The rose I sickened with a scarlet fever [Open]

[youwonscience]

WHO: Cosima and ?
WHAT: A catchall open post for phases two and three of the flu modplot
WHEN: Wintermarch 25 to Guardian 6ish
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: Discussion of blood in a medical context in Anders' thread; otherwise general "affected by blood plague" heads-up unless otherwise noted.

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[provenforce]

Rey makes it to Cosima's workspace after resting in the Infirmary for the better part of a day. She's not really recovering from her blood loss, but she's restless despite it, feeling the need to do something. She isn't much help in the infirmary, so she decides Cosima is her best bet of finding something to do to help. At this point she'd probably help design and assemble a steam-powered MRI if it would help them figure out what's making all the Rifters so sick.

She arrives at Cosima's door still wrapped in the blanket Anders gave her, with Padawan solidly pressed to her side, the mabari barely leaving her since the illness took it's turn.

"You haven't found anything new, have you?"

[youwonscience]

Cosima's been in and out of the infirmary. Rationally, she knows it's probably better to stay there, but...

...well, she supposes no one can react totally rationally to the prospect of their own imminent death. And the infirmary doesn't have a puppy to cuddle.

"Hey," she says, looking up when Rey arrives. She'd been looking over notes, yet again. "A little, but nothing applicable yet. I heard I've got you to thank for the blood sample, though."

[provenforce]

Rey smiles faintly, leaning against the doorframe and holding up her left arm which no longer bears the wound thanks to Anders's healing.

"Probably not my finest moment, but I needed to do something, and I know when a machine is broken, you look under the cover." Once she'd gotten the thought of blue blood in her head, after Solas had made his post, she couldn't get it out again. She'd been determined to do something useful, to the point of personal injury. It doesn't strike her as odd that she did it, but it probably should.

[youwonscience]

"I appreciate the metaphor, even if I'm not a mechanic. I've looked at my own blood before, though where I'm from and probably where you're from there are less messy ways of getting a sample." She tilts her head. "You want to come in for a minute? I'm mainly just keeping myself busy, I wouldn't mind some company."

[provenforce]

"Sure. I was hoping you might need something built, but I'll settle for being company." Rey is used to being alone, but she doesn't particularly enjoy it. Laying on a cot in the Infirmary, even when people were bustling around, had felt very lonely.

She moves into the room, Padawan moving with her like a crutch, dropping down into the first chair she sees.

"I didn't realize needles were such a luxury until coming to this place. I suppose it makes sense, given the primitive way they manipulate metal."

[youwonscience]

"Oh man, tell me about it. Like, I was expecting to miss information technology and rapid messaging, but at this point I'd settle for a box of latex gloves and a few ballpoint pens." Cosima sits back in her chair a little. "It's funny, there's stuff they can do with magic that's incredible, but then there are things I take totally for granted that I end up having to explain."

[provenforce]

"I lived rougher than those on Core planets, but even I had comforts I didn't realize could just... not exist in certain places," Rey replies, smiling a little as she settles her hand on Padawan's head.

"Private showers, for example. We had stalls lined up for sonics in the Niima outpost, but... they were private. It's so strange that here it's just accepted that groups of people bathe together."