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[Professor Marigold Cooper]

Ari wasn't quite sure how it happened, she held her wrist, blotchy and green with pustules pulsing up her forearm. She'd managed to wrap it, but that was about it, she was sure no healer. Apparently this wasn't terribly life threatening since she'd managed to get to St Mungo's quickly enough, and now she sat in the plant poisoning section of the hospital because she needed to get her arm seen to. It was massive, much bigger than the clinic back home. It was kind of interesting to see it all and she looked around as she winced whenever her arm moved. She wasn't entirely sure but she was pretty sure she'd seen a bouncing bulb, but she wasn't a herbologist. She'd just been looking for some good strong wood for runes. She had learned her lesson though, don't go traipsing through the wilds of Obsidian looking for trees and bushes if you didn't know what you were up against. Still, she'd sort of found what she wanted and now all she had to do was wait, and hopefully the wait wouldn't be too long. Her arm hurts!​

 

[Kaelan Borisyuk]

Saying that there was a slow day at Saint Mungo's would be a lie. And Kaelan Borisyuk would smack them into next week because he swore someone said it, and suddenly, there were an influx of people arriving left and right. There were not too many potion and plant related injuries, but soon someone came in needing his assistance. He would not have even known unless one of his coworkers reminded him. He let out a sigh and stood up, his Saint Mungo's robes barely fitting around his broad shoulders. He walked in the room that the patient was in, and his green eyes immediately looked at the arm. Oof, that looked painful. At least this section was made to accommodate for someone like him - extremely tall and whatnot. "Good thing is that you aren't going to lose your arm," Kaelan joked lightly. It was hard to get him into a serious mood, unless he was bothered. Or around Killian because he knew that his oldest brother could never take a joke. "What happened?" Kaelan asked, a little more serious this time as he started to look through one of the cabinets for the proper antidote.​

 

[Professor Marigold Cooper]

Ari winced as she moved in the wrong direction and the wrap pulled against the pustules on her arm. She looked up, and up, and up when one of the healers walked up to her. Gods damn the man was a mountain. She knew mountains since she'd grown up surrounded by them. Holy shirt. She shook her head as he got to work, she didn't care who helped her so long as he could stop the throbbing and unseemly pustules from doing whatever they were about to do. "Well, that's good news, then!" she said as he announced she wasn't going to lose her arm. Heavens, imaging losing her arm was a bit of a nightmare, she'd have had a heck of a story to tell her students though. Well, hopefully, since she'd be teaching there soon. "I make runes, ya know, for readings. Was huntin' for some good wood and reckon I stumbled on some bubotuber. One of the pustules burst and, well, ya can imagine the mess!" she lifted her completely useless arm, the throbbing green pustules pulsing between them. "Certainly not a pretty look ey?"​

 

[Kaelan Borisyuk]

Those pustules look like they did a real number on her. Kaelan would have loved to have pranked her and told her that she would be losing an arm and a leg, but this wasn’t the states and their healthcare system. Kaelan heard the right word that he was looking for. Bubutubers. "So, that’s what you came across. I wanted to be sure before I give you the antidote. I’d hate to give you the wrong one and you turn into Poison Ivy." Kaelan got the cream down, which looked hilariously small in his hand. He knelt down so that he could be closer to the woman, and rubbed the cream over the tips of his fingers to start applying it to the green pustules. "This might be really cold, but this should help. But if you are looking for things to make runes, you should definitely wear something to protect your arms and hands with." Kaelan himself had a few mishaps with plants, which was likely why he was working in this sort of department. He knew that no one would want him delivery rooms - except his brother. Kaelan was the only healer that Killian trusted, and he was sure it was because of his brother’s extreme jealousy. "I heard a position opened up at the school for runes, are you going to take it?"​

 

[Zennon Baros]

Zennon ducked his head in to borrow one of the healers on this floor for a consult, noted Borisyuk was busy and moved on.

 

[Professor Marigold Cooper]

Ari didn't know if what the big healer said was true, but she wasn't sure she wanted to test his words either. She was glad he was giving her the right antidote because she would be needing her hands and arms. She watching him go and get the cream, which looked tiny compared to him - heck, how did he move around being so tall? As he knelt down to be more level with her (a truly impossible feet given his great height) she did her best to accomodate him by moving in whatever direction he needed from her to access her arms properly to do this. She shivered when the cold cream touched her skin, and gasped at the pain. It hurt to the touch unfortunately and she could only hope that whatever he was doing right now was going to help her as fast as it could because she wasn't sure what she would do if she had to wait even longer for the pustules to go away. They were agonising on her skin, especially the specific areas they sat, because she couldn't even bend her arms properly without bumping a pustule. "Aw, believe me, I reckon I've learnt me lesson! Ain't no poison plants like this where I'm from!" she said, though it wasn't a whine so much as a soft acknowledgment of her own stupidity. She nodded as he asked her about the position with the school. "Yeh, I am, or I will be! Gonna be a bit of fun, eh?"​

 

[Kaelan Borisyuk]

The antidote would not take long to work at all - just because Kaelan knew who made it. He was talented in this aspect. He knew his way with numbers and all sorts of subjects like that. Within a few minutes, the antidote should really kick in and take the pain away. "Oh? Where are you from?" Kaelan asked as he finished applying the ointment, and stood back up to grab a paper towel to wipe the stuff off of his hands. He did not like how it felt on his hands anyway, and the ointment was spent. At least she was aware of what she had done wrong - though the way she sounded, it was almost like she might have been beating herself down, though he could be reading too much into it. "My older brother works there. He's... Well, you can't miss him. Looks just like me but also appears to have a tree stuck up his a** at all times." Kaelan knew that was one way to describe Killian. He and his girl never failed to really amaze him. Especially now with two kids. Kaelan wanted to be married first before he had kids. "I love ancient runes. I took it in school. But I did favor Arithmancy a little more."​

 

[Professor Marigold Cooper]

If there's one thing Ari can be glad of, it's her high pain tolerance. When you grow up in a place that has lots of kids, you tend to challenge each other to really dumb games, like how can climb that tree fastest, only to have someone push you out of it. Ari has managed to break a couple of bones over the years, though she doesn't recall ever having to deal with something like this. This is pretty new actually. Painful too. "Not far, jus' ova the pond!" She gestures vaguely in the direction of Australia, though she doesn't specifically expect this giant of a man to understand what she means. "I'm Aussie, from the Yolngu peoples of the North," she tells him, but once again doesn't really expect him to understand. Most of the people she comes across don't tend to understand because often even the other Aussie's don't get it. "So should I go for a yarn or...?" She's not sure if he's trying to warn her off or to him. She's never been the sort to be scared of someone just because they're bigger than her, that would be too easy. "Yeah, I get that," she says, looking at the way her arm already looks a lot better than it had when she'd first walked in. “Arithmancy’s all about numbers, yeah? Even for mob that don’t go for divination stuff, numbers feel more... solid, I reckon? Not the word I’m lookin’ for, but somethin’ like that. Ancient Runes, though, feels a bit all over the place compared to that.”​

 

[Kaelan Borisyuk]

Kaelan was not sure which direction she was pointing at, especially since without looking at the sun, he couldn't tell north from south, east from west. When one hiked and spent time outdoors, it was very much recommended to know the basics. Aussie, so from Australia. He had yet to venture over there, but it sounded interesting. The accents alone were hot. "Yolngu people. I'll have to ask my other brother if he has been that way. He spends a lot of his time traveling." Moreso than him. Kaelan did not want to waste funds on things like that when he could be sunbathing on his property. With the sort of work he did, well, his lifestyle took quite a bit of hours to maintain. He chuckled at the mention of yarn. "Oh no, just didn't want you to approach him thinking he was me. He's a little touchy about being confused with the better brother," Kaelan was joking, of course. None of them really liked being confused as another, but none were nearly as serious about it as Killian was. He nodded at the mention of numbers. Kaelan was a numbers guy. "To me, it shows that magic is indeed everywhere. From runes to numbers, not just fancy words and waving a stick around. I hope you get the job. You seem like you'd be a good teacher, as long as you stay out of that forest."​

 

[Professor Marigold Cooper]

"Reckon if he’d ever been there, I’d know ‘bout it, eh? Whole mob’s magic, so no need for him to be hidin’ his size or nothin’. We don’t got a proper school though, it’s all homeschooling out our way," she said, shrugging. She didn't mind it, it was one of the more unique aspects she loved about her culture and though they didn't tend to differentiate between what was considered magical and what wasn't, she also knew there were parts of the world she grew up in they couldn't legally share with those of her cousins who weren't gifted like she was, or her parents. So that was one of the things she thought about often. "If I ever clap eyes on him, I’ll make sure not to go callin’ him by your name by mistake. Feels like I’m learnin’ to be a bit more careful ‘bout everythin’ in me life today, eh? Good lesson, reckon it is," humility in the face of potentially moving to work with a bunch of children was probably a good thing too - so this was one of those things where she was glad that it was working out. She wouldn't know for a bit whether she'd gotten the job or not, but she was sure it would be fine, things tended to have a way of working themselves out after all. "Too right, I agree!" Talking about different forms of magic was a pastime of hers and she was glad to find someone of seemingly like mind. "An' I grew up not usin’ a wand meself too!"​

 

[Kaelan Borisyuk]

Home-schooling... Kaelan could not imagine anything more nightmarish because of the triplet brothers on their own. They argued a fair bit. It was a little chaotic when they were kids. Their adopted father could not handle them very well. Her culture was one that he thought about reading into after this so that he knew more about them if any more became his patients. "I think staying away from dangerous plants will be a better plan, Miss Cooper," Kaelan chuckled, since he knew that Killian would not hurt her if he knew what was good for him. Killian would not risk his career over something so trivial. So he hoped. He might have if he were younger. Kaelan didn't want to think about that time though. "Ah, you are from a wandless culture then! As much as I would love to talk with you more about it, I have to discharge you and get back to work. But if you like, I think we can meet up afterward sometime." Kaelan was a friendly guy, and an opportunity to learn about people, it was too good to pass up. ​