Humanoid Health and First Aid, Wednesday, Period 1

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"Eyeballs," Cristina said. Segues were for losers. "They're fragile balls of goo, but having functioning ones is kind of a big deal in modern society. So what do you do if something happens to your friend's eye?" She held up a stack of handouts and waved to Paris. What? It'd worked last week. "Look these over, and then I'll shock you with some gruesome hologram to patch up."

Awww. The joy of the Danger Shop was fading. Poor Cristina.

"Oh, and it doesn't cover it in there, but I'm not going to assume more than, say, half of you are smart enough to figure it out without saying: if someone's eyeball is falling out, then you also want to call 911 and get them to a real life doctor. And not, like, touch it and try to put it back in yourself. Fragile balls of goo, people!"

She clicked a button with a wave of her hand, and three injured simulations appeared. "You know the drill by now. Go forth and first aid, or whatever. Try not to blind anyone for life."

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Eyeballs

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Eyeballs

Treat some eyeballs

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You've got a teenager who got hit in the eye with a baseball
Another one with a contact lens trying to wander off to the wrong side of their eye
And one clutching the side of their face, a pencil sticking out from between their fingers.
Pair up and go forth and treat!

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She is possibly really actually pondering stabbing someone just to get to do real surgery

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You'd think as someone who can't even put eye drops in her own damn eyes, I wouldn't have put "eye trauma" on my list of planned first aid classes. Wouldn't you.

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Norman Babcock

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Yeah, Norman was pretty okay with this one, too. Maybe a little bit squicked out, as compared to every other week, but...

Look, it was saying something when a class managed to achieve mildly squicked, with Norman.

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Astrid Magnussen

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Sabine Wren

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Sabine was pretty okay with this right up until the part about eyeballs falling out. Why.

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Normally, Astrid would love this sort of thing. Sure, eyeballs were kind of gross, if you thought about it a little too much, but they were also incredibly fascinating. Without those fragile balls of goo, what good was anything she ever did, art-wise, anyway? But she found herself just numbly looking over the materials, not really registering any of it.

It got even worse, though, when she started thinking back to an art exhibit she'd gone to with her mother...a while ago...obviously...that featured work that celebrated eyes or had a strong ocular focus, because now her sight was blurry with the building of tears, tears she now had to focus on keeping back, because there was no way she was letting herself cry about this in the middle of class.

Not if she could help it, anyway, and, truth be told, she wasn't completely sure she could.

Great.

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Astrid was in absolutely no shape to be poking around at someone else's eyeball, whether they were real or not, and yet there she was, standing in front of the worst one, frowning as she scanned the materials for information on how to best get a pencil out of someone's eye.

Look, it seemed to her to be the most likely injury in a weird prison fight situation. And that maybe, if she could figure it out and share that information with her mother, it might be useful to her some day, and Astrid could start on a path to forgiveness. Honestly, she was desperate for whatever points she could cling to, at this point.

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Nell Ingram