"It can be one person a bunch of times but otherwise nothing else to build up a lot of backlash."

"What is he going to do if he thinks it's his fault?"

"I don't know - might try to get away from her if he thinks he's making her worse. Could be helpful to have someone from his support team on hand to tell him to not do anything, he's good at deferring to them."

"All right, you get ahold of them, then. They can double as people for him to haul around, if he interrupts a nurse when they're with another patient that could kill somebody."

"Okay. Also I am going to have trouble with talking without vomiting in a few hours if I don't get my finger reattached at all - tape should work. Or more guiding than I'm getting right now. Or I can vomit somewhere useful."

"Venture, there is no useful place for vomit, she cannot possibly handle an infection right now and the acid wouldn't do her any favors either. If you need a bandage for your finger we have tape." Somebody runs off to fetch tape. "Do you need anything else? Turnaround, do you?"

Lucien can slightly shake his head without dislodging his mouth from Lorica's.

"I'm good."

Over the next few minutes more tubes get attached to Lorica to compensate for all the failures of her various organs.

Lucien tries to figure out how to position his mouth and lips so this doesn't strain any muscles that aren't used to kissing someone for more than a minute or two. 

Active kissing is really impossible for this length of time and the passive state they wind up in is only marginally less gross than spitting into someone's mouth but she's in too much pain to care.

The hospital is not really set up for an endless parade of Lucien's support people fading in and getting fresh tags and running away to be pulled in again. They wind up moving Lorica to another room to accommodate it slightly less awfully, near the fire stairs, even though moving her and all her machines is a huge production. They find her donated blood, eventually, and put it back inside her body where it can be vanishingly unlikely to introduce any new pathogens or antigens that she might react badly to. There's a marathon of symptom management - some of the pain is probably just direct backlash but some of it might be downstream of other problems that are themselves direct backlash, but the when they get her to swallow ibuprofen she vomits blood - some of it's probably Lucien's, and Lia has to clarify that before they panic too much - and acetaminophen affects her liver biomarkers really badly, and they don't dare try anything stronger. The dialysis machine helps at the cost of making her sob with fatigue she feels too wretched to sleep off. None of these people are getting any sleep.

When she starts to improve beyond what they've been able to do with technology and partners, they start detaching her from things, one at a time. And people, one at a time. Lucien can go see the emergency dentist if he doesn't want to go directly home and sleep.

Emergency dentist first, then sleep.

"Are you sure honey?"

"I... Need teeth?"

"Yes you do still have most of those and another day isn't going to ruin them."

"I." Lucien blinks for a second or two. 

"Okay sleep first if you say so. But I shouldn't drive?"

As it turns out Lucien's parents brought a car and can drive him home.

Lorica passes out once her backlash is no longer trying to pull itself up against the guiding. Before it's even very much better, the tiredness, which is very real and independent of the backlash, overwhelms all the magical problems.

The medics keep detaching her from things. They send Lia away.

She is going to sleep for twelve hours.

Lia has been staying still for way way too long and she feels terrible and just... needs to be helpful to someone.

She finds the nearest dungeon that's comfortably within her capabilities and rescues captives till there isn't anyone left and then hunts down the core. Only after making sure everything is wrapped up there does she return to Lucien's place and collapse into bed with him. 

Twelve hours later Lorica awakens. There's a fresh hospital gown for her to change into. There's what the hospital is for some reason legally allowed to call "scrambled eggs" and "toast".

There is not any paper. She was admitted without her clothes and without her phone on her and does the hospital have a way to contact Lucien?

Lucien's dad has in fact been in the waiting room for the past couple of hours.

Oh, well, that'll also do, though it's pretty weird of him to be doing that. Can he go get her phone and a change of clothes out of her house so she can go home?

Lucien took her phone while she was awakening and so Arthur has that as well as the clothes Lia picked up from Lorica's place when it seemed like she was going to spend the week at Lucien's. Arthur can also provide a ride - Lucien wanted to come pick her up and make sure she got home safely but was not exactly in a state to do that.

"I can just take an Uber."

"Sure, if you'd rather - though it really wouldn't be any trouble." Here's her phone, clothes, and house key.