The only thing worse than nothing to do

[shelkethetransparent]

Date & Time: Sunday evening
Location: Initiative Infirmary
Characters: Shelke and Ashraf
Summary: Shelke has been a somewhat poorly-behaved patient and the doctors have sent a magic healer to fix her and get her out of their hair.
Warnings: Some mention of injury, probably nothing else.

Shelke didn't function very well with nothing to do. Even in Deepground she was never idle. She was terrible at being idle. So with her injuries from the war, bandages around her side and covering half her face, she'd been told to stay in bed and try to sleep.

And for a day or so she had managed it, but as the pain became more of a constant ache and she adjusted to it (Shelke honestly believed she could adjust to anything) she found it harder and harder to simply remain in bed waiting to 'get better.'

For any other patient this would have been a problem, but with Shelke and her helpful ability to turn invisible, she had started doing just that, and going for walks around the infirmary, popping up rather randomly to watch what doctors and patients were doing. She wasn't foolish enough to leave the building, of course, she knew how injured she really was, but exploring could hardly be a big deal.

So every hour or two some nurse or doctor was shooing her back into her own bed, and after what probably felt like the umpteenth time doing it, they'd given Ashraf a quick knock to come and fix her up and get her out of their hair.

Comments

[highhealplz]

[ He should have been here sooner. He should have helped everyone by now that had been hurt on the mission — in the war — and he's a little ashamed that he's still getting around to people. And so as soon as Ashraf gets the notice that there's a Transport patient causing a nuisance at the Initiative Infirmary, he swallows some annoyance that it had taken the Initiative so long to contact a magical healer, and hurries out.

He's slipping into the room assigned to Shelke not fifteen minutes later — and shows no recognition to see the girl he'd talked to on the network before. ]

Hi. [ He offers a warm smile, still at the door. ] I hear you've been giving people headaches.