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[ retro gm ] angel lí ✨
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nine times out of ten // kaplan blitz! Aug 18, 2021 21:47:32 GMT -5

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Post by [ retro gm ] angel lí ✨ on Aug 18, 2021 21:47:32 GMT -5

Bay Eon grins something stupid as she slams the knife down into the wood, bathing in her victory of finishing the Five Finger Skillet in a cool fifteen seconds. Punching the air, it's only when she realises everyone else is staring at her in horror does her smile droop to a confused frown.

"What?" she asks the crowd.

Then the pain registers, as does the half of her left pinky finger stabbed into the wood with a knife. What comes out of her mouth next is something guttural and far too expletive for a family-friendly event. She's seen blood before, plenty of her own, and the gnarliest of injuries. But it's something twice as horrifying to realise your own hand has been maimed, no less at your own damn fault. Cockiness was a slow-burn of a disease, she always knew it'd come back to get her the older she grew. She just hadn't realised she'd lose half a finger in the process.

"SOMEONE GET ME A FUCKIN' DOCTOR RIGHT FUCKIN' NOW HOLY FUCKIN' SHIT-"

Grasping at her bloodied, mangled hand, the world tips left and right and suddenly she's falling head-first to the green grass below - but all she sees is red.

Last Edit: Aug 18, 2021 21:47:46 GMT -5 by [ retro gm ] angel lí ✨

“and men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins.”

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nine times out of ten // kaplan blitz! Aug 19, 2021 8:30:39 GMT -5

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Post by kap on Aug 19, 2021 8:30:39 GMT -5

Cara Bellami

When you live in District Ten, the ratio of veterinarians to doctors is really quite unbalanced. That's why, when I was approached about being a 'medic' for the County Fair, I wasn't too surprised. Even though I work with animals rather than humans for my day job, I still knew how to treat most human injuries. So, once I confirmed that I knew how to stitch up fingers, they put me on site for the five finger fillet event.

Now, if you ask me, this event wasn't the wisest idea, but I wasn't going to find someone to argue with.

It wasn't long before a girl was screaming and panicking, and reasonably so. She'd just severed one of her own fingers, after all. She was yelling for a doctor, and I rushed over with my medical supplies. I started by using some gauze to try to quell the bleeding.

"I've got you, okay? I've got you. I'm going to have you sit down. Can you hold this here for me? I have to get out the stuff I need to help you, so I need you to keep this gauze on there." I said to her, my voice rather calm, yet firm in telling her what she needed to do. I hoped I wasn't giving her too many instructions. She was going to bleed through the gauze quickly, I was sure, but it was the best I could do until I got out the rest of my supplies to really be able to help her.

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nine times out of ten // kaplan blitz! Aug 22, 2021 23:43:11 GMT -5

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Post by [ retro gm ] angel lí ✨ on Aug 22, 2021 23:43:11 GMT -5

Call it shock, but Bay begins to hyper-fixate on the lady's words. Every single one she draws out and repeats in her head, a way to try and distract from the pain. She's used to diverting the part of her brain that registers hurt, numbing it to an afterthought in battle. But this was an unexpected hurt, and the worst injury she's ever sustained. Broken bones and puncture wounds have nothing over chopping off part of your finger.

How kids come out of arena's with half of their limbs left, Bay might never understand.

"Can you hold this here for me?" the doctor asks, calm and unbothered like she's done this a thousand times.

Can I hold this here for her?

"I can," Bay responds to the question, slow and slurred in shock. "I can."

"I have to get out the stuff I need to help you, so I need you to keep this gauze on there."

"On there..." numb, a broken record. Her hand feels like it's on fire. She'd know - the worst kind of pain, she's a water sun, raised half of her life by a winter girl.

"You're very kind," Bay replies after a while with a shallow breath, following instructions as ordered. "Nobody's ever said anything nice to me before- ahh!"

It hurts!

"It hurts," Bay repeats her thoughts aloud, tears stinging as she bites down on her bottom lip. "It fuckin' hurts!"