as always. More importantly, it was another excuse to get out her most comfortable sweaters, which felt at times like cashmere armor, insulating her against the literal and metaphorical cold. Today's was a deep plum, impossibly soft and with the unfortunate habit of sliding off one shoulder to expose the charcoal tank worn underneath. She twitched it up again as she made her way with a full bag from the Bandaid Station to the Burning Palace, her walk brisk and businesslike.

She made her way inside, the tent warm even though the night's performances were hours off. It had become her habit to stash medical supplies out of the way at all the attractions, as speed was often a critical factor in case of an accident. The sooner an injury could be treated, the less work there was to be done when the injured finally made it to the infirmary - and, hopefully, a faster recovery.

For the Burning Palace, she'd put together a kit with extra emphasis on burn injuries - even if the performer was immune, an overzealous guest likely wasn't. Nonstick bandages, sterile gloves, antibiotic ointment, pads for cool compresses, a basin for soaking, aloe vera gel, painkillers, gauze, and interestingly enough, a roll of plastic wrap. It was this last that she was having difficulty fitting into the supply box, a red and white plastic thing that was sturdy enough to survive being accidentally kicked around and bright enough to notice when needed.

"Come on, you bastard," she muttered to herself, taking most of the supplies out again to try yet another configuration that might work. "This is your house now, live in it."


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[info]intoashes
2017-11-20 01:06 am UTC (link)
All Orion really wanted in the world was someone to help him figure it all out. His family, Baba Violetta, and his cousins, they knew as much as witches might know, but there were large holes of information. At times, Orion felt in a gilded cage where he was watched over, taken care of, and left utterly alone.

"As far as I know, it is literal." His brows furrowed in self-reflection. "I heal myself with flame, but I once made one of our horses come back from near death by my tears hitting it. I don't really allow people to bottle them or whatever. That creeps me out, but-" He shrugged again. "Others being injured, well, those situations are intense."

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[info]finefeathers
2017-11-21 11:33 pm UTC (link)
"I won't ask, then," Rose said, referring to the bottling of his tears. She had wondered if he'd ever done that, set aside emergency stores for times when he couldn't be present or medics needed to work especially fast; a follow up question to that would have been about efficacy. Rose figured it might as well not hurt to ask that anyway. "Do they lose potency when bottled and stored?" she asked. "Or do you just not enjoy the thought of bottles of your tears sitting around?" A case could be made for either.

"I'm sorry I'm not able to help you discover more of your kind," she said sincerely. She'd not had a lot of time with her family, but she'd grown up knowing the full extent of what she was and what she needed to do to survive. Of course, it wasn't especially complicated, either.

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[info]intoashes
2017-11-23 06:32 pm UTC (link)
Orion's eyes dropped to the ground at her question. He couldn't blame her, she was after all a modern doctor even if she could heal by supernatural means. Baba Violetta had never been too fond of doctors, but they rarely needed them as over half the clan were cunning-folk. "I don't actually know. I've just been brought up with a distaste of having parts of me in someone else's possession."

With a shrug, he set his extinguished poi on one of the prop shelves above where the medical kit was kept. "I don't expect help, really. There's so many stories of mythical birds and most of us seem to be real, but not exactly like the story." He could not say that he was not disappointed. There had been hope in knowing that the doctor was different from the shifter birds. But it had always been in Orion's personality to recognize that the past could not change and there was no use trying to hang onto it.

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[info]finefeathers
2017-11-26 02:19 am UTC (link)
"I can't speak for others, but I know my people used to only visit the sick as birds to heal them," Rose ventured. "If people spent all their time looking for magic birds, they spent a little less time looking for magic people. I imagine our various people have encouraged that sort of misinformation to make us harder to find. All the same," she added, "it is my hope to learn as much as I can about the supernatural species here." Her ability told her much of what she needed to know to treat them, at least which parts didn't just take the same treatments her human medical training already covered, but she was always seeking new knowledge. "If I find anything about your people, I'll be sure to share it with you."

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[info]intoashes
2017-11-27 03:54 pm UTC (link)
Orion gave a soft scoff. "I've been encouraged to stay out of my bird form as much as possible. Baba Violetta doesn't trust the Fae here," he remarked, off subject. As kind of a woman Baba Violetta was, in general, she had a healthy amount of distrust- not just because the Cirque filled its ground with gadje in both employees and guests, but because death had bad luck attached to it.

Scratching his chin again before pushing his hair out of his face, Orion gave a shrug. "Do you want to study me, doctor?" He supposed if anyone should be allowed it would be another mythical bird who merely sought knowledge without the uncaring nature a scientist demanding information by destroying the very thing they studied. He would not want his family finding out about it, though. They would take him out of the circus as fast as the shifting wind.

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[info]finefeathers
2017-11-30 03:03 am UTC (link)
Rose crossed her arms over her chest, absentmindedly twitching the slipping sweater back up over her shoulder. "I don't think you want to be studied, Orion," she said evenly. "Not in the way I'm equipped to study you." She was a doctor. A surgeon. Her studies involved cutting people open to see how they worked, or how she could fix whatever was broken with them.

"If there are things you want to know, specific things, you can ask and I can try to find a way to learn the answers you want. But there are things about your people - culture, history, other intanglibles - that I can't learn for you. If you're curious, I can try to reach out what sources I may still have out there, but I've been a long time in the human world."

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[info]intoashes
2017-12-03 04:17 am UTC (link)
A small smile pulled at the corners of his mouth appreciatively. Orion wanted to feel like a part of something and for the moment thought that if the doctor studied him in the manner he thought she would it might help him discover something. All he wanted was to rid himself of that feeling that he would forever be looking for something he had no idea what it was.

Orion shook his head. "Nah, it's fine. If I don't know it now maybe it's not time for me to learn it yet." With another shrug, he stepped away from the doctor. "I should get back to practicing, but maybe... when you're not busy we could go flying together? No studying, no supplies and no healing, just a little company on my flight?"

He would wait for her reply, but the Romani boy had started moving back to the random objects that lit on fire that he had pulled out earlier. "Have a good day, Doc."

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[info]finefeathers
2017-12-04 05:36 pm UTC (link)
The request took her by surprise, which echoed faintly in her expression before resolving itself back to her usual cool politeness. She wasn't typically the sort of person who garnered invitations to do things; her unwillingness to let people in usually took care of those urges in others. "I would enjoy that, Orion," she said after a moment with a small nod. "You have a good day as well."

As he turned back to his props, she gathered what few things she was taking back to the clinic and made her way out.

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