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WHO: Robin Buckley, Open
WHERE: Open Seas, Palace Infirmary
WHAT: Fetch Quest Gone Predictably Wrong
WHEN: Mid September
WARNINGS: Possible violence because Robin isn't allowed near water without being attacked

I. Fetch Quest Gone Wrong | Open Seas

This had of course been a very bad idea from the start. At this point, Robin should have really known better. Her and water did not mix without danger. There was Lovers Lake. There was that weird scaly cat thing in the weird mermaid dream. There was another weird scaly cat thing in the winter. Honestly, there was a lot that had to do with weird scaly cat things. What it really came down to was that Robin ended up in a lot of trouble when she was alone. So the logical thing to do would have been not go out on her own.

Then again, there had been a pretty girl that had needed help gathering these specific glowing corals for this festival thingy. Actually, Robin couldn't really remember all of the details. Look, in her defense, the mermaid was extremely pretty and well, wearing about as much as you would expect of a mermaid that wasn't animated. So yeah, things had really been thought through all the way.

Which, of course, was why right now, Robin was on the run. Well, maybe it would be more accurate to call it on the swim? Whatever language you wanted to use, there was no denying the fact that she was fleeing as fast as her tail would allow. Which wasn't all that fast, given she kept on getting it tangled in all the faintly glowing kelp around her. At least she was calling it kelp because she had to call it something while she was fleeing for what was probably all life from one of the most terrifying fish that she had ever imagined. If the Upside-Down made fish, this thing with its massive teeth and glowing eyes and the little dangling lure between them would probably count as it.

And the giant scary fish was, of course, catching up.

"I swear that if I live through, this is the last time that I'm going to and try to impress with really cute mermaids."

It was probably a lie, but she might as well get it out there. After all, it felt less damsel and distressy than bellowing for help. Again.

II. A Fin In Need Is A Fin Indeed | Palace Infirmary

Why was it that her life was a game of good news, bad news? Good news, Robin Hood survived the attack of the creepy fish. Bad news, she had had to be rescued it again. Good news, she hadn't made a complete fool of herself in the process. Bad news, she had been injured in the process. Good news, the nice mermaid had been very nice about the whole thing and even given her this sweet little smile. Bad news. Instead of being watched over by another really cute mermaid in the Infirmary, she'd had Dr Takemi frowning sternly at her. Good news, the damage to her tail had been mostly superficial, with holes being punched into the massive beta-like tail she had. Bad news, mostly superficial, is partly non-superficial.

Which, of course, was why Robin was still in the Infirmary, floating there in a little bit of exasperation as something not unlike a squid mixed with a panda bear worked on pasting stinging salves on the few teeth marks in the muscles of what she'd guess was around the area of her knees.

May at least the lecture had stopped some time ago. Seriously, the Doctor had such a good I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. Look, didn't she? Robin tried not to think on it too hard as she floated there considering the 'recovery meal' laid out before her of clams she was apparently supposed to shuck with her own webbed and clawed hands. Apparently the stuff was good for her recovery. Except they looked so gross.

"Seriously, is there not something else I could have," she asked the panda-squid, who mostly just ignored her and kept working with its many black and white tentacles or whatever they were. "I'd kill right now for a pizza. Or a milkshake."

[OOC Note: I just want to know that to account for things like my pain, I am now using a voice to text program. I am doing my best to double proofread things before I post them because it is not always the best ad handling linguistics. That said, you may sometimes find extra spaces in places that they don't belong, or capitalization where it isn't meant to be. Character names may also come out wrong, or a sentence may be slightly weird. I am sorry for all of this. I am doing my best. I beg your patience. Thank you. ]

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Robin isn't the only one in the infirmary. She may hear the newcomers before she sees them: a protest that it's just like that, the countering insistence that the speaker needn't be shy, injuries are nothing to be ashamed of and they'll have him patched up soon. A moment later another creature glides in, a petite and slightly chubby mermaid with a no-nonsense attitude about her. She's got her hand around the wrist of a still protesting male cecaelia, brushing off each of his grumbling comments with the efficiency of much practice.

"Stay here," she orders him, swimming over to pull supplies off the same shelf from which Robin's nurse got them. "You'll scar worse if you keep moving. Be like this nice young lady instead and stay put!"

That last had a great amount of heat to it as, with the ability of nurses everywhere to see problem patients out of the back of her head, she snapped right around and pinned the Soldier with a look. Grumbling more, he stopped moving toward the entry and settled for looking extremely grumpy instead.

Uh oh, scary guy at three o'clock. Wait, was that what people meant when they said something like that? She really wasn't quite sure. Sure, she could be time on actual clocks, but this was a little bit of a weird thing to try and say. Still, there he is, getting manhandled or perhaps squid handled, she has no clue what in the world he's supposed to be, by a nurse. Which by all rights, is a little bit funny when somebody looks as grumpy as he does. Grumpy and scary. Actually, now that she thinks about it, is he like a friend of Dr Takemi's? Because they both have that kind of creepy vibe going on. The one that says don't ask questions, just listen, or else I'm going to make you regret it.

"What happened to you?" she ventured nervously.

It probably was pretty scary, seeing a person (creature) who looked like the Soldier. He knew the impression he gave off. He counted on it in fact, wore it like armor and leveraged it as adroitly as any knife he held. But looks weren't everything; while he could bring down the walls, he didn't really want to. And for all his grumbling and grumpy attitude, he stayed where he was.

And when Robin ventured talking, he didn't discourage her.

"Nothing," he replied; that grumpy expression remained but there was no heat in the words he directed toward Robin. It wasn't her fault he was here. "And I mean that literally; someone took a look at me and decided the damage was hospital-worthy."

It looked it anyway; the scars around his metal appendages angry and red. But that was normal for the Soldier and his metabolism and the modifications he's had. Unfortunately, no one believed it yet, and he didn't exactly want to detail what made him this way. That reluctance had led to him being bullied to the hospital to try to avoid causing a scene elsewhere, and that in turn landed him with a nurse he hadn't been able to bully into letting him leave untreated.

" Wait, so you're telling me they have you in here for nothing? Didn't you tell them that you're always like that? Well, not with all of the arms and stuff, but the metal ones?"

Because clearly he hadn't thought of something like that. She was really bright in that manner, wasn't she? Still, it meant that there was now a task ahead of her that was far more interesting than just lying here convalescent while some other creature was stitching up her tail.

" So we're staging a jailbreak? Or I guess Infirmary break would be more accurate. Basically, you're looking for a way to get out here, right?"

Interestingly enough, the creature that was stitching her up didn't seem bothered by this discussion at all, just intent upon its work.

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