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And then -

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She gasps. Hurt...

She groans, weakly.

…Huh. Lucy knows that noise. It’s a pain noise. And she isn’t making it.

Which means that someone else is. And from pretty up close. Why would someone else be in her bed?

As she puzzles through this question, she contemplates the past several hours—wait, she was in class. And completely blew off the course material. Why would she do that?

“Hello?”

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Cara tries to say something and discovers that her mouth is mysteriously very dry, and so the sound doesn't really come out properly at all! That's... bad...

She whimpers.

Well that’s not good. After some thought, she can identify the person as the Warm Thing that feels really good to hug—

Wait. Hang on. Snuggling doesn’t normally feel this good. And her brain is not working correctly.

Um.

Okay the first thing she’s going to do is make the person who is in pain drink some water and take a painkiller. She doesn’t have water immediately at hand so in order to do this she grabs a glass and the pill bottle and drags the other person out of her room and into the bathroom.

(If they pass any other people in the hallway, while Lucy is pantsless, none of them identify themselves by expressing pain.)

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Moving: it's now surprisingly difficult! She does her best, leaning on Lucy for support.

Well Lucy is going to make this work.

Okay. Bathroom. Fill the glass of water. Now…hm.

She’s going to experiment with pushing the pain pill into various bits of the person’s surface until one of them turns out to be the mouth. If the person isn’t right side up this is going to get Not Excellent fast.

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Lucy... wants to feed her this pill, apparently. She opens her mouth obediently.

Ah! That’s the mouth, probably! She stops trying to jam the pill up Cara’s nose, inserts the pill, and then starts slowly tipping water into the probably-mouth-hole.

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She manages to get pill and water into her mouth and swallow! Her throat is so parched that she starts coughing, the cup of water spilling onto her shirt.

Lucy patiently refills it and puts more water in the person.

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With practice, Cara gets better at being watered! (She still spills some, but less this time.)

Eventually Lucy decides that probably enough water has gone in the person and drinks a glass of water herself.

”Hello?” she tries again.

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Oh! Watering time is over.

"H-hi", she manages weakly.

What’s the most important question…

“Are you still in pain.”

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Is sh-

she winces. "Yes."

“Where does it hurt.”

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Oh no, a hard question. she tries to pay attention to sensations.

after a long pause, she says:

"My head hurts the most. My stomach hurts some. My back and neck and arms are sore. And - something - feels wrong, but it's not... pain."

“Okay. I gave you a headache pill; you can’t have another of those for a while but when we get back to my room you can have a pill for muscle pain. I think I remember something about lime and coconut for stomach pain but I don’t know where to find those. Is it harder than usual to think.”

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"...I don't know. The headache makes it harder?"

she pauses, thinking.

"...it is harder to notice... things I'm feeling..."

Good enough. She texts Traceless about the situation, then refills the water glass and herds the person, who she’s now pretty sure she recognizes as the TA from the class she ignored, back to her room.

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Cara continues to be very herdable! (She stumbles, once or twice, but catches herself on the wall)