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[culver]

[the video coming on is a complete accident. the hallway she's in is cast mostly in gloom, and only slightly more than her outline is visible. nill is clutching the comm in her hand, the camera aimed at her crooked. she's wearing one of her dresses from the most recent jump. her face is just out of the frame, but her wings aren't. they're standing straight out from her back, quivering. and from just that small movement, a feather falls.

and then nill darts from her hiding spot into the lit hall, and her wings are in full view. they look scraggly, a few thin patches visible. the sudden movement makes another feather come out, and then the video darkens again as she finds shelter in the next dark hallway. the feed cuts.]

think i am sick
heine where are you

[ooc; molting molting molting yeah]

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[chaineddog]

[When he's deposited the feathers into the waste basket, he goes back to sit by the bedside, extracting his communicator. He takes a hold of her hand though after a moment.

Heine realizes how scared she must be. This has never happened before to her and he doesn't know what's happening either so he doesn't have answers for her. He idly scrolls through the contacts (and more specifically the people that Nill knows) because he realizes that this is a problem he can't tackle by himself.]

[culver]

[It makes her feel just a little better to have him close, and swathed by the blankets, she can pretend that everything is okay. Until she sees him with the comm, and she knows that he's going to call for help. But who? They didn't know any doctors, as far as she knew. Any male doctors, ones he could handle but--she couldn't. Wow, this was basically the worst case scenario for this particular situation.

But maybe someone he had talked to? When she spies Betty's name, she reaches out to touch the screen.]

[chaineddog]

[He knows that there's a male doctor on board (some John Watson guy that had introduced himself over the network) but he didn't know him and had never spoken to him. He wasn't even sure that Nill knew him but he was male and that already was a negative for her.

So he had sucked it up and called the only doctor of the female gender that he knew. The sight of her hand on his communicator makes him pause and he gives her hand a slight squeeze. It's stupid that his fingers are already shaking at the thought of having to text Betty and he hates that he can't even deal with this simple task.]

[culver]

[She knows that this is going to be awful for him. She would have told him that it was okay for him to go back to his room, wait in the hall, go anywhere but this cramped space--but she knew he would just ignore her. Tell her that he'd be fine, that he wanted to be there (a lie, of course, on more than one level). She holds his hand tightly for a moment, and then releases so he can send whatever message he was planning to.]

[chaineddog]

[Even when she lets go, she'll notice how long it takes for him to even pull up a blank message. Eventually he tries calling her but ends up hanging up already feeling an itch that he can't get rid of. After several breaths he forces himself to finally type out a message and it isn't long after that he received a message back in return.

It's only after he finishes corresponding with Betty that he visibly relaxes.]

She'll be here soon.