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Leareth is a terrible ICU patient. Does this thread need to exist: no! but who can stop me
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There is in fact a findable Nayoki! She's further away than the extent of the hallway, but not much further. She's not really answering though, and unlike Leareth when Belrun arrived, she's still shielded normally. 

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:Okay, yeah, that's someone I know, but she's not answering me and I'm worried about leaving Leareth. You are not going to be able to fix what she did, she'll have to do it. Can you move her to this hall so I can work on her and make really sure she'll be able to do that without getting too far from him?:

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:Huh! Right, she's probably still in PACU - I should, uh, maybe go over there and warn someone she's magic too...: 

The ceiling makes a weird staticky beep again and then there's an unnaturally-amplified voice saying something. 

:- Oh FUCK are you FUCKING KIDDING ME: Marian swears several times out loud for good measure. :I hate today so much!: 

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:Now what?:

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:Code blue AGAIN - sorry, patient in cardiac arrest - not here, but we usually send help and I don't know who has the pager, Alice did this morning but she can't leave her patient and Ben's really new -: 

"Ben!" she calls out anyway. "Can you go?" 

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He sticks his head out behind the curtain of Leg Lifts Lady's room and shows her gloved hands smeared with...something brown. "Uh I'm a little occupied." 

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:For fuck's sake: Marian drags a hand over her face. "I'm going, I'm going!"

:It's not Nayoki, different unit - Belrun don't worry about this one, stay put with him–:

She runs. 

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Well then, Belrun will hang out here and work on Leareth and work through her food stash.

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Two minutes later, Marian abandons the room containing a perfectly fine and healthy patient. Today is not the day when she's in the mood for false alarms, although it's arguably better than a real alarm, they only have one free bed left and none of the nurses on duty really have slack - probably she'd've had to give Ben her coma guy and taken the new admit and then be split across two pods which is terrible... 

Well, at least it's right next to the PACU, she can detour in to warn Dr Millinger. 

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Dr Millinger, when she finds him, is busy berating a confused resident. "Where did my patient go?" 

     "I don't know! I was just in the bathroom for a minute..." 

"How the hell could my patient have disappeared while you were in the bathroom for one minute???" 

     "Ummm maybe it was five minutes...upset stomach..." 

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Marian grits her teeth. She hates interrupting people, especially tired cranky surgeons. "Dr Millinger? Uh, is it the new admit who's disappeared?" 

And when he nods: "Sorry I have to go right now–" 

She sprints back to the ICU and arrives out of breath. :Belrun we have a different problem than I thought: 

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:What is the problem?:

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:Nobody's dying which is good, but, uh, your friend is missing? Somehow snuck out of the PACU? I think she must've somehow made the false alarm happen although I have no idea how: 

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:...I don't know off the top of my head how she'd do that either, though probably there's some way especially if a person triggers the alarm and she could fuck with their head. I guess she's conscious now though, I'll try to Mindspeak her again:

:Nayoki!:

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:I am a little busy! I need to steal some clothes so that I blend in here. Are you in danger right now?: 

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:No, but you're making a lot of fuss in the hospital you just escaped from and also I hear you've been shot! Where do you think you're even going?:

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:To come get you! I will be fine. Is Leareth with you, is he all right - I was having difficulty Mindspeaking him -: 

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:He's in a hospital bed being cared for by me and these nice locals and he's kind of out of it because he was badly hurt. He's not exactly okay but you do not need to make a scene:

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:They do not seem very nice to me! They kept sticking me with sharp things!: 

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:They don't have magic and the sharp things are how they get drugs into you:

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:I did not want drugs! Also they cut holes in me! ....I mean, I did already have holes in me, but surely they did not need to be made into bigger holes!: Nayoki sounds incredibly offended. :Though at least they sewed them up after: 

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:I don't know what that's about but I'm actually pretty sure there will be a reasonable explanation if we ask! Would you like me to ask the nearest Healer why they might have done that? Also please don't wander off and die, you set-commanded some people and I certainly can't fix them:

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:...Are you sure? That the people here are trustworthy and will not keep us captive?: 

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:I like the ones I have talked to but I suppose I can double-check about that, it hasn't come up since I don't want to leave Leareth and he's not really in a condition to be moved:

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:All right. I was not going to wander off, I want to find you and Leareth and I suppose if you feel you are safe here then we can stay here. ...To be clear the people I set-commanded deserved it, they were threatening a perfectly innocent old man with weapons to make him give them all his money: 

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