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Twenty-first Theory [Voice/Action]

[Hi, Luceti library. A giant turtle is rummaging through your card catalog and muttering to himself about how woefully incomplete your filing system is. Then that same giant turtle is conducting a thorough search of your nonfiction section, and changing his complaints to a muted diatribe about how woefully incomplete your research collection is.

Eventually, he gives up, and turns to the one book that's always there for him.]

I'm looking for information about healing magic... can anyone spare a moment to enlighten me?

[Later, the very same giant turtle can be found near the playground, wandering in and out of the area, staring in odd directions and generally acting quite strange.]

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Whatever floats your boat. She doesn't listen to me.

No, no, it's - [Is he really in any position to be giving lessons on this? Oh well, he's going to do it anyway.] You have to listen to her.

And I guess I have to dance around with tree branches and hippie pendants while I'm at it too. [ Will you dare to try and lecture Leonard "BAMF" McCoy again, turtle? ]

It sounds like you have a good idea about learning from that spirit already.

Nobody's mentioned anything like that to me.

[Modest shrug.] It's a mental technique. I've been trained.

Trained, huh?

Focus, concentration, spiritual awareness... It just takes practice.

And you can still do that in this place and even have time to chase after finicky spirits? Good God, man.

No chasing necessary, Doctor. As they say, if you sit quietly, the spirits will come to you.

I have sat quietly and waited for them. [ And filled the time by drinking a lot of bourbon. ]

And no luck? How many times did you try?

... Just the once. My Captain chewed me out for attempting it. Buying into the bullshit, or whatever the hell he said.

Who, Captain Kirk? I thought he was more open-minded than that.

You knew him?

[Um. He'd already been through this with Uhura, but...]

... You're fictional in my world, Doctor. I watch you on television.

... Care to repeat that?

[ He's been here for over a year, but this is the first time someone has fourth-walled him. ]

You and your crew are characters on a scripted television show. It's extremely popular. Everyone knows who you are.

((Sorry, do you mind?))

Right, of course we are. Did you discharge yourself from the clinic?

(( fffff I don't mind at all. ))

[... And suddenly he feels like a naughty child.] Miss Sage said it was all right.

((... Was totally stalking your threads with Jack, btw.))

Are you sure about that? You don't sound so certain.

(( What why they were terrible. ))

I've never been discharged from anything before. I don't know the procedure.

((THEY WERE HILARIOUS and also Don was at the clinic at the same time so he may have overheard some of it IC-ly.))

What, you've never been in a hospital before? [ ... Wait. ] Good kid.

(( ... HAHAHA oh yes, feel free to ridicule him over all that >3 ))

No, but I've frequently been a patient in my own infirmary.

((Don does not ridicule, he gently enlightens.))

Own infirmary, huh. Good God...

(( And that's why we love him. ))

I'm sorry to say we get a lot of use out of it.

((^_^))

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