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[thantagonist]

Attention Fellow People of Etraya,

I am Doctor Daniil Dankovsky, Bachelor of Medicine. As I understand it, few of you have seen a doctor lately. That simply won’t do! Please, don’t wait to get sick to establish care. I am situated in the hospital, ready to take consent forms and make updated medical histories. At least a few of you have unaddressed concerns, I just know it. The average person comes to see the doctor when it’s too late! Though we cannot die here, there is no reason to suffer unduly.

And if you are otherwise healthy, perhaps think of it as helping me out. In the event of an outbreak, it is far more helpful to have complete clinical pictures of the inhabitants. Especially, as I understand it, there are many biological differences in this population.

Please come visit me during my clinic hours, every day from 10am to 6pm.


[What Daniil really wants is to meet more of the unusual inhabitants of Etraya more quickly as well as conduct casual interviews of the sort of people who are slated to save the universe. But he can’t just say that completely outright.]

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[thantagonist]

Sounds good… [He checks the numbers he’s filled in and frees her arm from the cuff as well as his own grip.]

No, not a surgery. Well, none that should be performed on an otherwise functional person. Lobotomies leave much to be desired.

[Daniil opens a cabinet and plucks out a medical journal from a year neither of them have ever seen. Don’t worry about why he has a collection of medical journals stashed here about nightmares and the like.]

There is a medication formulated for blood pressure that just so happens to help with this, too. It shouldn’t be dangerous for you to try, and you can reach out to me anytime.

[letmelive]

[ Claire absently rubs her bicep where the cuff was, encouraging the ache from the constriction to subside. She grimaces at the mention of lobotomies. ]

Yeah I'll pass on the lobotomy, I've seen that movie.

[ She's spoken to people from a variety of different years, and it's obvious this place is decades if not centuries ahead of the Earth Claire knows goes. That there's a medication that could help with nightmares that isn't a sedative... well, it piques her interest. ]

Really, a blood pressure med? It won't knock me out?

[thantagonist]

Was the movie any good? [Sounds like sort of an exciting film. It would have to be about doctors, wouldn’t it?]

[This paper is from over a hundred years in the future from Daniil’s point of view. Almost magic in its precision.]

Oh, it will. You’ll take it at bedtime.

[letmelive]

It was good up until the lobotomy. The guy became a vegetable.

[ It absolutely was not a movie about doctors.

She hesitates at the thought of the medication knocking her out, chewing on the inside of her lip. ]

I don't know in that case. Sleep would be good, but I've taken sleeping pills before, after my parents died. I still had the nightmares but it was like I couldn't get away from them.

[thantagonist]

That is a distinct risk when you jam an ice pick into someone’s brain.

[He regards her with sympathy, as best he can. He can never seem to get every scrap of smugness off his face.]

It’s up to you. You can read the paper if you like, but…

Nightmares are unpleasant, but they won’t kill you. Not until you’re unable to sleep at all, at least. You can come back and change your mind when you’re feeling more desperate. [Not said unkindly, but matter of factly.]

[letmelive]

[ Claire scrunches her lips to the side as she thinks, eyeing the literature before holding out her hand. ]

I'll read it and I'll... try the medication. If it helps I'm probably not the only one around here having nightmares, so maybe it could help more people.

[thantagonist]

That’s likely a fair assessment.

[He hands her his copy, marked up in his handwriting.]

You can keep this, I’ve memorized the pertinent information and taken note of the chemical structure.

[Daniil loves sketching a good chemical compound.]

[He sits on his perch of a chair and folds his hands.] I’m not normally one to make myself so available nor my schedule so known, but I will make an exception for you while you get used to your medication. I tend to stay up and work until two in the morning. If you have any concerns after you go to bed… there is a good chance you can catch me awake.

Please don’t tell anyone this.

[letmelive]

Thanks.

[ She takes the journal, intent on reading it before she takes the medication. She's a college student, she's used to dense reading material. At his offer she smiles a little, tilting her head. ]

Two AM, huh? Maybe you need this stuff too.

[thantagonist]

I prefer to sleep in and enjoy the peace and quiet of night while I have it.

[He gives her an eye crinkling smile. He was still in his 20s, but his lifestyle had certainly aged him.]

So. Bloodwork. You’re not squeamish around needles, are you?

[letmelive]

Okay, I get that. On nights when my roommate had to be up for early class I sometimes would stay up late just to feel like I had the place to myself.

[ Claire isn't exactly an early bird herself, but she's also not quite out of her teens. She smiles in return, though she does grimace immediately at the prospect of bloodwork. ]

I'm... not, but do you think that's necessary?

Wtf I thought this comment posted >:/

[thantagonist]

I do. Especially with where you’ve been. It doesn’t sound especially hygenic, not even accounting for the monsters and mutants.

Do yourself a favor. Catch a pathogen before it starts shutting down your kidneys.

[Its not like this is his preferred work, but not having to fight people to treat them was a sort of nice change of pace.]