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Muraki Kazutaka ([personal profile] letsplaysurgeon) wrote2011-05-26 03:25 am

Case 004 [Voice/Action]

[Due to the recent disclosure from the last experiment, Muraki no longer feels the need to hide his voice--even from the ones who know about him. His tone is warm and casual, as if he didn't realize there isn’t a filter over his post. Or that he was the type of gent who didn't need a filter because he was a good banana, through and through.]

It's difficult not to notice the recent stream of newcomers over the journal system and in the village. Salutations are in order, as you will be staying here for quite some time. And don't be offended if I don't refer to you collectively as "New Feathers." [As it sounds like something a four-year old came up with.] ...But I will welcome you. I'm Muraki Kazutaka, a doctor that has settled into the local clinic. It is always open if you ever need anything. And of course I offer my own services in any way that I can.

[He stops for a moment, and noise can be heard in the background: a sharp metallic click, and then a steady release of breath. He lights a cigarette and proceeds to smoke while he talks.] If this place has anything going for it, it's the variety of medicine that different people bring with them. I've seen practices similar to my own, and some that my colleagues back home would consider crude, if not primitive.

I have to wonder, with this irrefutable evidence of other universes, if perhaps there is a world where medicine has advanced to the level that I had always dreamed of: one that is past sickness and death. [A offhanded chuckle.] Or perhaps that would only cause sickness to evolve the way a mouse finds a way to outsmart the updated mouse trap.

[Despite the nature of his journal entry, Muraki spends very little time at the clinic that day. He leaves after a few hours and goes by the flower shop, picking up a bouquet of light pink roses and brings them back to his apartment. They are arranged with care in a vase next to his bed, on the side that he rarely sleeps on.

He doesn't care much for the heat wave, or the sensation of his clothes sticking to his skin like an envelope. He stays inside until the late evening, when it cools--and it's more likely he'll run into the one he is most interested in seeing. 

Muraki was more of a night owl, anyway.]

[Voice]

[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2011-05-28 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. She's a patron of healing.

[Her tone becomes a bit warmer, though hesitant as she tries to explain herself.]

It seemed appropriate... I thought.

[Voice]

[identity profile] letsplaysurgeon.livejournal.com 2011-05-28 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Understandable. [He nods, regardless of the fact that she can't see it.] A doctor never stops learning, after all. It shouldn't be different in this peculiar rest stop of a world.

How have you adjusted your practice to Luceti, out of curiosity?

[Voice]

[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2011-05-28 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
It's very different here. We have different equipment and facilities that don't really match my world, and the people seem less likely to come to the clinic when they need it.

It would help if we could persuade the Malnosso to leave people there when they return, but...

Also, with the non-human residents, it's become necessary to learn even more.

[Voice]

[identity profile] letsplaysurgeon.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
[A well-mannered chuckle.] Unfortunately that is something that I'm quite familiar with: people being reluctant to see the doctor. I understand that some are afraid to go, but I'm not sure why disease and death in the worst case scenario doesn't frighten them more.

I take it you come from a world of mostly humans, then. So do I. The non-human residents were something I also had to adjust to, since I've only worked on my own species. I've never had the luxury that my grandfather did to take more...special cases.

[He wouldn't normally hint at such things, but it gives him a thrill knowing that said 'special case' could be eavesdropping on his conversation. And not even know that he was the one Muraki was talking about.]

[Voice]

[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Medicine was a very inexact science for a long time. Maybe it's because of that.

[Voice]

[identity profile] letsplaysurgeon.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
Do you think this has changed in the last seventy years?

[Voice]

[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2011-06-01 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
We have a much better understanding than people had years ago.