Training Open The Doctor's In! (And... very inexperienced.)

[Kaii Nashirou]

Taking a sniff at the medicament provided, Kaii winces but obediently opens up his maw to intake the concoction. After swallowing it he smacks his tongue a few times before speaking again. "I know not that much about the medical sciences, but why is it that all medicaments taste like arsewater?"

He pouts sarcastically for a moment, while the mixture gets into his organism. Not too long after that, his body and expression relaxes. Now sedated, his mind wasn't as operational as it should be and with dampened pain his natural curiosity took over. With a healthy paw, he reached to his tool bag for a measuring device.

"Maybe I should leave this metal here... no need to wear down my bones if I can have a reinforcement inside..." He started mumbling while trying to measure the shard of metal stuck in his arm, now fully incapable of realizing the absurdity of his situation.

 

[FinnianBrightfur]

The surgeon looked down at Kaii, and was pleased to find his form relaxing slightly as the pain eased. This would allow him to work. Drawing a table alongside, Mr. Barrett began to work the shards of metal free with a pair of forceps.

He gave a rare smile as the younger fox began to speak in inanities, and looked over to Finn with a chuckle. "No, young sea beast. I don't think these will strengthen your bones... Come on over, Finny. Keep the patient company. I think you'll find his temperament amusing, to say the least!”

Finn tentatively came back over, and glanced to the tray with the extracted shrapnel in it. His face screwed up in disgust, and then he made the mistake of looking at Kaii's arm. Euughh!

Coming around the other side, Finn leaned up on the table, and studied the other fox. "Hello, fellow vulpine!" he said playfully, teasing Kaii with his strange introduction. "'m Finny. What's your name?"

The pine martin returned again to the fox with some gauze, a bowl of warm water, a razor, and a needle and thread. "Just going to clean up your arm here a little, and shave some of the fur away so I can stitch it properly..." he explained.

 

[Kaii Nashirou]

Kaii couldn't be too bothered with the ongoing operation on his arm. Not with dampened pain and much more interesting ideas that flew within his drugged head. As the voice of the kit reached him, his ears turned to Finn followed by the his head.

"Hey there kit, I am Kaii, head of the Nashirou house in service to the Imperium." He responded casually, as if it wasn't a great deal at all. "Say, can you write and do the math? I feel like I could use some help while your mentor mends my wounds." Kaii added, while raising his head and extending his healthy paw to Finn, offering him a divider for measurments, smeared in some of his blood from an attempt to measure the piece of metal extracted from his arm.

 

[FinnianBrightfur]

Finn had some education, but dividers were admittedly a new thing for him. He was a bit leery about the blood on them... But he could endure that. The fox's arm on the other hand churned his stomach.

"Well... I can read mostly, and write... What's this for?" he asked, handling it carefully. Meanwhile, the surgeon had started on the sutures on Kaii's arm. Finn peered over to watch with morbid curiosity, but had to look away as he saw Mr. Barrett putting a stitch in.

"'m Finn by the way!"

 

[Kaii Nashirou]

Kaii smiled leisurely, giving Finn a piece of paper and a coal with his healthy paw.

"Nice to meet you Finn. I am an engineer, I need measurements for my projects that is it. However holding the paper and writing with one paw is just too easy for me to bother." Kaii gave him a smug smile with a slow swat of his tail. "So I need you too put them down for me if you would be so kiiiiiiiiiiiiiind-!"

Kaii scowled as Rugg pulled the skin for stitching. Despite that he wasn't loosing his calm. A sharp pant after the scowl left his expression just as relaxed as it was before.

"As I was saying, If you could lend me a paw, that would be most splendid of you. Especially as I don't think I will be able to make those myself whilst I have those stitches. And in the process you can learn some math for your future work. Everyone wins this way."

He finished, looking at Finn with narrowed pupils.

 

[FinnianBrightfur]

Finn fumbled with the paper and writing utensils as they were pushed into his paws. He glanced hesitantly at the materials, before looking slowly over at Mr. Barrett with uncertainty.

"Is... Is that the laudanum making him so weird?" he asked. Simultaneously, both beasts stood up, and loomed curiously over Kaii.

"...I have no idea..." mused Mr. Barrett dryly, peering down at the fox like he was a little science experiment.

"...we should give him more!" said Finn with a grin spreading over his face.

"Finny, NO! Laudanum is a dangerous substance that must be treated carefully. It is NOT for your amusement," rebuked the pine martin sternly, sitting back down.

"But he still seems to be in pain!" replied Finn sympathetically. "Maybe just a little?"

Even the pine martin had to struggle to keep a straight face at that. "Heh... Heh-HEM. No. No Finn, that wouldn't be appropriate," he chided resolutely, starting another stitch.

 

[Kaii Nashirou]

Kaii chuckled upon their consternation. His drugged mind was far removed from his everyday way of living and thinking. He looked at the two doctors, wincing with pain as the needle entered his skin again.

„Yeowch,” He yelped, looking at the wound being closed. “You consider curiosity and attempt at learning weird? Peculiar…”

Kaii then pointed at the utensils he gave Finny. As Mr. Barrett continued to work, he occasionally scowled while speaking.

“There is nooooo~thing wrong with learning at any point. Trying to thiii~iiiiink of something new and brilliant is how the progress is made after all. And beast’s body isssssss… not that far off the mechanisms they can build.”

He gestured over his wounded arm, leading his claw along the bone and elbow.

“The arm is not toooooooo~ different from a set of pipes connected with fringes and springs. Who knows? Maaaayy~be in a hundred or so years, all armsssssonofa~, erkhm, arms and paws at workshops will be made of metal? Working powered by the engines instead of ffffffforcing kits or poor to die en massed by them.”

 

[FinnianBrightfur]

Finn puzzled at the fox in front of him, and propped his head up on his paws as he considered Kaii. He was certainly a curious beast, and seemed out of place. But then again, only a short while ago, he was a stow away.

Nothing Kaii said seemed to make sense to him. Arms and paws of metal? How would that be a good thing?

Mr. Barrett, on the other hand, was following what Kaii was saying well enough. "Hmm, mm. And maybe they'll figure a way to make your noggin an engine too, to relieve your poor brain from all that hard thinking it's doing..." he teased.

"Alright Finn, come over here and take a look. We're almost done. Just one stitch left." Though Finn had been terribly nauseous moments ago, he was settling down again. Kaii's arm was looking much better now, except for one tiny spot.

"Now, the needle is curved, so you can pass it through like this, see?"

Finn watched with morbid fascination. "Euugghhh... skin shouldn't move like that!"

 

[Kaii Nashirou]

Whilst the final stitch was being made, Kaii sadly now fixated on the new idea. An engine for a brain... to this poor soul it sounded plausible. He thought of a machine that could deal with numbers, make decisions and command things!

"An engine brain! Such a novel idea! I should visit you chirurgeons much more often I dare say!"

Yet as his mind went into overdrive yet again, it burned through the last drops of the sweet opioid that gave it the freedom to think beyond reason. While he was still drugged overall, Kaii went from rapidly looking around and panting with a smile back to... well, his usual self. With resigned, tired eyes and smile that spoke of nothing but pain it hid, he sighed heavily.

"Alright... I feel like crap I dare to say. My thanks to you, beasts. Anything I ought to know now? Other than obvious stuff like ensuring to not lose more blood that is?"

He spoke methodically, letting for the two to finish their job while all of the exhaustion from the wounds hit him.

 

[Arthur Barrett]

A few moments ago, Finn was entirely unable to tolerate watching the procedure... but now that Kaii was almost all stitched up, it wasn't so bad. (That, and Kaii wasn't in much pain. Perhaps that was the most difficult part, really.) Finn fox drew up behind Barrett, and leaned over his shoulder to watch as he worked. The pine martin looked back, seemingly displeased with having his personal bubble invaded... but softened after a moment of thought. It was a difficult profession, and Finn was doing his best. He'd bear with the kit.

"There's the curiosity. That'll serve you better'n fear, kit." With a sigh, he rubbed a thumb gently over Kaii's forearm, pulling the skin a little to illustrate his point. "Now see, the skin's just like a sail canvas. Just a little softer, and thicker. Y'want to push through it all in one go, not jab at it like a rotten woodpecker. Go deep enough so it won't pull out, but not so deep that you're catching meat." And with that, he gestured the movement in the air for Finn.

The pine martin looked up at Kaii for a moment, gauging whether or not the medicine was still effective. The poor todd looked exhausted. "Not done yet... Y'got one more left in ya?" With a resigned nod from Kaii, Barrett gripped the forceps firmly, and in an elagently slow motion, passed the needle through, and evened up the tails.

"Well done, pup..." he said, watching Kaii to make sure he was alright. "Straight across, see?" he said, returning to his instruction, and drawing the knot snug. "You want the edges to come together without a wrinkle. And you tug just until the sides meet, no more, or it puckers." With a deft movement, he tied the suture off, and trimmed the tails.

"Alright Finn, bandage him up. We'll keep him here for an hour or so to rest, and then light duty for a week until it heals."

 

[Kaii Nashirou]

Kaii went on looking with tired gaze at Finn while the kit patched him up. He spoke as earlier, stoically, calmly and with measured tone.

"So next week is when we get major engine problem knowing my luck... got it."

He chuckled darkly and he lied back fully on the table, with a quiet sigh relaxing for a moment.

Kaii waited patiently till his bandage was done before he spoke politely to the kit, not wanting to interrupt him as he worked.

"Sorry kit, I am a tad bit overwhelming at times and this 'medication' I was given..." He paused to chuckle a bit. "Relaxed me a bit too much." "You don't seem much confident with blood. Are you younger than revolution?"

He asked with curiosity in his eyes, already forgetting to not exert his body as he tried to lift himself up to get a good look at Finny.