You can play the wolf

[demjiin]

WHO: Kaz Brekker and you?
WHERE: back in regular Temba
WHAT: Kaz's bad leg is punishing him for Not!Temba shenanigans
WHEN: August
WARNINGS: none anticipated but TBD



Public Kitchen/Inn

Kaz hadn't liked the idea of anyone seeing his weakness, but he would have to find a way to make this work to his benefit in Temba. Besides he was used to keeping company around with thieves, cheats, and murderers. In Temba it was a sight less lethal to show any sort of weakness. So, Kaz had hiimself set in one chair with his bad leg propped up in another. After the punishment he had put it through when exploring Not-Temba it was now throbbing angrily. His cane was leaned agianst the table next to him, while Kaz was looking through the Network posts on his smartphone.

The Deep End

It might be less odd to find him here, but as it had been earlier, there was a seat for himself and his bad leg proppeed on another. His cane was also leaned next to him, too. This time he was still looking at his smartphone, but also had a bottle of whiskey and a shot glass at his elbow.

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[demjiin]

...it looked like a dive bar. What was she seeing that Kaz was not? And Kaz would often react with a rude comment, or snarky comment, or even no comment at all with just some silent staring. But this time he didn't do any of that and just grimaced at his leg.

"Not exactly. Couple years ago I broke my leg. The bone was never set so it never healed right. I've walked with a limp ever since."

What Kaz isn't saying is that it was incredibly painful to try going without his cane for a while, and that cold could make the pain in his leg worse, and that sometimes even when he was using his cane the leg would still be painful to walk on at all. The cane looked to be a long black stick with a crow's skull making the handle and it was leaned against the chair that Kaz was sitting in.

[small_compromise]

She frowned thoughtfully, nodding as he explained. The facilities in Tipoca City were well equipped to make sure healing of any injuries the clone troopers suffered would be taken care of sufficiently that had she never left it wouldn't have occurred to her that not everyone had such access to things like that. Being here on an abandoned world had opened her eyes even more.

"Do you take medication for it?" the girl asked, pulling herself into a chair at an adjacent table so she wouldn't accidentally jar the young man's leg in trying to sit at one of the other chairs there.

[demjiin]

"No. All the pain killers in my world are like being drunk, already."

Kaz nodded to the bottle of whiskey beside him.

"The most I'll do is take the edge off the pain sometimes but I usually don't like the way being drunk feels. So most of the time I'll go without whiskey too."

[small_compromise]

"How about something topical? Like a salve?" Omega suggested. Hanging out in a bar on Ord Mantell did quickly teach her how much those drinks could affect people, so it wasn't too surprising that this happened to be Kaz's personal choice of remedy.

"Then it wouldn't affect your whole body, just where you put it."

[demjiin]

And just like that, Omega has Kaz's full and undivided attention.

"Would you be able to make a salve here in Temba?"

[small_compromise]

The girl offered him a faint smile. "The medical datapoint only lets me know how certain things, mostly for the hospital. But there's signs of old medicines and things, so I think it's mainly getting the ingredients for it. I might have to get the agricultural datapoint or find someone who already touched it, but making a salve should be possible."

[demjiin]

"The Datapoints will only stay in your memory one at a time. If you get the one for Agriculture, then Medical will be deleted from your memory."

And Kaz had been resistant to any of the Datapoints for the exact reason that they downloaded and deleted themselves directly to his brain.

"But if you talk to a guy called Tommy at the greenhouse, he does have the Agriculture Datapoint already. Kid, if you could make a salve that relieves pain in just one spot then I'll owe you big."

As in offering up your first born child, big. Kaz made very sure that he did not end up owing anyone favors.

[small_compromise]

That reminder did make her wrinkle her nose. She didn't much like the idea of that either, really. It wouldn't do much good to lose the medical knowledge if you still needed something of it when making the medicine.

"That's a good point. I'll go find Tommy then," she said resignedly. But Kaz had definitely responded positively to the suggestion. She'd be glad to help him out with that if she could. It wasn't a permanent fix, but it was something. "I'll see what I can do."