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[islandnation]

[Iceland is somewhere in the new building, albeit annoyed, and there's a couple nasty, oozing cuts on his right arm, which he's clutching with the other. His legs are crossed and he's looking down at the SFC. The puffin is asleep in his lap, and an axe lays next to him.]

...I had a bad feeling about this.

[The fact that they were ghosts rendered

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[osmanlidevleti]

[Ouch, those don't look too good, even for a nation.]

Oy, squirt. Where ya at?

[islandnation]

[Oh look who turned up here in ancient clothes!]

I'm not a 'squirt.'

[He hesitates and speaks reluctantly.] ...The new building.

[osmanlidevleti]

Ya really wanna argue it? Yer centuries younger than me.

[He hums, drumming his fingers against his knee.] Where in it?

[islandnation]

That still doesn't make me a squirt. [He may be grouchy because of his arm, but he knew better than to argue with Turkey of all people.]

....Third floor or so.

[osmanlidevleti]

Denmark wasn't even lookin' after ya when I took ya onto my ships. Ya need t'grow more.

Ya had it looked at yet? [Is that a little concern?]

[islandnation]

[Well, he was part of Denmark-Norway in 1627, but that didn't mean Denmark actually looked after him. He pretty much sucked as a guardian.]

He never did. [Iceland's still a bit sore that the Ottomans made it up there and raided without anyone blinking an eye. With a captured Danish guide no less. ] And I'm growing just fine.

Not yet, it'll scab up and be fine soon enough. [It just kept oozing, but any minute now!]

[osmanlidevleti]

[And the Worst Guardian of the Year award goes to...!]

I'd keep an eye on ya. Wha' 'bout tha' brother of yers? Where was he?

S'a chance it'll get infected, squirt. Get it looked at or m'comin' up there t'clean it up.

[islandnation]

[Precisely why he worked for over a century getting his independence!]

..Sure you would. [The next comment has him glaring at the SFC. Not, ahem, that that hit a nerve or whatever. Not at all.] He was stuck in that stupid union too, y'know! And he's not my brother anyway!

The infection'll go away eventually if it does.. [He actually just didn't want do the finding of someone to look at it. He was over a thousand years old and got scraped up by some ghosts? How embarrassing. The pain was bearable right now anyway.] I wasn't aware you were a doctor, or a respectable guardian either for that matter.

[osmanlidevleti]

Could'a fooled me. [All cheshire grins over here.]

Either that or yer gonna lose tha' arm. [He reclines back against the wall with an audible hiss. He's older that Greece and he was run through by a pirate that showed up in his house, so the score's even.] When ya've been 'round as long as I have ya pick up on some things.

[islandnation]

[Iceland turns a bit pink, but has no response for that.]

...Can we even lose limbs that way? [Funny, this never had come up before. He'd never gotten involved in wars, but... well, Turkey was probably pulling his leg again.]

Right, and just how old are you, anyway? [He winced at the bit of Turkey's bandaged wound he could see. He had considered asking if Turkey'd come to look at his arm, but he wondered how much was hurting the guy to move.]