Melting Clock: Quarantine

[cityship]

After Sam Henderson's announcement, the Contagion Containment and Treatment lab was going to get busy. Anyone suspected of being affected by the mysterious affliction would be brought here, and put into one of the large bubbles that would keep any potential contagious diseases in - and the patients themselves. Once in inside, they wouldn't be able to get out again until the Medical staff had cleared them.

And before they could do that, they needed to find out what was causing this - and why.

They had a lot of hard work ahead of them.

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[pretty_lethal]

"Guess so," Rachel agreed, shrugging. That had been a weird situation and now that she'd gone past that, and now that she was more rational again, she understood it. At least Sakura seemed to, as well.

"I'm fine," she said. She didn't really want anything (outside of getting outside the bubble), to be honest. "Just kind of bored. I take it no one's really got any answers yet?"

[encourage]

"Nothing concrete. We're still putting together the interviews like the one I had with you to find the common factors. Right now, it's looking like something happened down on XaXing to spark all of this off." It left out the other uncertainties, like if this wasn't from XaXing, if it was ship generated or any of the countless possibilities that had been tossed around thus far. "On the bright side, it doesn't look like it's contagious. If that gets approved by Doctor Henderson, it means we can let people out of the bubbles soon."

[pretty_lethal]

Rachel nodded to that. Fair enough, she guessed-- it was beyond frustrating and she really wished she could do something about it, but she wasn't exactly sure she could (actually she was pretty sure she couldn't).

Of course, the fact that they might get let out soon was much better news. "Great," Rachel said, and meant it-- "I'm about ready to never come back here again. So at least if something awful's going to happen it'll be in my own space." It was a bit casual, yes-- but she was taking it in stride.

[encourage]

Casual to a degree that surprised Sakura -- mostly from this group of people. If maybe she shouldn't, from Rachel, or from Marco. Intensely private people who were sprung into a war at an age they apparently weren't supposed to be sprung into anything. Weird, but only from a shinobi perspective. They had been civilians.

Tragic, really.

"I'll be happy to call off the bubble-living situation. There's a certain amount of invasiveness in this profession as it is. Now it just feels like sanctioned voyeurism."

Precisely because it was. She smiled, if she wasn't amused by it. Not that much. "Who's here for you?"

[pretty_lethal]

Rachel half snorted at that, leaning against her bubble as she looked out at the other girl. "Yeah really," she said. "We don't really need it any more, right? So a bit more privacy would be nice."

She paused for a brief second at the question, though, and her eyes narrowed a little bit. Who was on the ship, for her, she took it to mean-- she didn't really want to get into it. "Not many people from our world on the ship," she said, mostly truthful until she added the qualifier: "You know, Marco and his mom."

[encourage]

Sakura watched Rachel, keeping her thoughts to herself for now. "Just about right," she said, looking back over her shoulder toward the exit out of the wing that held Quarantine. "If you're not contagious, then we don't need to keep you here. We'll be keeping tabs on everyone either way, which is why I ask about who's here for you."

Because there was no point in beating around the bush. "Should you get young enough, it's a tossup between you trusting anyone of our staff enough to stay with them, or in Medical itself, or staying with the people you're familiar with."

[pretty_lethal]

Rachel nodded. "And I'm pretty sure I'm not, or else at least a few other people would have it by now." There'd been a fair bit of physical contact when she was split, after all, so if it were something that simple. Though honestly, she was feeling a bit lightheaded now-- but she doubted it had anything to do with this.

"I'm fine with staying in my home, thanks," she said, a bit bitter. They'd have to make sure what'd been said about Marco's mom was true, though-- Rachel still wasn't sure the woman was free. But she, Marco and Ax were fine on their own.

[encourage]

"Kaya and I would be in there with you, at the very least." Referencing even further back, to when they'd started bringing people in. "So at least that puts one fear to rest, for now."

She accepted Rachel's statement without comment. "Good. One less thing to worry about. As long as you trust the people you're staying with." Sakura kept her tone light. "That's generally important."

[pretty_lethal]

"Yeah, there's that, at least." 'Course, Rachel wasn't feeling great any more, but it was probably nothing, so she kept it to herself.

"It's fine," she said to that. "I'll live."

[encourage]

A slight twitch of Sakura's lips up at that statement. "No doubt about that. You work on it on your end, we'll work on it from ours." A team effort.

Like most things in medicine.

[pretty_lethal]

"Yeah, sure," Rachel says, shrugging a bit and leaning back. But she does appreciate the effort, anyway. "Sounds like a plan to me."