Nothing weird; her heart rate and blood pressure were on the low side last night and they're up a bit, into the solidly normal range, now.

Well. Her day could be going a lot worse. Over in the other pods, people keep trying to die; all she has to deal with is weird horror-movie crap and Leg Lifts Lady. 

Who is currently having a poopmergency, so Marian sighs and runs off to recruit someone who can help her deal with that situation. 

All is quiet from Forty-One, Orange for another hour and a bit, and then her heart rate starts rising again.

Ughhhh. Marian is going to keep giving meds to Coma Patient while watching the monitor out of the corner of her eye to see if it goes high enough to set off the red alarm (currently set to trigger for >150bpm). 

It's rising slowly, and still in the 130s when she's done, but it hasn't leveled out by then.

She parks her butt in a chair and watches it. 

It levels out right around 140; her blood pressure and breathing rate are also up.

When this doesn't let up after another minute, Marian hauls herself out of the chair and steels herself to interrupt Dr Millinger in between rounds on two of the sicker patients. "Uhh. My patient's vitals are wonky again. Tachy this time. She might be in pain, can I try giving her something?" 

"Sure, whatever, fentanyl drip the usual and please don't bother me again until I round on her." 

Marian cringes slightly, thanks him quietly, and runs off to do this. (Aaaaaaaaah why is he MAD at her.) 

(Intellectually she knows he isn't mad at her, he's just like that.) 

She gets Elaine to sign off on fentanyl with her, and hangs it. Teeechnically it's not supposed to share an IV with propofol, but she'll start it in the same line and then put another IV in once the patient is already getting something for pain. 

She starts the drip. Any change in the patient's heart rate? 

Nope.

She will try to be patient and WAIT for it to take effect. Though after a couple of minutes she gets restless, and digs out supplies to place a second IV in the patient's other arm. 

Her heart rate stays at 140 through the whole process.

....Wow treating this patient is so frustrating. 

Marian finishes, switches IV lines around. Sits down and starts charting, still eyeing the monitor suspiciously. Probably it'll mysteriously go away, just as mysteriously as it started, that seems to be the kind of thing happening here. 

This one is particularly persistent, but eventually her heart rate starts falling back to normal, much more quickly than it rose.

Sure. Whatever. At this point Marian will take any opportunity she can get to give Elaine a report and go get herself some COFFEE. 

Some time later, there's a loud thunk from the clean storage room, as if something large and heavy has fallen.

Ack! Elaine nearly falls out of her chair. 

After a moment of nervous hesitation, she gets up to go investigate the sound. 

The... thing... that came in with their mystery patient is on the floor, currently moving one of its legs in an odd - but not inhuman - sort of way. It pauses after a moment and asks a question, politely but not in English at all.

Uhhhh whaaaat aaaaaaaah. 

She sprints out of the room. "Help call security or something I think the Burning Man robot was a person in a robot suit -" 

It doesn't follow immediately.

The charge nurse half-turns her head. "That makes...literally no sense...?" 

Marian makes it back to the unit while Elaine is still trying to fumblingly explain. 

"- It's what?" 

She honestly would NOT be SURPRISED if her weird patient's humanoid robot is possessed by demons. 

Probably if an art project is possessed by demons, the thing to do isn't to go look??? But what else is she supposed to do??? She can't call security for that, they'll laugh at her. 

Marian heads for the clean supply room. Creeps up to it, pressed against the wall, and peeks around the doorframe. 

It's still on the floor, looking pretty incapacitated, now moving both legs through what might be range of motion exercises if that made any sense for a demon-possessed robot.

What. 

It continues to be the case that the robot is moving. 

"- Hello?" Marian says hesitantly.