Flywheel waits patiently in Traceless's arms for the world to decide what should be done with her.
Both her legs are badly broken - she's not really giving much indication that this bothers her, though there's some tension in her face and jaw.
She reaches Flywheel's side to see the damage with her power.
She stills, very abruptly, upon what she 'sees.' (She cuts off pain signals in the relevant areas, because she is herself.)
"..... who the fuck set these, and was Epione nearby for pain relief or was it done without any in her system."
(Flywheel doesn't respond very visibly to the painblock, but some of the tension on her face and in her jaw fades.)
Oh shit. Here we go. No strong opinions. "I did, ma'am. Field-expedient to prevent further injury. It was, ah. Quite bad. Patient did not request pain relief when asked."
(April is getting kind of concerningly used to watching Ji-woo unfuck the human body. On the plus side she's also getting so good at being a sturdy backpack.)
...
She needs to count to ten so as not to start yelling. During this time, she turns to a minion and requests one of those saline spray bottles for her new patient's lungs. And pats April, the best backlash backpack.
There is, nonetheless, an aura of Doom.
"Okay, so, one. Just because a patient doesn't specifically request pain relief does not mean we ignore it entirely for expediency. Because we do not torture people when we can avoid it. Patients, especially esper patients, are often out of it and have difficulty meaningfully consenting. As medical professionals it is our duty to do the best by them even if they are completely incapable of consenting. For espers, especially combat espers who have just come out of a high rank dungeon, you should not assume that just because they don't say anything they have no preferences. If something takes a little longer but does not torture the patient, and the patient is not literally about to die - which she isn't - then you do not err on the side of torture."
Deep breath. Good job, Ji-woo, you have kept the volume low and the points sharp.
"Two. This is a fucking team sport. If you do not know how to set bones! Which I can tell you do not!" Shit, shit, losing the not yelling, tone it down. "Do. Not. Touch. Them. Get an actual professional. Neither one of us would be half as effective as we are without the amazing ordinary people that have trained their entire lives for putting people back together, but who did not win the esper lottery. I'm not going to touch how you have access to teleports and I am still on the continent, because I will not always be, but you, specifically, need to hire several bone guys to assist you with this shit, and before you touch anything broken, you need them to tell you the best way to set things. Or let them do it, with you directing what you're seeing."
(One of these days she is going to slip and say "I wanna be you when I grow up" out loud.)
Traceless sure wishes he knew what Flywheel was under such a pile of. The inability to feel pain is a real backlash! People have it! He interviewed a lady who has it and doesn't dungeoneer for the same reason that she's a vegan because her power is a fucked up torture power because she was willing to talk to him before he even awakened as an animals-and-monsters welfare activism thing! Being insensible to pain can kill you, which is a way more reliable backlash trait than being unpleasant per se! But as long as he himself is not too backlashed he is going to note-to-self to have a postmortem about that later with his free hand. Note to self do not assume the guy with the practiced bedside manner and the healing power that has a time-sensitivity component also practiced medical espering tradeoffs to Uisa's standards. The lesson probably generalizes beyond that and he will work out how later.
The following is a verbalization of Tim's subconscious thought process. Timothy Bartholomew Delgado is not nearly this coherent under this sort of pressure.
Okay, sure, let's review the alternatives:
Do nothing! OK, let's move on.
Risk a fragment of femur piercing the femoral artery, following a superstrength-powered muscle spasm! No complaints from the patient then, either!
Call over someone who can set bones! Sure, with a portable X-ray machine instead of a power that lets you see exactly where the bones are! And we can cover her with a lead blanket and hope we don't disturb her muscle fragments, and continue to hope that those fragments stay away from anything delicate. And by the time the X-ray machine was brought over, my power would have fixed everything anyway, probably.
Teleport Uisa over here...might...actually have been a good idea? Shit. This is what you get when you're used to doing fast work under pressure.
When he replies after a moment, his face and voice are - well, not perfectly flat, he's human. But they certainly aren't expressive right now. "We can review this in the AAR, ma'am. In the meanwhile, I believe the patient should be largely recovered within twenty minutes, based on previous cases. Let me know if you need to do anything else."
His body language is quite a bit tenser. His shoulders are hunched, and his knuckles are clenching in on themselves.
Ji-woo blows a breath out through her teeth. This is the kind of guy that gets defensive and silently digs in when yelled at, not the kind that realizes immediately that he fucked up. Great. Perfect. Amazing. Fortunately he's still a baby, so she can forcibly beat that out of him in a couple of years. This is not the most effective strategy for handling this person.
"Fine." She says the next part very deliberately, because he has to know it as soon as possible: "But when in doubt, get help, because you are not experienced at this yet and need to conduct yourself accordingly."
And then she takes a deep breath, and she moves on. Always more work to do.
"I'm going to need to get the shit out of her lungs at some point - you," this is at Traceless, "you're her partner, yeah? How bad is her backlash level, have you two worked out guiding boundaries? Do you need a privacy tent?"
"I have known her for a couple of days, Willowbark was her partner previously, but, uh, yes. She didn't mind making out sans tent yesterday. Her backlash scale is not working right now" and he doesn't! know! why! "but it's a lot. My primary also was in Arrakis racking it up and does not have another guide - it might be relevant if you expect Flywheel to be medically stable for sleep-guiding tonight, because my primary can't do those."
Unknown to Uisa, he's actually willing to concede that he fucked up but he doesn't want to get in a dissection of his fuckups while the patient does not actually have functional legs. They can talk about it afterwards! They have a patient to attend to!
"I mean, I could have called for help. I'm used to - aggressive dungeon triage, solo. But, it's not as important as our patient right now." His next statement is directed towards the Legs Gal. "I'm, uh, sorry, ma'am. You can have the apology when you're, uh. Less backlashed. If you want it."
Willowbark's...?
"......... Ah," says Ji-woo, putting some pieces together. She knew Willowbark had gotten a new partner (and was enamored with her) but.... this girl doesn't have any kind of support network, clearly, just this guy who is filling in for her right now after her death. Willowbark was - well. Not very good at asking for help.
It is becoming painfully clear that she perhaps really fucking needed it. She told her that she needed to get more staff - ugh. Not the time to think about it.
"Okay. Okay," she says, as she thinks. This? Is a mess. "Sean, guiding tent, please, we need to get this girl socially isolated, stat. Get it up over there, away from the crowds but still in the circle." She points with her free hand. "She is medically stable right now and will be for co-sleeping. I - assume I am not hearing what her backlash is because it's not on record. Are there backlash mitigation things she needs, since you're tragically incapable of being in two places at once? Do you know any secondaries she has?" Or did Willowbark fuck that up, too?
"One guiding tent coming up." He's put these up a couple of times during the short but extremely eventful Barge Era of his life. He can do it, with help if help is available, without it if everyone's busy with other things.
"I have not been told everything. I am not aware of secondaries but she is at least some compatible with Min Woo-Young, I have been told there's no agent to ask. I think you should be sure that you literally mean anything you tell her to do but I don't know the boundaries of that exactly, just that - I had to tell her to breathe normally after she was told not to move, so, uh, don't re-up that or if you do amend it with a clarification pronto." He's murmuring very softly, espers everywhere, mitigate the leak.
She was compatible with Starfist not useful, and also nobody asked her. But - when people are trying to help her, she shouldn't make it harder for them - "No secondaries," she whispers.
Fuck. She gives a firm nod. "Understood." Tap tap, at a commscreen, and there's a little flash of blue to get one of her cards. She hands it to Traceless. "This has my number if you have specific medical concerns for her that you do not want to voice out loud." Because she understands how this works and is being smart about it.
"I'm going to try to get a hold of Woo-young, but I've got some compatibility with her on my end. Flywheel, can you rate the guiding on a scale of one to ten, from me in particular?" Fucking asymmetric guiding and its shit...
Number goes in his contacts. He does not in fact have specific medical concerns! He'd really like to have more specific things to be concerned about but "I'm incredibly embarrassingly ignorant" is really the main thing here. As an infosec measure he taps out a quick update to the June/Casey/agent chat.
Reasonable of him.
"Okay. Four is not the worst, and I'll need to fix her lungs anyway. I can be honorary backup secondary for today. Unless we win the lottery for like a fourth time this week - April, give her a quick boop for a compatibility check, please?"
"...three?" maybe a bit higher because of the backlash, but this is the awakening girl so she'll keep having that much backlash...