our hospital facilities are nationally acclaimed

[cross_and_bow]

Bella wakes up a day and a half later, a medical miracle with a splitting headache. (Between what she knows about her own construction and what the doctors mutter to the nurses, the demon stepped on her, it broke her spine, she passed out from pain and shock, and she could have easily died if she weren't blessed or the Slayer - both were probably called for.)

[Sherlock? Giles?] she attempts, when she's solicited and received pain medication.

Comments

[pythbox]

[Yes, that's about the size of it.]

[cross_and_bow]

[If I'd died and there was a new Slayer now would you be involved with her or would they send someone else?] Bella asks curiously. [I assume she'd be easier to find than I was.]

[pythbox]

[They would send someone else.]

[cross_and_bow]

[What would happen to you?]

[pythbox]

[Retirement, probably.]

Can you tell he doesn't like thinking about it? He doesn't like thinking about it.

[cross_and_bow]

She stops making him think about it. [I'll try to avoid getting stepped on again. I have a lot of squares and I'll use them if I have to, if we can't get any of the sand and they don't have other weaknesses. Are those Defender things at least difficult to make?]

[pythbox]

[They were at the time, but no records of the process survive that I've heard of, so I don't know if that might have changed in the intervening millennia.]

[cross_and_bow]

[I don't suppose we know why that kind of sand dissolves them.]

[pythbox]

[There's at least one separate theory for each of the candidate fountains. Demonologists with too much time on their hands have argued over it at length. I personally don't think there's enough information to support any of their conclusions.]

[cross_and_bow]

[Is there enough information to suggest any experiments on how to duplicate the effect? If there are - Powers forfend - a bunch of these, I'd rather not be down a hundred squares by the time I find the source of the problem if I could solve it with sand that was the right color or had the right ratio of diatoms in it.]

[pythbox]

[About the only thing we're sure of is that it was a magical property,] he says apologetically.

[cross_and_bow]

[Well, that's irritating.] She sighs. [I think Sherlock's asleep now, do you know if he's been able to get in to visit me or not? I don't know what visiting hours are like here.]

[pythbox]

[He hasn't mentioned anything.]

[cross_and_bow]

[I'll ask Jarvis. Thanks for the updates.]

[Hey, Jarvis, I'm awake.]

[poeticterms]

[Pleased to hear it,] says Jarvis.

[cross_and_bow]

[Do you know if Sherlock's been able to convince the hospital to let him visit at night or if he's tried or what?]

[poeticterms]

[He's been in to see you. I believe he skipped the wheedling step.]

[cross_and_bow]

[Ha. Should've guessed. They're talking about keeping me for a week, but the way I heal I'm betting I can get that down to a day or two. If I'm asleep when he wakes up will you let him know for me?]

[poeticterms]

[Of course.]

[cross_and_bow]

[Thanks. I'm gonna try napping off this headache now.]

[poeticterms]

[Good luck.]

[cross_and_bow]

Bella successfully sleeps. She wakes some three hours later, past dark, feeling significantly better.

[eversomuchfun]

She has a visitor!

[cross_and_bow]

"Hey you."

[eversomuchfun]

"Good morning. Feeling better?"