Text/Action // 04 I've Got the Remedy

[scientize]

[The following text has been sent out to absolutely everyone the morning of July twenty-fifth:]

ATTENTION RESIDENTS OF ALIUNDE.The city's medical staff will now be administering an antidote to the poison that has spread throughout the city. Please proceed calmly to the hospital if you have come into any contact with the frogs or someone who has

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[nervetonotkill]

[So, Ed is more often than often annoyed at the location of his apartment. He's still living in that free apartment right next to the damn hospital, yup, and for some reason it tends to annoy the hell out of him. Annoyed by the littlest things? What else is new?

Today is different! Hell, if he had to go through the whole fucking city just to get to the hospital with these effects from the venom, he'd... Probably go insane? Would never get there? Need someone to beat him up and drag him there with force? Something like that. Instead of walking through the whole city, all he needs to do is get out from his apartment (B / 2nd, first floor, brilliant for things like this) and walk to the building right behind it. That's... Not so bad.

What is bad or far worse than just bad bad, is that everyone who happens to be out at the same time with him look like his mother by now. You'd think seeing your mother is nice, right? Errr, well it's far from nice when she's been dead for quite long, he tried to bring her back with his brother and failed miserably causing everything that he's been trying to fix for years. Oh yeah, and that mother? Yeah, they see often. In Ed's nightmares where she mostly reminds him of those mistakes ...Oh, and by the way, he also knows that the whole thing of trying to bring their mother back was doomed to go wrong, because he found out that you can't bring anyone back with alchemy.

Hey, it could be worse. It could be the thing from their floor on the night when they did human transmutation. Which Ed by the way dug away from its grave just to get proof that it really wasn't Trisha...

No, in fact that wouldn't even be worse, that would be mostly just annoying and sad at the same time while seeing everyone else as Trisha Elric is ...Much more than enough to make him curl up on his seat at the hospital while he's waiting for his turn. Hell, didn't look stupid when he was ...shorter, but now...? Maybe. Ed really doesn't care how he looks at the moment while he's keeping his knees close to his face. Whatever, it's better than seeing things he shouldn't be seeing around him. It might even save him from all the potential shock reactions, except he's got a bunch of those after he was bitten by the damn alien.

Now, if only he could do something about the sounds too to avoid hearing anything that might sound like the reason behind his mistakes. Nothing to do about them, he'll just suck it up and endure it.

Oh, he forgot to ask how soon it ...helps. Well, he'd find out soon anyway. So, waiting. He's doing it for once, and it probably feels worse than Winry always feels when she's waiting for the Elric brothers to come back home from the world. For once he's actually glad that they're not here to go through something like seeing dead persons everywhere.]

[scientize]

[Luckily for the young alchemist, the hospital waiting room isn't nearly as packed as it had been during the rest of the morning. Most of the hospital staff are taking a quick coffee break before the next wave of patients arrives, so currently only Naomi and a few of her younger-looking, wide-eyed trainees still in their residency are drifting about.

Considering they only spoke over text and the fact she has seen probably a quarter of the city's population walk through those electric doors in the last few days, it shouldn't be too big of a surprise for Naomi to not know who she is approaching. The pretty doctor just gives Ed a quick look up and down before speaking. Her tone is firm, but professional.]

Here for the cure? [Because of the great magnitude of patients that have been thrust upon them to handle, the hospital isn't doing things quite according to protocol today. There is just too much to be done and not enough workers to do it.]