:I don't know the term. He does need to be paranoid in general at home and also right before we fell in the river monsters were after us, though:

:...Oh. Uh, the term means, hmm - usually it's something that happens to people who fought in wars or something and are traumatized and jumpy from it? I've had patients with that problem before. And he...seems like that. I, just - I didn't want to be nosy, but if this is a - way he tends to be in general, then I should warn the other nurses. I have to go home at some point: 

She lets out her breath in a gusty sigh. :Although, honestly, at this point I'd kind of rather sleep on the floor of the break room, I have to be back at 6:45 am tomorrow and I do NOT feel like biking back up the hill at midnight: 

If Amshalan were here Belrun could ask her to give Marian a ride. :It's likely to happen if he's confused or scared, especially if I'm not there, especially especially if I'm upset. It won't happen while he knows what's going on and what's going on isn't that he's being attacked:

Nod. :...How's he doing? On the knowing what's going on front, I mean. I don't want to bother him if he's getting some rest, but if you were talking to him before...: 

:He understood last time I talked to him. And he can speak out loud now, which should help him with not using his energy reserves on talking. But if I were far away and he were hazy - I think he thought I was in trouble -:

:Oh. I guess that makes sense, if he woke up without you there, and you were probably stressed. Sorry: Marian rubs her eyes. :I wish we had twenty of you! We could use so much magic healing, just in general, but obviously I can't ask you to leave him just yet... I think it's pretty normal at this stage for him to be waking up disoriented like that, even if he's pretty easy to re-orient if you're there: 

Sigh. :I'm just SO glad you got here before he started waking up more. I cannot at all imagine dealing with this without you: 

:I wish we had some of you at home, you seem to have almost totally orthogonal strengths and weaknesses. Maybe when he's better he can re-engineer whatever got us here and we can pop back and forth, do healer-exchange programs and stuff, it'll be fun: Yawn. :Can I get something else to eat, I need to keep putting food in me if I'm going to be propping up myself and him and incidental third party emergencies:

:...Oh wow. I - hadn't even gotten as far as thinking about how you might not be able to get home! I'm sorry - I really hope you can: She bobs her head. :I'll go pick up some more food for you. Cafeteria's open until eight so I'd better run. Should I just get a whole lot, so you can keep snacking until morning?: 

:That would be really good, thank you:

Marian is back ten minutes later with a borrowed cafeteria tray HEAPED with food. There's another personal pizza, and a burger, and a potato salad, and chocolate cookies, and a fruit cup, and a yogurt parfait, and a chocolate milk – she just sort of grabbed one of everything that was left in the almost-closed cafeteria.

She has more coffee and a granola bar for herself. Coffee at 8 pm is perhaps a dubious idea, but. 

Leareth stirs at the sound of her footsteps. His throat is so scratchy right now; he has to swallow and clear it twice before attempting to speak makes any noise. "I am very thirsty," he tells Belrun. 

:Marian, he's thirsty, is it safe for him to drink?:

:Hmm. He might have trouble swallowing properly, after having the breathing tube? But I guess you'd be able to tell if he was aspirating. I think, start off giving him ice chips one at a time, and if that goes fine he can have liquids to drink in an hour: 

She should technically ask Dr Millinger about this, but Dr Millinger is currently in the OR with their new admission, some poor woman who tried to singlehandedly stop a gang of hooligans holding up a corner liquor store - and succeeded, somehow - but collected a handgun bullet to her neck and a few more to her shoulder in the process. Why is Reno LIKE THIS??? 

:Ice chips, huh: She tells Leareth he might have trouble swallowing but they have ice he can try.

Letting bits of ice melt in his mouth is AMAAAAAAZING and Leareth sucks on them with a blissful smile. 

- swallowing anything more substantial than his own saliva is, in fact, weirdly hard to figure out? He coughs a bit the first time he tries, and is ordered by Marian to Take A Break For Five Minutes, but manages to figure it out after that. 

Marian wanders around the unit paying back all the help she's gotten today with Leareth by helping other nurses, and then flips her coma patient onto his other side, and then parks herself near Belrun to chart. 

:Wanna hear a ridiculous story?: she says after a minute. Normally she would probably think a little bit about the confidentiality issues here, but she's been at the hospital for coming on fourteen hours and her impulse control is...low. 

:...sure, why not:

:Okay, so the new admit over in the other room - she's this lady, we think from out of town, it sounds like she was walking through downtown and saw some guys robbing a store? And thought the best response to this was to walk in and fight them or something? It's - not clear exactly what happened, the clerk was hiding under his desk, but she must've terrified the fuck out of the robbers - the cops got there and arrested them, I guess, but then hauled them off to the ED too, and now three of them are under psych observation because they're refusing to talk or move. Anyway, she got shot. Which I feel like shouldn't be a surprise if you decide to personally fight armed robbers! She'll be fine though, hopefully: 

:Refusing to talk or move? Three people are doing this? Is that a normal thing here?:

:- I mean, there are mental illnesses that cause that? I've...never heard of three people suddenly having it all at once like that, but - well, Reno is batshit, one of the patients here got shot in a fight with his tattoo artist: 

:There... is magic that causes that, though I don't know why another person would have been caught in the same thing that moved us:

:Whoa! Can you do that sort of magic? I guess I get why you wouldn't want to do it on Leareth to make him calm down...: 

:All I have is Fetching, Healing, and Mindspeech. Uh, what's the person who got shot look like?:

:Uh, black, tall - dyed her hair white for some reason, which is actually a really cool look but must've taken some doing - come to think of it Krystal did say she was dressed weird too...: 

:Nayoki: Belrun tries.