The lights in the room dim for but a moment as Corrine shifts the group back to the brownstone. She's tired, hungry, cold, scared, and not looking forward to certain conversations, but she takes it as a comfort that at least she's still alive
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He emerges from the kitchen, eating an actual carrot. If Ma Hunkle was watching him, she'd never let up with the rabbit-food jokes.
But it does sound urgent, so he's moving with a quickness toward the voice.
"What?"
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Nope. Corrine's not really feeling the sane right now.
"Uh... bad?" She points in the general direction of Caleb who's been carefully set to bleed all over a chair. She idly thinks what a pity it is-- nice chair.
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He leans around, giving Caleb a grimace. "Lots, probably." He holds out a rather old looking gem on a chain-- the demon's amulet. "Here, this fixes people... I think. Make him not die. I hold no responsibility if that thing self-destructs, though."
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"Tell me how this happened, as thoroughly as you can."
He moves quickly to Caleb to try to find the source of his wounds. He glances at the offering of an 'amulet,' and shakes his head. "I prefer to not to rely on magic unless it's absolutely necessary, young man."
He knows Corrinne peripherally, but he doesn't know the rest of these people, really, but it's not about to stop him from helping out. Carefully moving Caleb to an operating table, the machines in the lab hum to life and start scanning, and he's quickly gathering his internal-bleeding equipment.
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*Under his breath.* “I’m sorry…. I didn’t know…” *He lifts his head up again, and looks back at the doctor.* “How can I help?”
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"You can tell me why Corrine has been giggling maniacally this whole time, and if you can tend to her apparent stab wound, assuming you're an actual medical doctor and not one of demonology..."
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It doesn't really make her feel any better, though, so she turns her attention to a shiny new roll of medical tape. She realizes, with a cracked little smile, that her arm no longer hurts, and she looks up at Caleb. She carefully breaks off a piece of tape and sticks it to his nose. "Not dead."
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