Fika explores the Amentan colony
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Fika is happy to do that! Riding on the seat-Amentan's head. Since he's a seat and all.

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"That's not great for my neck. You can sit on my shoulders if you want."

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She can do a handstand on his shoulders too! For a bit anyways. Then she falls. 

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He tries to catch her but he's not actually good at this.

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She wasn't actually expecting him to try and catch her and it interrupts her own attempt to twist her legs around to land on her feet. Instead, she ends up crashing head first into the floor. 

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"Fuck! Are you okay?!"

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She would answer that but she when tries to get up from the ground she feels sorta dizzy and vomits on the chair-Amentan instead of answering him.

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"AUGH - HELP -"

Presently the both of them are swarmed by helpful passersby. Chair-Amentan is whisked away to the nearest shower. Fika is divested of her clothes, wrapped up in a donated scarf, and carried to a hospital.

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She was actually wearing those clothes and is confused about them being taken, but she can go and find them when she's done napping. The scarf is soft anyways - not as soft as an amalien blanket, but soft.

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When next she wakes up she will be in a large bed in a private hospital room with a pulse monitor hooked up; the machine next to her flips over from a dark amber light to a pale yellow one as she comes to.

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Amentan nap rooms! She'll keep napping here s'long as nothing's happening - it'll take longer for her to be all okay and she doesn't need to rush.

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An orange sticks her head in when the machine registers consciousness but then ducks out again when Fika's still asleep.

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Fika stirs a bit when the head is poked him in but won't be waking up for a couple of days 'less someone is talking near her or something.

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The oranges keep their conversations out in the hall; audible but not intrusive.

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Nap nap nap. 

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The Amentans are going to consult other amaliens on whether there's anything else to be done for her, of course, but if they should be leaving her alone then they will.

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Lucien is busy dealing with a minor crisis, but he finds time to let them know that Fika presumably just needs to nap, and possibly be reminded not to scare Amentans by getting hurt too much - she did this during first contact too. 

He also adds a note to his schedule(!) to check on what Fika's been up to, once he's dealt with the amalien trying to build an art project on train tracks outside the city.

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When Fika's been napping for a few days Lucien receives a very solemn and poorly spelled email asking if it will help her get better faster for other people to also nap with her.

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Lucien doesn't think it actually speeds anything up (he'd check with Vira but she's busy) but Fika would probably be happy about it and feel nicer when she does wake up if friends napped with her. 

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In that case, if Fika is courteous enough to wake up in the middle of the night, Kota will have wheedled his way into bed with her.

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Fika stirs in her sleep after a few nights. 

There's a friend here! That makes sense. She'll go back to napping till he wakes up in the morning. 

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He gets woken up by his dad sticking his head in to tell him it's time to go get ready for school.

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"Hi!" 

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"- oh! Hello, Fika. You feeling all better?" asks Kota's dad.

"Fikaaaa!" says Kota, hugging her.

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"Kotaaa!"

Fika is happy to hug her friend Kota! 

"Did I nap long?" It didn't feel like a long nap.

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