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[craters]

We've all had some time to settle in. Hopefully everyone's holding up all right!

For those of you I haven't spoken with, my name's Sakura. I'm both a doctor and healer and I have a little ad hoc clinic down by the docks. （ a helpful location ping follows this. ） If you ever find yourself needing medical care, please reach out and let me know. There's at least one other person here with medical experience that I know of as well, but I'll let them speak up if they want to make themselves known — and I'm happy to collaborate with anyone else, none of us can be everywhere at once.

（ paging terraria, party of bird. ）

As for my reason for addressing you all... I'm looking to keep blood on hand for medical emergencies, transfusions and any surgeries that may be necessary. If anyone is willing to come down to the clinic and give a donation, it'd be very appreciated. I promise it only hurts a little! And you'll even get a candy afterwards! While supplies last.

Those with O-negative and O-positive types would be ideal. If you don't happen to know what your blood-type is, I can run a test for you.

Thanks everyone!

（ she's almost finished, and it seems like that might have been the last thing... but a few minutes later, she clicks the feed on again: ）

I'm still looking for information on anyone who's undergone the soulbond as well. Purely for research purposes. You can reply anonymously if you'd like, or privately if that's easier. I promise anything you say will be kept confidential.

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[healthkit]

Don't much like doctors or needles if I'm gonna be honest, but if you're needing any help — [ He clears his throat. ] — suppose if there's anything I can do, you let me know.

[ Said a little stunted, like, you know, some kind of feral beast trying to be tame and polite.

He remembers Sakura, remembers the impression she'd made on him, and thinks now that if there's some way he could be useful, well, why not? ]

[craters]

（ well, she'd recognize that strange accent anywhere... ）

Are you saying after everything we went through together, you don't like me?

（ you know, hunting harpies... sakura crushing a rock in her bare hand because she was pissed he was underestimating her... normal things. normal, sane people things. ）

How's your customer service skills?

（ is she being serious. is she trolling him. who knows? ）

[healthkit]

[ This is absolutely trolling, all of it! Putting him on the spot like that, he clears his throat again like he's gotta think of something appropriate to say. A bantering remark, so to speak. ]

Now, I'm not sayin' that — hardly took you for a doctor, the way you dealt with those harpies.

[ And the rock. Yeah. It'd been completely, utterly normal.

Maybe his humour's been dulled down to a pathetic wisp of nothingness by now because he's fresh out of quips and it takes him almost too long to respond. ]

Ah ...

[craters]

Oof. That bad, huh?

（ it's okay buddy she'll give you a humour transfusion. luckily, she has her fair share of it. ）

Then I guess you're stuck with blood donation for now instead of meet-and-greets at the door. Do you happen to know your blood type?

[healthkit]

Might be a little rusty.

[ That's the most he'll confess, okay, but it's pretty clear even without the verbal confirmation. He's trying though, and that's what matters. It's ... survival of a different sort here. ]

Knew it once. Hasn't mattered in years though. But whatever it is, you can take it.

[ It's clean, at least. And probably resilient to a whole slew of different things. ]

[craters]

'Little'? That's being generous.

（ but she is clearly teasing, by her tone. ）

Sure, you can come down whenever you have a free moment. Do you know how to read the location pings? I included one in my post.

[healthkit]

Mmhm.

[ Look, he might appear to be old and out of touch but before it all he'd had a device just like this one. He had a decent job and a house with a mortgage, too.

And then things had gone to shit. 2013 feels like a whole other lifetime ago; and honestly, it was. So does everything that came after. ]

Yeah, I ain't got nothin' better to do, so now's as good a time as any.

[craters]

How about in an hour?

（ poor joel. you've really gone and done it now. ）

[healthkit]

An hour.

[ Okay.

Yeah, he's in for it now. Can't say he didn't see this coming though. Try as he might to keep an arm's length from anyone, he's still got something of a weakness when it comes to helping kids. ]

[craters]

（ excuse you, who are you calling a kid? sir, does she need to crush another rock? ）

Hopefully you like candy!

（ and with that, she disconnects. there are a few other things she needs to see too, first, but once joel arrives she'll make time for him. ）

fin.

[healthkit]

[ You can crush all the rocks you want and be mighty impressive while doing so, but you're still a kid, kid. 😌 ]

Candy —

[ It's uttered under his breath, and into the air, directed at no one in particular but yeah, he'll show up in an hour as he'd said. ]