Ack! Nope nope nope not that! Marian squirms away and gets her hands up to block him and shakes her head vigorously. (On top of all the other problematic aspects, has he not NOTICED that she's, like, a decade older than him?) 

Why doesn't anyone here like sex????

Probably she should not seek out any more hugs because it'll just encourage him to sexually harass her? Ugh. She was appreciating the hugs. 

She also doesn't want to hurt his feelings by making him feel like he did something wrong, though - well, he did do something wrong, but it's not really his fault? 

Maybe she can convince the void to give her something nice for him. Come to think of it, she can totally make a case for therapeutic food. Xue Yang isn't quite as worryingly skinny as the other kid with the horrible clothes whose name she can't even slightly remember, but he looks pretty underfed, and the amount of delight he takes in expired candy and milk supports that theory too. 

She's sitting right up against the void wall, so she can pat it and say nice things about how good a job it did earlier without even standing up. And then ask if she could please, pretty please, get some kind of medically approved nutrition supplement to help this kid get into better condition, it would be so helpful and good. 

Oh, does it have something for her! 

What appears to be an...entire, rather battered and mistreated-looking, shipping pallet??? ...of boxes of something ??? - slides awkwardly out of the void wall and thuds on the floor. 

"What the– Oh. Oh." Marian finishes reading the print on the side and starts making excited noises. "Thank you! You're the best void! ...I hope you didn't steal this from some famine relief charity? You're still the best void in the world though!" 

It proves somewhat difficult to get the top box open, and she has to go get her hidden medical scissors and then pet them and say nice things to them for thirty seconds so they don't turn evil and murder her. And then she can open the first crate of almost 100 packets of concentrated 500-calories-each approved malnutrition treatment food paste. Hopefully it's not horrible tasting? It looks like it's mostly made of peanut butter, which is promising. 

Would Xue Yang like a packet of nutrient-dense food paste? 

This isn't candy!!! What kind of trick is the doctor pulling!!! He glares at her suspiciously.

...Okay maybe she should, in fact, try the food paste herself to determine how horrible it is before trying to convince Xue Yang that it's just as good as candy. She tears it open and smushes off a bit and puts it in her mouth. 

- huh, for nutritional supplement food paste that's surprisingly delicious? Not quite candy-like but it's sweetened and nutty and has a satisfying texture. She tries to very expressively show with her face that she's enjoying it, and then holds out the rest of the opened package to Xue Yang again. 

All right. He will give the doctor the benefit of the doubt.

... ... ... 

Fine. This is good. He will have some.

Marian lugs the rest of the boxes over to the shelving and moves some items so she can line the boxes up on the bottom shelf. There are eight of them. That's, like, eight hundred meals. 

Marian is beaming. She's so happy. She's grinning and wiggling with it. She'll be able to trade this for SO MUCH STUFF - really she should try to spread the word ASAP, she wants to find some upperclassmen artificers and alchemists to work with on making her infirmary actually a hospital. 

(A real ICU could have saved Sophie... Nope she's not going to keep dwelling on that, she did everything she could as fast as she could.) 

((Maybe the void...feels bad...? That it couldn't get her IV fluids or oxygen or anything else for respiratory support when she asked for it?))

She's so happy. She feels RICH. She feels, however briefly, like everything is going to be all right. 

Oh! OH! He can help lug boxes!

Awww, Marian would super appreciate help lugging boxes! She shows him where to put them. ...And then she's going to drape her remaining clean sheet over them, just in case someone gets bright ideas about stealing them rather than paying in trade items. 

She really wishes it made sense to give the poor deprived children in the death school food for free. But she has to be pragmatic, here. 

Does the doctor have anything else she needs from him? (Is she going to dissect the body now?)

Actually she's going to try to shoo him out, because she really wants to find someone from New York and talk to them, and it seems agonizingly awkward to have Crimes Kid hanging around doing who knows what. 

That's fine. He can go back to his room and eat the weird paste thing and spraypaint the walls.

Sophie's body is still sitting there, being a reminder of all the things Marian doesn't feel ready to think about yet, but it's a lot easier to try to move on with her life now that she's had some hugs, however sketchy and concerning the source of said hugs is as a person.