hadriel | 2.9/ text, locked/ follow your dreams to a place

Kate? Are you all right?

[ This leaving thing sounds a little too permanent. He knows she's really busy right now with some really pressing concerns, but except for that relatively brief space of time when she was gone from Hadriel, Kate has always been the Clinic's guiding light. ]

Can't you just take an official leave of absence, instead of departing?

[ And the word in his mind, departing, causes a chill to run up his back. ]

Fine.

( And she is. This is just something she's been mulling over for a while, pushed to the front by recent events, as well as requests from the gods which have her considering things beyond the fragments. )

Plan on focusing on the Door for now.

( And, like she said, she will help if needed. But the Clinic will be fine without her. )

Guess I'll have to take your word for that. [ Kate's always fine, somehow. Well, most of the time. . . ]

I wish you the best of luck in examining those Door fragments. We all know how important that is!

( She has to be fine. There's too much to be done.

(There's always too much to be done, when you're Kate. She has to find something.) )

Should be interesting.

( Who knows what they'll find out, now they're helping the gods. )

[ They have that in common! They have to be fine, they have to keep moving, and if there were nothing to be done, they would bloody well invent it! One of the reasons they like each other, probably. ]

I'm sure it will be. In fact, I'm sure it will be fascinating. But Kate. . . you be careful, all right? When a person touches those Door fragments, that person is slammed by very powerful emotions, and it doesn't feel simply emotional, it feels like being physically smacked against a wall. You take care with those things. And ask for help if you get slammed.

{{OOC: I'm assuming this thread happens before Kate's thread in the Shard Edition Lab Mingle? But if at this point, she's already learned about the shards the hard way, feel free to have her say so! And sorry about all the edits. }}

Edited 2018-10-29 23:12 (UTC)

( Well, even if studies haven't fully kicked off, she's been around the ones in the lab long enough to know that. )

Noticed that. Sure there's worse to come.

Maybe so.

As I said, you take care, Kate! Even if you're not the Clinic head anymore, you're still invaluable -- to the community, and to your friends.

Edited 2018-11-03 23:17 (UTC)

[well yeah with the Door and all...duh?]

all right then

who's in charge?

( Yep. )

Whoever wants to be.

( Look, she's not appointing someone out of the blue. Y'all are gonna have to come forward. )

[OH BOY well on the one hand he's a captain, but on the other hand he hates people. on the other other hand...there are too many hands here]

I don't but if Lance doesn't want it.

well. I'll talk to him. have fun with the research.

( Look, she was never that fond of dealing with people either. But she does this shit here and at home. )

Let you know if someone says something.

yeah, I'll do the same if I know anything

Alright.

Mind if I ask why?

Want to focus on the Door, now.

( Now that things are falling into place.

And other reasons, ones which aren't hers to say, or are too personal to say. )

And you can't do both?

[after all, George does eight hours at the Clinic, then at least a couple at the Lab]

( Before, probably. But now there's hours at the clinic and the work on the Door (which is, by the by, absolutely exhausting in ways her work at the clinic isn't) and Carlisle's Siphon (also exhausting), continuing to keep her fitness up and...

well. A desire to actually rest once in a while, to find some downtime. )

Not right now.

( And the clinic will find its way through, of that she's sure. )

All right.
But don't whine if I take over the place.
[which she might attempt, should no one else step forward]

( Well, she wasn't just teaching George some of the admin duties for the good of her health. )

That supposed to be a threat?

( Kate your jokes are barely funny when there's actual tone to them, never mind over text. )

[and she's taken to those lessons like a duck to water]

A promise.

[George's jokes don't translate well, either]

( Which... is probably why that actually makes sense to Kate. )

Don't burn down the place.

[who said that dark senses of humor were a bad thing?]

I'll keep the "running through the halls with a lighter" to a minimum.

( Nobody with taste. )

Good. Can always come back if you guys fuck it up.

( But... she actually has faith in everyone left in the clinic. )

Or if the Null come back.
If they do, we're gonna need everyone with even a little bit of experience to pitch in.

[the Null are an ever-present threat in the back of her head]

When*.

( She's certain it'll happen again. )

Right.
When.
Those fuckers.

[she, too, is certain, but she was trying to be optimistic with the "if"]

Have you on the hitlist for that.

( May as well snark about it. )

Yeah, the thin skinned bastards.
All I did was make fun of them.
What were you in for?

[snarking is better than being terrified]

No idea.

( And that's the truth. They had her straight on the list when it came out. She would have never known if not for Ignis telling her. )

Think I was a god sympathiser.

Seriously?

[she found out when Matt Murdock made his network post about it and spent twenty minutes laughing her ass off over it]

Why, cause you don't talk about them sucking 24/7?

Apparently.

( Well. It's a bit more than that, really. She will defend the gods as long as she needs to. They remain the best option right now.

And, more than that, she promised Faith she would. )

Weird.
They really are touchy bastards.
The Null, not the gods.

[for the most part, George doesn't give a fuck about the gods either way]

Gods too.

( But at least they're more sympathetic. )

I wouldn't know, I don't really talk to 'em much.
Never had much reason to.

( That's... a good point. Most of what's known about Hadriel and the gods' stories is, now, something passed from them to newer arrivals, instead of gleaned through a lot of arguing and not seeing eye to eye. )

Suppose there's not as much need, now.

( The place has far more things than it used to, after all. )

[and George kind of figures that talking to the gods would be like talking to a brick wall. short, annoying, and nonproductive]

Nope.
I figure all the questions have been answered.

[George is relatively comfortable, at least]

( Often, yes. )

Or dismissed.

( There's also that option. )

Right.
Should've included that one.

[stupid gods]

Noted.

[He can't say he expected this, but it doesn't really surprise him, either. Kate has her hands in a few pots these days.]

You going to be all right?

( Perhaps, if she's not at the clinic, she can find an hour or two to help the guard in some shape or form. But he's right. She's juggling all sorts of things, and her role at the clinic has felt more and more superfluous when compared to the others. )

Gonna be weird. But feels like it's time.

[ He's noticed Kate's general absence, of course, but as she was still keeping up with what needed to be done he hadn't really asked why she was spending less and less time at the clinic. It wasn't his business. Just made sure to be around even more than he already was, since they were so shorthanded. Which he wasn't sure how to do something about without consulting her to call some kind of meeting... apparently that wouldn't be a thing now.

The words on his screen are tense and a little concerning, so he tries to be gentle in response. ]

I guess you're going to focus on whatever it is you've been busy with lately? Please be safe at it.

Have you chosen someone to take over?

( Kate's never been good at making things sound less than tense, owing to her almost compulsive need to speak in as few words as possible. Anything more than what she said in the main post seems superfluous to her, explaining her work on The Door is pointless in so many ways.

But she supposes she owes this much. )

Not personally. George threatened to.

( It's a joke, and a bad one, really. George wouldn't be the worst person to take over, maybe, but Kate hasn't really said you are my successor in as many words. )

You want to?

George?

[ Maybe that would be fine? She's done paperwork before, and can handle more responsibility than even she thinks. Not the best choice interpersonally, maybe, she can be abrasive and argumentative and angry... hmm... they don't need a Leader the same way the Guard does, so he's debating talking to her about it before giving his unconditional support when the second message comes in.

He blinks at it dumbly for a moment before replying. ]

Me? I guess I've been around a long time... I could keep it running, at least. Handle the workers and supplies. The rest, though, what's the word you used? Administration?

( Well, Kate can't say she's always been the peacekeeper of things in the city, but she's managed. Still, it might be nice for the clinic to get a breath of fresh air and a change of management styles. )

Yes. Keep the guard supplied and informed. Stay on top of staff locations, respond to events when necessary. Organise first aid courses. Things like that.

[ Keep the guard supplied and informed... he'd known Henry much more closely than Nick but the latter seemed easy enough to communicate with. He already personally responds to events, sending out messages to the on-call staff sounds easy enough. He'd like to do more first aid classes, maybe get them more help, was wondering about talking to Kate about that in the first place... that all sounds more than doable.

It's the organization of multiple sites -- do they currently schedule people on all islands? he'd want to if they're all being indicated as places to go for help, but they're definitely too shorthanded to do so right now -- and potentially having to wrangle existing staff that worries him, as he's not a particularly authoritative figure, but.

When his response finally comes, he's fairly confident in it. ]

I can do it. I want to, although I may have to delegate a bit. And should probably ask if anyone has an objection or thinks they're better suited.

( It's tricky, at times. She would have loved to have built dedicated clinic buildings on each island — they'd be useful even when the city was back in one piece — but the scale of a project like that...

Well, it was enough rebuilding the clinic and the guard headquarters after the invasion. Not surprising she never did get around to that particular plan. )

Good. If you need anything, I'm here.

[ Getting materials to build anything at all has always been a struggle of scavenging and bargaining, one that it seems other groups have foregone at the expense of the city at large. Not the best plan, even if they had the labor for such a big project. Fixing up unoccupied spaces on the other islands will have to remain good enough.

Pell thinks about that, if there's anything specific about the job he doesn't already know, at least in the abstract. He knows where their records are. Where the staff schedule is posted, their on call list for emergencies, is familiar with the helpers for supplies and security. After two and a half years, he should know what's done to run the place, but... ]

I'm sure questions will come up along the way. For now I'll just jump in, I think, call a meeting... thank you, Kate. For all your work.

Good luck.

( He's got the right idea. And she doesn't think he'll need luck, because the staff have always been good, but she wishes it anyway.

It's going to be strange, not being there any more. But it's for the best. )

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