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[hands_of_blu]

For all the resources at his disposal at BLU Regional Headquarters, the Medic can't get one very small thing: a place to read undisturbed. Milliways strikes him as preferable to the base. Regardless of the amount of chaos the weird trans-dimensional bar might contain within its walls, it has the advantage of not being a constantly active war zone.

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[cloakitwithplot]

Zexion pauses as he reads the cover.

He looks like he wants to protest its very existence on principal.

[hands_of_blu]

The Medic glances up from a section on things to do with pancreases (it's probably best not to get more specific than that) and lifts an eyebrow. "Is there a problem, mein Herr?"

[cloakitwithplot]

"It's a medical... pop-up book."

What.

The.

Fuck.

His left eye is twitching. Just a bit.

[hands_of_blu]

"Ja," says the Medic, who really isn't getting the problem here. "Vot, you vould razzer I use Gray's Anatomy's Coloring Book? Ze procedures are three-dimensional, zo vhy not ze illustrations?"

[cloakitwithplot]

"Because it's science! It shouldn't be kid friendly!" Says the one who had three doctorates by 13. "That's just absurd! It's an insult to the practice!"

[hands_of_blu]

The Medic looks at him over his glasses and flips to the page on performing Caesarian sections.

"Und zis is kid-friendly how?"

[cloakitwithplot]

"POP. UP. BOOK. It's all... welcoming and colorful- there have to be less juvenile ways of expressing the same thing!"

[hands_of_blu]

"Again," says the Medic, "I refer you to ze Gray's Anatomy Colouring Book. Und I understand ze Japanese haf some ideas about ze use of comic books in medical education also. Personally I vouldn't let a child anyvhere NEAR zis volume. Zey grab things und poke things und tear ze entire central section of ze aorta out vy mistake, und dot's vun expensive book to get repaired."

[cloakitwithplot]

"Children should just be kept away from books until they know how to properly handle them. I don't know how many volumes have been ruined because someone got the bright idea that it was a toddler's chew-toy. Regardless pop-up and coloring books are juvenile. Can't you just find a human test subject?"

[hands_of_blu]

The Medic sighs ruefully. "Don't I vish," he says ruefully, "but not for zis. All my employers vill let me do vith my co-vorkers is trauma surgery und extreme lifesaving measures. No practising my transplantation skills, no reassembling of missing pieces, nossink. Zo I must vork vith zese until such time as circumstances change."