Hey, Do You Know Anything About Crab Bites? [Active/Closed]

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Characters: Daniel Jackson, Kida
Content: After being rescued from the worst three days he's had in Manhatten, Daniel convinces the search party to drop him off at Kida's place as he is reeeally tired of being outside and it's close by. He soon finds out that Kida knows more about healing than just how to use bandages.
Location: Kida's apartment
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[crystalchamber]

It took a little time to get the others to leave. Kida had to assure them that she could find some remedies for him, though she could not understand their talk of a Healer. Yes, the bite wounds were bad, but Daniel would survive this easily with any medic's help, would he not? It finally came down to the idea of letting Daniel get his rest that got them to leave, along with the promise that she would try to find a Healer. Closing the door, she sighed. She knew that the surface world had doctors, but why this group was calling them Healers struck Kida as odd

[geekofthegate]

Ah. Everyone was gone now. Daniel shook himself back to full alertness at the sound of Kida's voice; now wasn't the time to be dozing off. Gritting his teeth, he carefully pushed himself up into a sitting position, leaning at an angle against the back and couch arm. As she tucked the sheet behind his back and arm, he felt awkwardly conscious of the fact that he was probably going to get blood all over her couch soon, especially when they removed the long-dried-on bandages. He'd have to find a way to make it up to her later for going to all this trouble on short notice

[crystalchamber]

Kida noticed a pause at her own request. She cocked her head over Daniel's hesitation and wondered if there was something he was hiding. If Kida had known of the awkwardness he felt, she simply would not have understood it. Her culture was used to men with bare or partially-bare chests and free of the connotations carried with one gender stripping in front of the other. Simply, it did not phase her. "Very well." She pulled the jacket off, but also slid it down the other arm as well so she could have it fully out of the way. With care she made sure the jacket's bloodied areas were on top.

Indeed, the bandages were a mess and half-wrapped over Daniel's shirt so that it too could help with the bleeding. She began to undo the gauze. "I will still need the shirt pulled up. The collar is too high and the wound too long to pull the collar down." It wasn't long before she got to not just damp bandages, but soaked ones. A little blood trickled down his arm, which Kida ineffectually wiped away with the back of her hand.

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Daniel hissed between his teeth reflexively as she pulled the gauze off; some of the blood-soaked parts had dried and stuck to the skin, and as they worked together to get his black undershirt off, he had to bear the discomfort as bits of cloth that had been sunk in by the crab's teeth were tugged loose. But finally, they had both off, and Daniel got a new look at the ugly bite wound

[crystalchamber]

With a thoughtful sigh, Kida examined the bite wound. It was bad, but she'd seen worse. She dipped the cloth into the water and began to wipe away the dried blood and the clots. Her touch was firm, and knowing it would be painful, she placed her other hand on his back to steady him. Wiping everything away worsened the bleeding a little, but Daniel was far from bleeding out and this could potentially still wash away infection.

Kida raised a brow at his words, and she was almost ready to comment on her own ability to heal when he mentioned a familiar name. Cocking her head, she asked, "You know of Sora? And be not afraid, your body is strong, it could heal this." She did not know the boy well, but she intended on meeting him one day. Yet by that statement, could the youth heal wounds as well?

That being said, she still wanted to heal this herself. A wound such as this could still become infected easily and it was pointless letting him be vulnerable to additional parasite attacks.