rewritethis: (to the future)
Edward Elric ([personal profile] rewritethis) wrote in [community profile] witchesreign2013-07-03 03:43 pm

13. [Action] (backdated to a day or two after the battle, while checkups are happening)

[Somehow, Ed's footsteps lead him right back to the infirmary.

They'd run tests on him as well once everyone came back, but nothing that kept him for long. As far as most anyone else is concerned, and certainly as far as Ed was willing to admit, he could have been stabbed on the battlefield before anything weird(er than a freaking Lunar Cry) happened; junctioning and Cure spells can work wonders sometimes, and there's no trace of any lasting injury. From what he's heard and what he saw in there, he was lucky. It figures, doesn't it? The only good luck he ever gets is the kind he'd rather have done without.

It's interesting to listen to the ways other people are talking about it, in itself. "Spirit worlds", huh? If Ed's honest, he isn't even sure they're wrong.

He shouldn't hang around here, he tells himself as he meanders past the beds. Even ignoring the fact that he's nothing remotely close to a doctor and would arguably be more use keeping out of the way instead of bugging people for errands to run... it's a more welcome sight than a mass grave, almost anything is, but he can't shake the feeling that he doesn't have the right.

There's nowhere else he can think of to go, though. And it is an overwhelming relief to run into anyone he knows, bedridden or otherwise - hell, even people he's only ever seen from a distance, if he recognises their face.]


Hey. [His smile is too tired to be hiding any kind of guile, although that might be uncharacteristic enough to be uncanny all on its own.] Everything okay here?
elementofloyalty: (playful and smug)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2013-07-03 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Another pony?

[She's clearly teasing him. She's happy to see him looking a little happier at least.]
elementofloyalty: (QED so there)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2013-07-04 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm totally fine! This all is just dumb. [She gestures to the leads stuck to her... where, embarrassingly, they had to shave small patches of her fur to attack them.]

So what'd you find?
elementofloyalty: (a little sad and serious)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2013-07-05 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, stay and talk with me for a bit! I'm going crazy here. The last time I got stuck in a hospital for this long I learned to love reading, I'm afraid of what I'm gonna end up doing for entertainment this time. I'll end up playing Go or something.

[She shudders in open disgust and fear.]

It's cool you found the brush, though!
elementofloyalty: (talking up)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2013-07-06 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a board game. That can take hours. Enough said.

[She waves a hoof and then barrels right into a question that is a lot more awkward than she makes it sound.]

So how'd you get so hurt when I found you anyway?
elementofloyalty: (flat what)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2013-07-06 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Really. You didn't notice a hole clean through you that pretty much dropped you to a pile?

[Skeptical pony is skeptical, Ed. Because she kinda has a theory about that injury.]
elementofloyalty: (side-eyeing that)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2013-07-06 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Just wondering if you had it before that whole weird thing happened, or after. Seems like the kinda thing that might have happened when everypony changed.

[Obviously, she just is mad he's not stuck in the infirmary too... right?]
elementofloyalty: (a little sad and serious)

[personal profile] elementofloyalty 2013-07-06 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's pretty convinced now that her suspicions are correct, so she nods quietly.]

When I get out of here... you and I are gonna have a long talk, okay?