rekindleme | [open] a helping hand

Who: Kanonno and anyone who's feeling sick from lack of contact
Where: Anywhere
When: 13th of June (alternatively, forward date to the 18th for stage 2)
Summary: It's a week since everyone arrived in Saeng Seong-- Kanonno's worried about anyone who's too stubborn to believe in the whole hugging thing.
Warnings: Invading your personal space if necessary--

[Today is the one week mark since everyone's arrival in Saeng Seong. Kanonno understands that there's truth to the whole touch system detailed in their letters, but she hasn't been actively trying to reach her quota due to the awkwardness of how to approach it. So far, touching happens to her naturally enough that she's been scraping by: bumping into people in crowded areas, touching hands when returning something someone dropped, trying to help out other people who believe in the energy system... things like that. But if she's having this hard of a time adjusting, she can't help but worry about people averse to physical contact or are just plain stubborn about being told what to do.

That's why today she's being extra vigilant about people feeling unwell, and approaching anyone that looks like they need some help:]

"Excuse me... are you okay?"

[EDIT- ooc: Guess who forgot to reread the game mechanics before posting this? If you want to be accurate, destabilizing starts today, but no one starts to feel ill until about the 18th, so feel free to forward date this/come by next week if you want. Just imagine her doing a daily patrol or something along those lines. ]

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"Mm-hmm... Everything's kinda a dull ache, which is fine, but I don't actually hurt anywhere. Which, come to think, is a problem."

Pushing up her sleeves as she sits up slowly, there's a significant scrape on one hand, and a bruise starting to blossom on an arm. Sora pokes at it and doesn't react automatically, frowning when she realizes it.

"Damn. That was something I was hoping not to do." She looks over at the girl that she'd almost landed on top of, smiling slightly. "Sorry I snapped, I didn't want to fall on you. That would have hurt both of us a fair bit more."

"It's fine! Sometimes shouting is the only way to get the point across in time."

Kanonno waves off the apology with a small giggle. When things get serious, there's not always time to be polite. She knows that from her various guild jobs.

She squats down to meet the girl at eye level, double-checking for any injuries despite the girl's assurance that she was fine. Nothing hospital-worthy, good. That scrape looks pretty bad though.

"Want me to patch that up for you?"

"Mm. That's a lesson I learned a long time ago..." She sighs, wanting to check her back but lacking a mirror (not to mention the lack of modesty needed to disrobe in front of another girl in the middle of the street!).

Submitting to Kanonno's visual inspection, she nods when the girl proposes a quick fix. "That's probably a good idea. The last thing I need is to make my body worse than it already is." Looking at her hands, she continues, "And that's before I get to my magic not working. Which doesn't happen. I wonder if something's wrong...?"

"This might sting, sorry." Kanonno apologizes before disinfecting the wound, then gets to dressing it. She ponders the question while doing so, not coming up with an answer until she's about halfway done:

"I wonder if that's the city's doing. The letter said we'd get ill, but it also said something about an energy drain... maybe it means magical energy too?"

"I'm used to it by now. If I can get through a battle with just this much damage, I'm doing pretty well." Like the time she exploded herself, or the time she almost burned in her own cockpit, or the time she made it back with half a mecha, or...

"That's a possibility too," she agreed. "But... I don't feel any different. Well, aside from feeling like one big bruise, which doesn't really count."

Kanonno isn't convinced the two things are related, and asks to make sure. "Is that normally something you would notice before it happened? It could be that the drain isn't physically noticeable until a certain point."

"Oh, yeah. I'd know if I were running on empty. This doesn't normally happen. Ever." A long moment as Sora considers her fall. "And it's not that I'm tired. It's more like... nothing's working right."

To illustrate, she raises her uninjured hand to conjure a ball of light. And as she watches, it starts to... deform, and shrink, before stabilizing (for the moment) at about half the size.

"If this is what happens from lack of energy... I think it's more than enough of a motivator for me."

Aaand done. Kanonno lets go of Sora's hand-- oh, that counts as touching, right?

"You already have a headstart from me fixing up your hand, why not test it out and see if your magic starts working better tomorrow?"

Sora appraises her hand for a moment, nodding once; it was solid work. "Thank you... I'll have to check for more damage later, but this'll keep me for now. I'm not good at the whole 'medic' thing.

"And I'll try my magic tomorrow, but... I get the sense it might take more than this to keep it stable. If this were enough, they wouldn't need so many of us, right? A few people could snuggle on a couch for a few days straight and that'd be the end of it." There's no way it could be that easy... right?

Edited 2013-06-18 14:23 (UTC)

No, it's never that easy. Kanonno's just trying to be optimistic. "I don't think so either, but every little bit helps, right?"

"And even if it was that easy, we're generating power for an entire city full of people who don't have the ability to do so for themselves, and more. I can't imagine just how much they need."

"Right. We're already here, and the government is so graciously putting us up, and all we have to do in exchange is hug each other for a few minutes a day? Works for me. And if we have to be here for a while to work off their 'debt'... I can live with that. Probably," she amends. She would like to go home at some point.

"As long as we get to go home when we're done, I don't mind helping out either. They didn't want to bring us all here, but they had no other choice, and they're doing what they can to make us comfortable.... I can sympathize with that." There's a bit of an awkward pause after that, as she looks down at the ground with a complicated expression.

When she looks up again, she smiles with her hand extended for a handshake. "I'm Kanonno, by the way."

[open] a helping hand

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