OPEN

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WHO: Sora and OPEN
WHERE: Knock Out's Clinic
WHEN: 17th-whenever someone brings him the opposing energon color
WHAT: Sora's sick and pretty much needs company
WARNINGS: Sora deserves his own warning, just saying

[ once more Sora finds himself in that clinic. maybe the door isn't locked, but he's more or less trapped all the same. this time, though? he doesn't really feel like leaving. he's not the type that easily gets sick - seriously, the kid travels to a bunch of different worlds and maintains his health. but this time? it's really knocked him off of his feet.

visitors are allowed, since Sora doesn't feel up to leaving and visiting his friends. he tries to smile and laugh like usual, but it's obvious he gets tired easily and zones out - kind of like a head cold. so more often than not, he can be found, curled up on one of those human sized beds.

careful. sick kid is clingy. ]

Comments

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Hmm?

[ he probably just looks worse than he feels at the moment, sitting up a little straighter. ]

Me? Yeah. Just sick is all.

[ punctuated by a sneeze of all things. ]

[0perator]

Is oozing like that normal?

[Have a tissue, Sora. Alia may or may not have lunged for it.]

[heartdive]

[ don't worry Alia. you won't get sick from this. he'll just take the tissue and blow his nose. ]

When you're sick? Kinda.

[ sniff sniff. ]

[0perator]

[Oozing, Sora. Oozing. Tell her that's not gross.]

Man. That sucks. Need anything to rehydrate or something?

[heartdive]

[ IT'S JUST SNOT, GEEZ. ]

Yeah... I never get sick...

[ it's why he's so miserable... and sinking back into his pillows. ]

Water's good.

[ feels bad, though. people have to fetch him things because walking is too much of a chore. ]

[0perator]

[ewwwwwwwwww]

First time for everything, I guess.

[Water's easy enough to fetch, and given the amount of oozing going on, Alia opts for one of the larger containers for it. Takes some digging, but who knows how much oozing is in Sora's future?]

So any aches and pains or anything?

[Rather not end up getting sick because of mysterious illness round two, after all.]

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It's gross...

[ he groans, pouting at the thought. kinda half misses his mom at this point too, sorry. kids and their parents when sick, you know? but at least he can drink water pretty well right? ]

No.

[ shakes his head then thinks better of it. it is hard for him to think and talk. just be patient. ]

Sneezing. Coughing. Fever...

[0perator]

Hmm... well then, it's probably not that flu that was going around. Small favors.

[Hey, maybe Sora will mend up quicker than the people with the flu, too?]

[heartdive]

S'what Knock Out said... He doesn't know what's up.

[ that's why he's stuck here. yay /o/

not that he wants to go anywhere. ]

[0perator]

It is kinda weird. Without a full biosphere, you'd think viruses and stuff wouldn't do to well here. Not enough hosts.

[heartdive]

Bio whatta?

[ so lost. what are those words. ]

[0perator]

Biosphere.. the collection of all the life on the planet, like the atmosphere is all the air.

[Sora it's a good thing you are so like Axl because at least Alia is used to explaining science for people with very short attention spans.]

[heartdive]

I thought germs and stuff could live anywhere...

[ speaking of germs... reaching for a tissue. 8V ]

[0perator]

Nah. They're living things too. They need certain light and temperatures and food and so on.

[heartdive]

...But there's still a lot of that here.

[0perator]

Not as much as on Earth, though. Even an Earth that's messed up generally has a pretty complete micro-organism ecology because that's just how the little boogers are. Here... well, especially anything evolved to go after humans would have some problems because the population's just not dense enough. Normally.

[heartdive]

[ explaining this to a feverish kid like Sora probably isn't the best of ideas...

his eyes are just kind of glazing over. ]

[0perator]

[Sleep is good for sick people anyway.. and this isn't the first time. Or likely the last.]

I can keep going.

[heartdive]

Uh... Pass?

I really don't understand all of that anyway.

[0perator]

You look like you should sleep. Need anything else?

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All I've been doing is sleeping...

[ and sneezing. and maybe falling when trying to get up off of the bed. ]

[0perator]

Sleeping is how your body self-repairs. Sleeping a lot when you're not at your best just means you'll heal up faster. Didn't anyone tell you that?