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Fifteen Bells: [ACTION/WRITTEN]

[Archie woke up yesterday. How is this new? Well, after getting some fairly critical stab wounds from Grell, he was put on a ventilator and kept under sedation for a few days. The ventilator was exchanged for a less impressive-looking concentrator yesterday and he was taken off sedation. He spent yesterday sleeping anyway, since anesthesia doesn't generally leave you bright-eyed immediately afterward.

This morning, he is talking and eating Jell-o, which is a new experience. The most important bit comes written on the journal network in wobbly handwriting courtesy of the heart monitor clipped on his finger.]

I have been informed that I may have visitors. I'd like to know everyone is all right.

Kennedy

[Anyone who comes in will find him looking predictably weak and pale but lucid and in good spirits, or possibly catnapping after a dose of painkillers.

OOC: Purely for the sake of mercy, Archie is unaffected by the event.]

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[Raine stops in a little later after seeing the message, knocking at the door.]

I hope you haven't been overwhelmed by visits today.

[His eyes open--he's a bit groggy, but awake.] Not overwhelmed. I just had a lovely sleep. [A bit of a stretch.] Hello, Miss Raine.

That's good to hear. It seems like you've given a few people quite the scare.

Oh, goodness. Does the whole town know?

Of the circumstances? I highly doubt it.

That I was hurt.

[Circumstances be damned, this is embarrassing enough.]

Depends on who was paying attention at the time of the announcement, I suppose. I've only spoken to Doctor McCoy about it.

There was an announcement?

Your friend called for help. Are you honestly surprised?

...Oh. Well, I suppose not.

In any case, you as much announced it yourself just earlier. How are you feeling?

I what?

Leaving a note to say you can receive visitors? At the very least, it draws some attention to the fact that something had happened. [But she's teasing, lightly.]

[You see, Raine, the memory of turning on the video of his journal, then laying his hand on it just before passing out? That just came back, and his already-pale face loses a little more color.]

I would have filtered it, but...

[Yeah. Drugs and attachments.]

... It happens. [She frowns a little though, noticing the change in his face.] It's not something to worry about.

I hope to have my right mind back before long.

[He looks tired. Not just physically, either.]

Recuperation can take time... but hopefully you're still on the right path.

Apparently I'm recovering quite well. I'm not sure whether to be proud, since I was asleep the entire week.

It was for the best in that situation. You had a very attentive doctor.

Yes, unfortunately. He's keeping me here another week. I wonder if he can put me to sleep for it, too.

That's something you'll have to take up with him, I'm afraid.

[He hesitates.]

What's the difference, I wonder, between witchcraft and magic? I-I mean...you're not a witch. What you do is...different.

[Sorry, random subject change. His conversation with Giles has him wondering.]

The definition of magic itself varies between worlds, so I know it can get confusing. Magic itself might be thought of as a broad term for explaining... what I suppose would seem inexplicable to others who aren't able to utilize it for themselves. So you'll find a lot of differences in any circumstance where it comes up. So differences in where it comes from, how it's utilized, what it can be used for... even in one to one comparisons you'll find them.

Is there something specific that you wanted to compare? Certain abilities, or what might seem like limitations?

[Yeah, that went way over the head of a drugged navy boy.]

Erm. Just...where does it come from?

[She realizes that in his condition, a lot of this isn't going to stick. But maybe enough will for a later conversation.]

Where I'm from, there's an energy that sustains the world, known as mana. The existence of elemental magic comes from there.

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