Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26104528-20170312033542/@comment-26104528-20170914232158

Before long, there was another knock at Kurai's door. Outside, Dr. Li gave him a few moments to himself before gently opening the door and leaning in.

"Unfortunatly, Agent Panzier did not leave your real name when he checked you in." the balding man shrugged as he got out a datapad. "So forgive me for continuing to use the alias he made for you."

"Mr. Scholz, the Cellular Regeneration treatment is still fresh so I strongly advise against exerting yourself at all." he motioned at Kurai's belly area as he thought back to last night's events...

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Earllier that day, 3:47 AM...

For the last 5 hours, a long oval-shaped robot had been positioned above Kurai, gently whirring and whining as a dozen slender robotic arms descended from the center. Each was either preforming microscopic lacerations to clear the work done in Wolfe's Infrimary or doing something else to trigger extremely controlled cell growth. Most of the damage done to his intestines was spectacular; truly a statement to the skill of Wolfe's medical staff for beeing able to keep him alive after such a grisly wound.

In the robot's control room, Dr. Li wiped more sweat off his brow and had another cup of coffee as he watched his machine work. Theoretically, the 'Shaman' as it was called by Kachina Biotech's design bereau, was completely autonomous. Li didn't need to be here overseeing it but Hospital Protocol required it anyway, just to double check that it wasn't doing anything wrong.

On one of the screens was the view from a microcamera showing a manipulator hovering over a stitch holding severed large intestine together. A thin red beam came from the end to cut the fiber apart while clamping the damaged sections together while a second arm came in with a dull yellow beam. In seconds, new tissue was formed between them. One down: several hundred to go...

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"This sort of surgery usually takes a week to fully recover from, even if you feel fine. There is always a risk of the wounds re-opening at this state." He put the datapad away and lightly paced in thought.

"Realistically, simple everyday activity will should have no complications and if you feel any pain in the lesion, a short rest will let your aura patch the damage..." Dr. Li paused. He understood where Kurai was coming from and truly wanted to help him on his path to closure. He didn't spend all night re-opening and fusing his guts back together just to watch his pateint commit suicide and could only imagine the look on his son's face if he found out he rang up a 4000 Lien medical bill on Flagg's behalf only for it to be thrown down the drain like that.

"I still do not feel comfortable clearing you though. Is there an anniversary you want to make, or can you wait until it is fully recovered?"

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"Mind if I see that?" Fritz asked as he took a look at the number on Gretel's scroll. Sure enough it was totally unlabelled but the area code was recognizable as Menagerie with a Sahali extension. Fritz elected to answer.

"I'm sorry, but you must have called the wrong number. The Toymaker is entertaining guests." he spoke in his cold and unfeeling 'business' voice.

"The Gardener would like to confirm her dinner plans with him." Sinahi replied, matching his tone. A far cry from just moments ago when she was speaking with Kurai.

Fritz briefly looked towards Gretel, giving her a thumbs-up. All was good.

"Sorry 'bout that. Gotta double-check everything these days." he playfully grumbled. "Lemme put you on the line with 'Elina'..." he passed the scroll back to Gretel.

"Hey there! I was just calling because 'Eiger' said if he was going to rethink his suicidal thoughts, he'd have to visit his mother's grave. It seemed very important to him so I passed it along. The doctor's checking over him now to make sure he's fit for travel."

(I get the sense that now's a good time for Honara to re-enter the scene?)