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* Claire has been drifting in and out of sleep in her hospital bed, after Tia left them all to it. During one of her awake periods, she contemplates calling the Enforcer to bug her, and ask if she's contacted Desdemona yet. Then she falls asleep again for a few hours, and when she wakes back up she thinks about the same question, before her sluggish mind realizes she'd already thought of that.
<Ikiryo> It also helps that a familar doctor is sitting in a chair next to her bed.
<Claire> "Oh, hey, Doc's here," she notes, letting her head rest back on its pillow. Then she jerks it upright again, grinning. "Doc!"
<Ikiryo> She laughs musically, leaning over to give Claire a hug.
* Claire gives her the biggest one-armed hug she can muster. "Oh, it's good to see you again."
<Ikiryo> "I came as quickly as I could, when I got the message. Had to cut across a few areas I'm not allowed in TSAB space...but that's what the stealth systems of my husband's ship is for~"
<Claire> She giggles as she rests back on the bed. "Did he come with you, or did you end up leaving him high and dry with, like, Altea's dad or something"
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<Ikiryo> "He has important diplomatic missions to make...and I have the excuse of being eccentric and charmingly attractive if I get caught doing so, he's only the latter~"
<Claire> "True. How are those going? After the sneak attack and stuff, I mean."
<Ikiryo> "Officially...not fantastically. Too many unknown forces for the TSAB to be happy with it...but my husband says boots on the ground, so to speak, are happy and are getting along great."
<Claire> "Yeah..." She tilts her head back and sighs, staring at the ceiling to the room. "The higher-ups are all chewing bulkheads while the people actually meeting each other are erasing the lines between 'em."
<Ikiryo> "Athena's getting pretty ticked off about it. I think she's about ready to invade Mid just to shut up the people telling her that this was an unsanctioned operation and she needs to make recompence for those dreadnaughts that were sent to help."
* Claire sucks on her teeth for a second. "The brass are afraid, I think. Admiral Hesteven was bad enough...but then how many more were involved with Caladfwlch's dealings, or agitating for the war that Section 31 wanted? I don't know...I hope Tia and Ivory can nail a few of 'em to a wall."
<Ikiryo> She nods. "Don't tell Athena I said this...but she's pretty easy to manipulate quickly. She's one person and it's a lot easier to convince one person than a heap of them."
<Claire> "Heh. The upside to being auto...auta...basically queen, eh?"
<Ikiryo> "Don't call her that or she might get snippy~"
<Ikiryo> "It's Archon~"
<Claire> "Yeah, you know what I meant though. Benefit of being the only one in charge, isntead of ruling by committee."
<Ikiryo> She nods. "Though it does mean that any biases of hers have less to stop them too. Two sides the coin."
<Claire> "Yeah, fair nuff." She sighs loudly. "These painkillers make it hard to think straight sometimes. Better mush-headed and numb, though."
<Ikiryo> She leans in to kiss Claire on the forehead. "Don't worry, we'll get you off them soon."
<Claire> She gives a little smile. "Thanks, Doc. You're the best. Doctors wouldn't tell me yet how bad things are, but it's gotta be pretty bad if they couldn't just slap a big cast around the whole thing, stick some pins in, whatever. Even Pana's nanomachines just made it hurt less for the time."
<Ikiryo> "Oh, it's right fucked." She nods.
* Claire barks a laugh, but there's an obvious current of worry and nervousness under it. "No mincing words, huh?" She stares at the tube around the limb in question for a second. "Is it gonna have to go? I'm kinda attached to it."
<Claire> "At the shoulder."
<Claire> "Get it?"
<Ikiryo> "Hmm...not for certain. Pana likely couldn't do anything purely timewise...but it's a lot of damage and even I can't work miracles. A year...or two...and we can likely get some mobility back in it. Most likely..." She frowns.
<Claire> "Hey, as long as I can still hold a staff, and unison with Tis, right?"
<Ikiryo> "...maybe." She frowns a bit more.
<Claire> "...It won't work?" Suddenly misty eyes blink more quickly. "But...I don't want to not be in the field..."
<Ikiryo> "It will most likely work." She shakes her head. "When you Unison with Tisiphone, you have the same body...and going by previous encounters, some of the effects that happen to that body stay in her form after you de-unison."
<Claire> "Huh, rig--wait. Is her arm all messed up too?!"
<Ikiryo> "To a less serious degree." She nods.
<Ikiryo> "My concern is what will happen if you Unison with her, when your starting state is heavily damaged."
<Claire> "Where is she at? Oh, Saint-King what kind of a friend am I, I didn't even think about that, where are they hiding her?" On the verge of panic, she tries to push herself up from the bed.
<Ikiryo> "She's done in engineering, she's fine and if you move from that bed I will get the off-button hypospray and knock you right the hell out."
* Claire pauses, mollified after hearing about her friend being already fixed, and slowly settles back into her bed. "...Sorry, Doc," she says meekly.
<Ikiryo> "Good. You are very hurt and I'm not fucking letting it get worse."
<Claire> "Yes ma'am."
<Ikiryo> "Now, let's try something productive. Yes, unisoning with Tisiphone is likely harmful to her. Being mechanical, we can repair her after each unison...but it's also not going to be pleasent for her."
<Claire> She nods gently. "So...even if this does get healed up, and some movement back after PT...she'd still be in bad shape."
<Ikiryo> "It will be a long time and a lot of rehabilitation before I'd call it fully healed up." She nods.
<Claire> She bites her lip, the thought of spending years with a lamed limb clearly not appealing. Dreams of joining the Enforcers wither in her mind.
<Ikiryo> "There are a few other options, however. I did say I'm not a miracle worker...but only because I'm too good at what I do for anyone to mistake it for mere divine intervention~"
<Claire> That forces a giggle out of her. "Never let it be said that you aren't a paragon of humility, Doc."
<Ikiryo> "Oh, I could stop trying to be humble if you'd like~"
<Claire> "Nono, please, carry on. You already know I bask in your awesomeness anyway."
<Ikiryo> "Most people do~" She smiles brilliantly. "Anyway, my proposed solutions...and I have a few...are such. Step one: We cut your arm off. Step Two: We get a new arm and stick it on."
<Claire> Even suspecting that that was coming at some gut level, Claire pauses now that it's laid out in plain words. It's a bit of a daunting prospect. "...Like a new person-one? Would that work? What if it's, like, too long or too short?"
<Ikiryo> "Well, I was thinking we had a few options there. I could grow a new Claire Arm."
<Claire> "...That sounds so weird...even though I know what you mean."
<Ikiryo> "It would take a while to grow but it would be as good as new and you'd never know the difference."
<Claire> "And in the meantime, still this or just no arm," she nods. "And your other thoughts?"
<Ikiryo> "I make you a really cool synthetic arm. Have you looked much at Panakeia's systems?"
<Claire> "Not really, that's kind of...invasive, isn't it? Plus she's really private and *still* doesn't like being here very much, so..."
<Ikiryo> "And here was I expecting you to try and get a good look at most of the other girls here." She smirks.
<Claire> "Doc!" She blushes fiercely. "I'm not *that* bad! I only fantasize about Alexa. And Eppy. And Delta and Ainlinn and Miss Athena."
<Claire> "...Oops."
<Ikiryo> She just grins widely.
* Claire pulls the covers over her head.
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<Ikiryo> "Nothing I didn't know~" She sing-songs.
<Claire> "...Who spilled? Only a couple people knew...was it Nike?"
<Ikiryo> "No comment~" She grins. "Anyway...Panakeia's body is a high grade synthetic that mostly emulates the functions of flesh and blood without actually being living."
<Claire> "Yeah, I've seen her get hurt." She lowers the covers. "Um, but if it's her whole body...would it be okay to attach only part of that to a regular body?"
<Ikiryo> "Of course, I'm a genius. It's also designed to be, despite appearances, rather close in function to human. A lot of the reason with her design for synthetic over organic was for dealing with potential plague situations...and it looks stylish."
<Claire> "True, she is really pretty."
<Ikiryo> "Of course she is. I mean, I could have made her skin look a bit closer to human but the slightly off texture and the lines along her body. It just adds style." She smiles widely.
<Claire> "Is that why you left the purple lines on Tazzari?"
<Ikiryo> "Of course, she's so much cuter like that~"
<Claire> "She is, yeah. Her girlfriends are lucky~"
<Ikiryo> "Not entirely sure why Panakeia seems to have issues but...anyway, I could make you an arm like that. Synthetic but not just mechanical, so it would be a lot easier to get used to and maintain."
<Claire> She nods a little. "And that would be a lot sooner than vat-growing a new me-arm?"
<Ikiryo> "Oh yes. I could have that done in a couple of days, less if I just stole Panakeias arm while she sleeps." She nods.
* Claire bites the sheet to stop giggles from coming out. "No, don't do that to her!"
<Ikiryo> "Fiiine~"
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<Claire> "Um...any other options? You wouldn't have to do anything fancy with a new arm, I mean, let's face it, nobody would notice it anyway."
<Ikiryo> "Wouldn't have to do anything..." She looks almost offended at that.
<Claire> "Oh no I mean you could if you wanted to!" She waves her good hand in a pacifying gesture. "But you yourself said before that my, um, girls get all the attention..."
<Ikiryo> "Is that a problem?"
<Claire> "No! I just don't want your work to go to waste..."
<Ikiryo> "Nonsense, I don't anything that does to waste~"
<Ikiryo> *does go to waste
<Claire> "Okay then."
<Ikiryo> "So, which of the three options sounds good to you?"
<Claire> She licks her lips, clearly thinking, though from her expression her decision is already made. "...I don't want to be away any longer than I have to be, and I doubly don't want to hurt Tis, so...the last one."
<Ikiryo> "Oh goody~" She looks very pleased with that.
<Claire> "...I know you've said before that Eris was unique because most people couldn't accept that process. Will I have troubles like that?"
<Ikiryo> "Oh, this is basic stuff." She shakes her head. "Not like Eris. Eris is about as heavily augmented as the Myrmidons are...I don't think you'd handle most of your nerve endings being replaced like she can, for example."
<Claire> "Oh. Wow." She blinks. "Uh, no, I didn't think it was *that* extensive."
<Ikiryo> "The more invasive it is, the greater the chance of rejection...this is easy." She grins.
<Claire> "Okay. I trust you, Doc."
<Ikiryo> She leans in, giving Claire a hug. "You'll be fine."