Lessons Learned, by Elleth
Mar. 27th, 2012 12:12 amB2MeM Challenge:
062: Injuries and other Ailments: Black Breath
Format: Drabble
Genre: Mild humor, fluff
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Medical babble
Characters: Estel, Elrond
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Estel has different priorities during an important healing lesson.
"Mildest form: Fear, dispiritedness. Direct Exposure: Loss of consciousness, evil dreams, nxie... I can't read that. Pro...erm... prolonged contact: delirium, progressing uncon...sciousness, unresponsiveness to speech or pain. Hy...hy...pothermia, decreasing bodily functions. Death within days even in the strong-spirited," the boy read. "Called Thúl Vorn. There's something newer in brackets: 'Westron: Black Breath.' Proceeds from servants of Gorthaur the Cruel, first reported upon the Sacking of the Isle of Minas Tirith... Proposed cure: Athëa Aranion. Idhlinn, Master Healer of the House of Finwë, Year of the Sun 457."
Estel looked up from the book, at Elrond. "She had really bad handwriting."
062: Injuries and other Ailments: Black Breath
Format: Drabble
Genre: Mild humor, fluff
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Medical babble
Characters: Estel, Elrond
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Estel has different priorities during an important healing lesson.
"Mildest form: Fear, dispiritedness. Direct Exposure: Loss of consciousness, evil dreams, nxie... I can't read that. Pro...erm... prolonged contact: delirium, progressing uncon...sciousness, unresponsiveness to speech or pain. Hy...hy...pothermia, decreasing bodily functions. Death within days even in the strong-spirited," the boy read. "Called Thúl Vorn. There's something newer in brackets: 'Westron: Black Breath.' Proceeds from servants of Gorthaur the Cruel, first reported upon the Sacking of the Isle of Minas Tirith... Proposed cure: Athëa Aranion. Idhlinn, Master Healer of the House of Finwë, Year of the Sun 457."
Estel looked up from the book, at Elrond. "She had really bad handwriting."
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Date: 2012-03-26 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-26 10:47 pm (UTC)It is the sort of thing kids come out with though: "It's interesting, it's interesting, it's sort of interesting, oh look there's a [insert word]." :p
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Date: 2012-03-26 10:58 pm (UTC)Hmm, I suppose they do that! And he isn't wrong; she has really horrid, spiky handwriting. ;)
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Date: 2012-03-26 11:49 pm (UTC)Neat mind, messy everything else? :p
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Date: 2012-03-26 11:53 pm (UTC)No! Not at all! Neat most everything, horrid writing to compensate for her various OCDs. ;) (And she's very much with River in that icon regarding your comment. Good thing she took those healer vows. XD)
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Date: 2012-03-26 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-26 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-26 11:36 pm (UTC)"...erm..." and he just keeps solidering on--bright kid too and persistent. I love it.
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Date: 2012-03-26 11:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-27 01:08 am (UTC)...In other news, funny drabble! The reader is expecting Estel's stumbles to be those of a child still learning to read, and then we find the handwriting is the real culprit.
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