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[enthunder]

Just doing a check - how many of you can make some kind of portable healing item? Like... a potion or stimulant, or, dunno, a cake, or something that'll heal injuries quickly. Missions are getting pretty dangerous, and with it liking to split the teams up so much, I figure it'd be good to start thinking about back-up plans in case a team's healer is taken out of commission or ends up 'visiting the control coach' during mission week.

[ Like her, for example. ]

Just... gimme an idea of what you can make, and what you'd need for it, I guess. Reply to standard coach, or come and talk to me.

[ She reaches towards the screen, then pauses. ] Oh, right. I've finished writing up my notes of the missions so far, so if you want to come and give 'em a look, get an idea of what you'll be doing in the future, that's fine too.

[ Bwip. ]

[ About ten minutes later, she's back: ] Just repeating something Tidus said - it'd be good to know the same for defensive supplies. Stun grenades, nets, deployable barriers. Magic or whatever else that does the same thing.

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[flatteries]

[ Ouch.

Talk about the only argument that may just be effective on Inigo in this case. He doesn't give a damn about his own body or health, after all, but the idea of other people worrying about him or upset that he's in pain is an idea he Sure Does Not Like.

Clearly he'll just have to make even more of an attempt to hide pain then, right. The obvious conclusion of what Lightning is trying to tell him here!

But instead he just says with a bit of a smile: ]

So does that include you? [ He's.. mostly just trying to make a lighthearted joke to play this seriousness that's driving him into a corner off.. Like haha, Lightning actually not wanting to see him hurt, what a joke, right! Funny!

Instead he just happens to hit the nail straight onto the (tsundere) head. ]

[enthunder]

[ She gives him a long look. Not one of her harsher ones; it's considering, and a little sad, because his joking about it only makes her think that maybe he really isn't used to it.

She leans back, elbow on the table. Playing her cards close isn't gonna help him here, he'll just make excuses, or misunderstand... or, that's what she'd have done. ]

... Yeah, guess it does.

[ But, equally because it's sympathy driving her, she slides the mission notes back, and makes a few more marks. ]

Vulneraries are medicine?

wrap?

[enthunder]

Looking forward to it.

[She hesitates, clearly trying to work out if she should specify that she's looking forward to the announcement and the resource, not the... pet eating... Eh, she gets the idea, probably.]

[enthunder]

Tidus... [ Don't make her Inigo you! ]

[blitzcheer]

Don't.

[ He intakes a breath, lets it out tiredly, ashamed. ]

I just... [ Silence, his features creasing, mouth thinning and his fingers digging into his palms and releasing. ] I can't.

[ What she wants. This discussion. It's already too much, that tiny chide, exposing a vulnerability he wants to turn away from. ]

[flatteries]

[ It's a good thing that she returns so quickly to business. It gives Inigo's brain absolutely no time to linger on her answer. And that.. honestly just would have ended up embarrassing for both of them. He'll instead suddenly remember this answer while he's lying in bed tonight and have a Wild Ride with it then. ]

Uh.. yes. [ Still, there's a slight delay at the sudden whiplash of the subject shift. But Inigo manages to go along with it! ] They're not powerful enough to heal severe wounds, but they can at least make you feel slightly better. And they tend to at least cure small wounds entirely. We do have healing magic where I come from, but not just anyone can use it.