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[guppy_sandhu]

Thank goodness the infirmary is now free of psychopaths.

Guppy looks suitably relieved. And as such, he's sprawled out on a sofa, with his headphones on, a bowl of marshmallows, a hot chocolate, and the Holby Gazette crossword.

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[capture_eternity]

However, after a while, he's disturbed by Dorian Gray turning up in his field of visions, peering at Guppy with something of intention, as if there was a problem.

He waves at Guppy, somewhat awkwardly.

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy pulls out an ear bud, and pauses the wails of Freddie Mercury.

"Dorian? You're... pulling a face."

[capture_eternity]

"There's this presumed drug fiend..." Dorian says, still making that awkwardly sheepish face. "I don't want to disturb you, really..."

[guppy_sandhu]

"...Testicles." Guppy shakes his head and fills in a line of his crossword 'Man's organ'.

"What do you want me to do about him?"

[capture_eternity]

Dorian points, discreetly. "He's on something strange," he says. "Just look at him. He's staring at the observation window and gets aggressive when he can't look at it, and he completely failed to understand what I tell him."

Pause.

"His eyes are weird. Sorry, I don't know how to put it any better."

[guppy_sandhu]

"He's not just confused and new?" Guppy peers over.

[capture_eternity]

"He keeps staring at the window as if he were seeing the most amazing visions," Dorian says. "As if his brain was stuck. And he gets angry and waves around his knife and pistol. Like somebody who's taken cocaine and, I don't know, weird mushroom or ergot or henbane, that kind of spiritualist witch stuff, at the same time? Or a bad reaction to far too much absinthe?"

[guppy_sandhu]

"It is pretty amazing out there. If he's got a knife waving around you need to talk to security."

[capture_eternity]

"I probably need to anyway," Dorian says as he watches the vampire lady approach.

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy peers over the back of the chair.

"Oh we are so not diving in there, we'll get crushed."

He looks around for someone Security-like.

[capture_eternity]

"Oh, fuck," Dorian says, peering at the scene which is escalating at great speed. "Duck! They're none of them human! We must hide!"

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy ducks, looking around for someone they can get.

"Well Eric can hold his own, I don't know about the other two..."

[capture_eternity]

Dorian ducks as well, but soon peers over the back of the sofa.

"Oh shit," he breathes. "Oh shit! He's using silver on the vampires -- that thing is not human!"

He flinches, and then hides again.

"They're breaking their faces -- bloody hell, what am I seeing?"

[intoaman]

"Excuse me? Are you the healer here?" There are scars all over his face, cheeks and throat. They're resent but healing but he's holding a handkerchief to a bleeding cut on his arm.

[guppy_sandhu]

"I'm a doctor." Guppy pulls out his earphones and looks up at the man.

"That looks sore, do you want to come through to the infirmary and we'll sort it out?"

[intoaman]

"Please?" His voice is soft and oddly child-like in his pain. "It won't stop bleeding."

There's a shard of glass caught just inside the cut that he hasn't been able to get out.

[guppy_sandhu]

"It's okay, we'll fix it." Guppy gets up and leads him through.

"I'm Guppy, what's your name?"

[intoaman]

"Diaval." He answers softly, following Guppy. He looks around at everything in the infirmary with owlish curiously, tilting his head back and forth to take it all in.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Are you new?" Guppy asks. "How did you hurt your hand?"

[intoaman]

He nods. New in more ways than one. "The magic here changed my shape into a man while I was flying. I... crashed into a table."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Oh? What shape are you usually?"

Guppy gestures to the nearest bed.

"Hop on there, we'll have a look." He pulls on some gloves.

[intoaman]

Diaval looks around a but before sitting down, trying to be sure it's safe. "I'm a raven. But I thought the fairy queen I serve was the only one who could change me. The magics here are powerful."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Yes, they are." Guppy has a look at his arm. "What did you crash into?"

[intoaman]

"A table." Diaval answers, trying desperately to keep his arm still. The raised scars around his wrists and along the line between the bones of his forearms are raised and tender and he doesn't like to be touched but he knows he must. "There was a glass. I fell on it and it broke."

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy examines it carefully.

"Okay, I'm just going to run the scanner over it, check there's no broken bones or glass. That okay?"