alchemyofneeds | IC CONTACT POST

[It's an understandable viewpoint for someone with a lot of compassion like Roc. Lilith simply has developed the ability to emotionally remove herself almost completely from her work. A necessary tactic for a scientist that worked with living creatures.]

If you'd like. I do not mind.

[She feels that she has nothing to hide. Her ethics are sound, her position defensible. And constructive criticism, should it come, was always welcome.]

But for now, you said you wanted a quest....?

[ she seems pretty satisfied with this answer ]

I would like that, sometime, when I'm free. --And yes, I need a quest and--I also would like to ask another favor, if you have time.

For the quest, I need two students' desks and chairs, like the kind you have in school, two stationery sets with pens and pencils and highlighters, that sort of thing, and also a pair of matching school uniforms, one for a girl about 5 feet, four inches tall, and one for a boy a few inches shorter than that. I'd need the desks and stationery set delivered to the book store in the abandoned village, and the clothes delivered to my room in Takshaka. ...With the boy's uniformed wrapped. How much would something like that cost me?

Hm.

[A few minutes of inward calculation.]

For the stationary sets, bodily samples will suffice: fingernail clippings, saliva, hair trimmings, blood.

The uniforms and furniture you can have now and pay for in the days to come. I will give you an idol in my likeness to install in your dorm; offer up prayers to me while kneeling before it thrice a day for a week.

The cost of deliveries are covered by the above.

[ this seems fairly acceptable to her. weirdly, the saliva and nail clippings are probably the squickiest parts there, and she does make a bit of a face at the words, scrunching her nose up. but... Lilith is a scientist, so the mild discomfort, at least, will surely go to a good purpose. ]

For the bodily samples... how much do you need? Do you have a way for collecting the saliva and blood?

Edited 2015-06-01 01:13 (UTC)

Not very much. Clippings from all ten of your fingers, an inch of hair, and 20ml of blood. I'll draw the last from your arm with a syringe.

For the saliva, you'll spit into a test tube a few times.

Alright. You have a deal. Is it okay to start now, then?

Yes, that would be fine. This way, please.

[INTO THE LAB WE GO. There's arcane books all over the place, opened to some chapter or another. It smells like blood and chemicals despite being very clean.]

[ VERY CURIOUSLY PEERING at all of these things, but still following along. ]

Lilith, have you read all of these?

[Not a few of the books are somehow unreadable, written in a strange language. Some have symbols for letters that glow and rearrange themselves on the page.]

Mm? Ah, yes. But I always double-check my work, so it's more convenient to keep them out like this.

[ the fact that she can't read them just makes them more fascinating though; she'll stare until she gets dizzy and has to stop ]

--These are all for your work?

[ just what are you trying to do, lilith, are you trying to create a whole new world's worth of animals? ]

My ultimate goal is to create an utopia. Therefore, all knowledge is valuable.

[Just throwing that out there.]

Eh? Really? That seems like a massive undertaking!

It is.

[She's getting out three test tubes, a very small plastic container, a syringe, a band-aid, a bottle of disinfectant, a cotton swab, a pair of scissors, and a nail clipper.]

Which donation would you prefer to make first?

I guess we should start with the hardest one.

[ she holds out her arm for the blood donation ]

Hold still, please.

[New gloves poof into existence over her hands. With quick, professional movements, Lilith takes Hiyori's arm to steady it and swabs from wrist to inner elbow with disinfectant.

There's the prick of the needle. Blood fills the syringe to the 20ml mark. Then it's over except for the slight pressure of a gloved thumb over the entry point, to be replaced by a band-aid.]

There.

[ she looked away during the process; she's not normally squeamish, but there's just something unsettling about watching your own blood filling the syringe. Once it's over, though, it's fine to see it. the speed of the process was a bit surprising, though ]

You really are a professional at this.

It would be a problem if I wasn't.

[She empties the syringe's contents into one of the test tubes, stoppering it and tucking it away inside a vest pocket. The nail clipper and plastic container are offered to Roc.]

Would you prefer to collect the hair sample, or shall I?

she reaches out to take both offered items

Oh, I'm sure you don't want to do that. [ that's gross, right? having to clip someone else's nails? at least unless you're a beautician; then it's your job ] I can do it.

[ carefully she trims back each of nails, first on her left hand, then her right, making sure that the clipped ends fall securely into the bag. when she's finished, hands the items over. ]

[Roc pls, she just got done removing organ tissue from deep inside a living creature.

But there's no protest, just calm observation. She takes the clippers, but refuses the container, and now offers the scissors.]

You'll need that for the hair sample.

Oh, right.

[ She takes the scissors and then gathers up her hair. How much is an inch exactly, anyway? Her eyebrows furrow as she tries to figure it out ]

Uhm... does this look about right?

[ she holds the open blades level at an arbitrary length above the ends of her hair. ]

[She reaches out to adjust the position of Roc's hands just a smidgen, lowering the blades slightly. A light, quick, professional movement.]

There. Proceed as you will.

[ veeerrry carefully she will trim the hair into the baggie; she doesn't want it to come out crooked and to therefor have to trim off more to even it off. When she's finished-- ]

There.

[She seals the lid over the container, nodding with satisfaction.]

Thank you. And....here. For the nails and saliva.

[The other two test tubes are handed over, along with the nail clippers.]

Edited (what was i even typing omg) 2015-06-23 14:34 (UTC)

[ eyuuck. okay maybe this is a lot more gross than she thought? she's a little embarrassed to have to spit into the test tube, even if lilith is an impartial scientist, and as she does so she kind of... shields the tube with her hand so that nobody can see her do it. when she's finished, though, and as she turns the vial over, she has a totally unrelated question to ask-- ]

Lilith, do you know how to change your realm?

[She politely looks away!]

Yes, although the extent to which I can change it depends on how much energy I can afford to spend on the endeavor.

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