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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.

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pythbox

[Good luck,] he sighs.

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cross_and_bow

[Something wrong? Besides whoever's sending a Defender charging through Sunnydale?]

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pythbox

[You're in the hospital and I'm worried.]

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cross_and_bow

[I'll be fine, it's just a headache at this point,] Bella says. [But thanks.]

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pythbox

Giles ahems uncertainly.

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cross_and_bow

[Did you set out to find the Slayer without expecting her to land in the hospital at least now and then? I'm surprised I've made it this long.]

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pythbox

[Yes, actually. Slayers don't often make use of contemporary medical services.]

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cross_and_bow

[...Huh. Why not? Do injuries usually fall into the categories "instantly fatal" and "shrugged off in hours"? If that's it I may owe Amariah a few extra paragraphs' worth of thank-yous for the bayleaf and its friends.]

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pythbox

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

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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.]

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pythbox

[They would send someone else.]

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cross_and_bow

[What would happen to you?]

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pythbox

[Retirement, probably.]

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

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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?]

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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.]

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cross_and_bow

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

Edited Date: 2013-03-11 06:07 pm (UTC)

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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.]

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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.]

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pythbox

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

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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.]