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[mintjulep]

I hope y'all have at least brushed your goddamn teeth.

((ooc: Feel free to run into him!))

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[mintjulep]

[ No, not at all. And he's a doctor -- he has to make sure she doesn't get hurt.

Wait.

...

Shit, pulling away now. ]

Oh god--

[deadly_legacy]

[Oh, right, breathing. This is good too and you are...?]

Ah, hi. [And she's just going to slowly bring her arms back down to her sides.]

[mintjulep]

Hi. [ Just. Going to clear his throat again. Ahem. ]

... This is some curse.

[deadly_legacy]

[That makes her smile.] I know. It's the mistletoe curse. I think it happens every year. It's my third time.

[Pause and then a slight rush of words.] With the curse. [Not kissing someone or even kissing a stranger as it turns out.]

[mintjulep]

Every year? [ Ugh. Please let him not be here long enough to experience it again. ]

Uh-- Yeah, I figured. [ Awkward pause. ] ... Leonard McCoy.

[deadly_legacy]

[She nods.] In December. I suppose it's a City tradition.

Euphemia li Britannia. [Smiling.] But everyone I kiss can call me Euphie.

[mintjulep]

I think it's a tradition I could do without.

[ There's a slight chuckle despite himself. ] It's a pleasure to meet you.

[deadly_legacy]

Trust me, it's one of the better ones. [She smiles, but no, really, it's one of the better ones.]

It's nice to meet you too. Have you been here long, Leonard?

(OOC: It's so weird having her call him Leonard. heh.)

[mintjulep]

Hopefully no one's sick. [ Please let no one be sick. ]

A little over a week, so no.

((ooc: sob ikr.))

[deadly_legacy]

I suppose that would make sense to follow it with a tradition of everyone getting the same cold. [She can tease because she's not thinking of any horrible transmittable diseases.]

Oh! Is this your first curse then? I know we have them frequently, but sometimes you aren't affected right away.

[mintjulep]

[ He just makes a face. Even in his time, they still haven't cured the common cold. ]

Second. The first one was all that Christmas music -- the day I arrived, actually.

[deadly_legacy]

Oh, that one was festive. [She smiles and then it fades a little.] Maybe a little consuming. And a little hard to sleep during though I suppose I like it better than ticking sounds.

[mintjulep]

It was confusing to arrive to, I'll give it that.

[ Urgh, don't remind him of the ticking sounds. ]

[deadly_legacy]

I can only imagine. Welcome to the City, have a Christmas song. Does your world have Christmas? That would have to make it even stranger if it didn't.

[mintjulep]

It does, though it's not celebrated as widely. [ Different planets, for one thing, and a lot of religion has fallen by the wayside. ]

[deadly_legacy]

Yes, my world is something like that too. [Different history. Christianity never had the same sort of rise.] I've learned more about it here. The traditions are nice though.

Is anyone else from your home here? [Always looking after new arrivals.]

[mintjulep]

They're not bad. This one in particular has never been a favorite of mine, though.

[ Oh. That question. He hates that question. ] Not that I know of.

[deadly_legacy]

No? That's too bad. You seemed very good at it. [Yeah, she just said that.]

But I'm sorry to hear that. Have you been able to find somewhere to stay and work? [And a smile as she pauses for breath.] Ah, I don't mean to be intrusive. I work at the Welcome Center.

[mintjulep]

[ Clearing his throat. Wow. Awkward. ] I used to be married. I've had practice.

[ OH HURRAY MOVING ON-- ] I'm in training at the hospital. [ Eyeroll. ] I'm a good two centuries ahead of the technology they have, so I've got to learn how to use archaic medical tools.

[deadly_legacy]

[Used to be?]

Two centuries? Oh my. My own world is a little advanced compared to much of what is here, but that must be a startling difference.

[mintjulep]

It's not fun. [ Not that he's opposed to history -- he actually rather like it -- but having to deal with it constantly is kind of a pain in the ass. ]

[deadly_legacy]

It must be frustrating. Especially when you want to help people and feel more limited in what you can do.

[mintjulep]

It is. [ He hates it. He's a damn good doctor, limited tools inside, but he knows he could do more with better ones. ]

[deadly_legacy]

There are skilled people here. Maybe you could collaborate with someone to have some of them constructed if we have the materials and you knew how they worked. I seem to recall Tony Stark building things. [She is all about people working together for the common good here.]

[mintjulep]

I've had a few people want to take a look. I'm not an engineer, though -- I can give the basics, but I don't know about that rest. [ But god, would it be handy. ]