Backwater. Hormah's Human Safe House. After Vik's Nap.

[no_i_dun_wanna]

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In a small, but comfortable living room the noonday light filters gently through a curtain of pale gold hand knitted lace. There are muted sounds from outside as people occasionally walk past chatting with friends or family, and even fainter sounds from the now very busy Question Square. The furniture in the room is simple, but good, and there aren't any knickknacks, only a couple house plants and a blue crochet panel against one wall that has the alphabet on it and a verse of scripture.

The room is very quiet, the only living things in it being a sleeping elderly human woman in the softly vibrating armchair and a tiny green being of living gemstone hunkered on the nearby couch back to watch the sleeper. But the aroma of something rich cooking that is drifting in from the slightly open hall door attests to the fact that someone else is somewhere in the house.

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[spiderlillie]

Vik closes her eyes and breathes a barely audible "thank you" as the warmth begins to unknot her neck a bit. "Yah, I think either Aoife or a Cybertronian, ..oh! Nightwish I think said something about it.. but I'm not sure now which of the two mentioned it."

Vik begins to shift her shoulder because it's feeling uncomfortably caught, but it pops loudly on it's own. She winces and tries to relax. "Thank you, my neck was really bugging me."

Vik's eyes open a little wider, "Wait, why? The antiviolence field, I mean."

[random_xtras]

The chiropractor moves her hands to Vik's shoulder.

"Because," she says softly, plainly intent on being calming as she works. "You can play it against things in your own body that hurt you."

[spiderlillie]

Vik's mind goes into overdrive upon hearing that! Her eyes widen, then narrow as she concentrates on the possibilities, turning them over in her head.

"Play it against.. the stuff in my body that's hurting me?" She says slowly, mulling it over, but not quite able to grasp it.

Vik closes her eyes, trying to calm her mind, and hopefully her pain-tensed body as well.

"Doctor, that is one very intriguing notion. Please help me understand what to do. And possibly *how* it works. I try to ignore pains, but that's not possible. The pain hijacks and fogs my mind some days, exhausts me."

Vik sighs and abandons the mental grappling for now. All she wants is to at least be *less* painful. A total lack of all pain is an idea thats just too big to get her head around at the moment.

[random_xtras]

"Well, it can't cure you completely, but if you tell the hurting things that you don't want to be hurt, the AV field should be able to lessen the effects. It worked for Aoife, from what I hear. When she came here at first she had a bomb go off in her head, and the AV field kept her alive til someone could help her. And it's working for a couple other patients of mine. Of course, if God is willing, I could also use a wish to permanently take down some of the damage." Dr. Octavia moves her hands to the knot between Vik's shoulders.

[spiderlillie]

Vik winces unintentionally as Dr. Octavia works on her kinks. "Oops, sorry. That's a tender one I guess. Didn't mean to flinch."

She thinks over what the Doctor's said. It seems reasonable. But when should she go about this all?

Looking over to Dr. Octavia, she softly speaks, "I am game. When should I address these things...? I mean, do I just say it, like talking to you? Or.. I guess I'm feeling out of my element on this one."

She sighs as some of the tightness begins to ease. "Oh thank you. That place has been torture lately, it's trying to let loose I think. As for the other; I'm not sure how the wishes work, but I know God does. So do as you think is best Doctor, please."

[random_xtras]

"You don't need to apologize." The warm hands gently cover that knot. "And you're already addressing the things. My warm hands can help, but the way you're responding lets the Anti Violence field work to protect you from the pain and damage."

Then she absently tosses her hair back without moving her hands over the spinal kink. "As well as the wish, I'd like to offer you a helper. What do you think of ten to twelve year old girls, or girls that are cats?"

[spiderlillie]

Vik thinks on the helpers a bit, then decides.

"I like the idea of girls that are cats I think. I've never seen any beings like that before.. well, in my video games I have. Would that be alright?"

Vik mulls over the other prospect a moment. She'd made up her mind, not sure if she was going to go about things the way Dr. Octavia intended, but Vik was tired of being a walking ouch.

"Well, anti-violence field, my nerves and joints are hurting me, and have been a long time. Make 'em stop!"

[random_xtras]

The warm hands move from Vik's back, and there's the sound of a rustle. "Wish," says Dr. Octavia softly.

The Wish

[spiderlillie]

Vik speaks with a soft determination, eyes closed in reverence to her Lord, "I want to be the way God wants me to be. I wish for God's will and design for my body and health. His will is perfect."

Re: The Wish

[random_xtras]

Dr. Octavia smiles as she hears the cobalt blue sparkles start up, then blinks as a rush of air is followed by a thud outside in the street. Bewildered, she puts out her hands and staggers forward slightly as they don't find the expected Vik back. Instead, she winds up leaning on her chiropractor table, her fingers curling in the empty fabric of Vik's vest. Her sightless eyes go wide with confusion and surprise.

"What...?"