entrancelogs | [open] It's strange, the things you remember.

Who: Claire Fraser and you, all of you!
Where: A network post + the clinic, greenhouse, library, and grounds
When: Beginning of August!
Rating: Can't see it being more than a low-grade PG, will change or content warn if needed.
Notes: Brackets or prose, will match!
Summary: Claire is setting out to make sure Wonderland is covered medically.
The Story:

The Clinic ☤

[ As far as Claire is aware based on previous conversations, there is only one person fully available at nearly any time in the clinic. It's not fair to the young woman to carry all of that burden, so as soon as Claire finds it, she begins taking stock of what's there. It's neatly organized at least and has everything she would expect plus more she'll have to become more familiar with. Still, she knows what she's working with now and she finds an empty space that could serve as an office (did it simply appear because it was needed? She can't imagine a clinic simply having an empty room that isn't at least storage) and manages a desk and chair, plus a pen. Then, she sets out to write a list of names, people who have agreed to be of assistance should something happen and they need someone in an emergency. Like 999 for situations when the closets won't readily give what's needed or immediate magical healing is required.

There will be, she assumes, instances when magic won't work altogether, and she hopes there's enough variation to cover all her bases. Still, she writes out:

Mikan
Anders
Regis
Souji
Minato
Josuke
Olivia Moore

All people - excluding herself - who rely on magic, save for Olivia, Mikan and Regis as far as she knows. So, with that, she sends a network message. ]

video;

Hello, Wonderland. I've attached a list of names to this message for people who have volunteered to be emergency contacts should the need for healing arise. However, I would like to see if anyone else would be interested, specifically non-magical healers. As we experienced with the last event, magic isn't always working or at full power, and the closets may not give us the medical supplies we need. If you're interested, please let me know either via return message or by coming to the clinic. I'll be here for a little while today.

Also, anyone interested in learning some home remedies or what to do if someone's injured or ill and there are no medical supplies or magic on hand is free to let me know. I know more than one person has expressed interest already, and honestly, in a place like this, you can never tell what knowledge might come in useful.

Greenhouse/Grounds/Garden ✿

[ She's on a mission now to find out what grows native to Wonderland, what's already growing in the greenhouse, and what she might simply have to ask the closets for. She'll likely start seedlings of things if it feels prudent, but she needs to start somewhere. The last time she'd started this expedition she'd been distracted by a new arrival and now she's back at it with a basket on her arm. In said basket she already has common yarrow, hollyhock, marigolds, and jasmine. Claire's also walking with a notepad and pencil, making notes of things she knows are common (garlic, aloe vera) that she doesn't see. She also has jars that, when she finds fresh spider webs, become the thread's new home. ]

Library ✍

[ Claire tells herself she isn't here to look up the Battle of Culloden. And she's successful for the most part. She's come for specific books, stacking them up on a table nearby once she finds the section she's looking for: anything and everything on continuing medical education, modern medicine, herbal medicine, and medical technology as it has evolved. She's going to learn, she's going to teach herself, and she's determined. She knows there are things she can't possibly perfect without the aid of medical school, but she can at least learn more. And who knows; perhaps a skilled doctor will arrive one day who can show her how to do such things.

She wasn't going to attempt to look up her husband, not with him in Wonderland now.

When she was done she should have left immediately, but instead, she's found herself standing in front of books that could tell her Jamie's exact fate if they're that accurate. He doesn't know, even asking him point blank, and perhaps only a fool would want to find out, but she knows she'd do it anyway, that'd she would try to know if she could. Reaching out, she touches a book titled Culloden, 1746: Battlefield Guide and closes her eyes. She shouldn't, she knows it, and so she stands there, torn, hand on the book, eyes closed and trying to will herself away. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

It feels like that's the case with a lot of medicinal plants. I don't know that much about it, but I've read a few things that make it seem like it would take years to know the difference between the "good" and the "bad."

[ Claire nods in confirmation, bringing a hand to the back of her neck. ]

That's true. Mushrooms are a common problem area, but I don't think we'll have a problem with that, here.

[ A pause. ]

Aside from whatever Wonderland already has growing, and I'm fairly certain we'd consider the effects...mind altering but not quite harmful, by today's standards.

That sounds a little like some of the milder events. [He smiles just a little to show he's joking--it's sometimes hard to tell with him.] Mind altering, but not quite harmful.

[ Claire lets herself chuckle at that, able to find the humor in what he says. ]

Unless Wonderland decides to be particularly cruel, though I haven't had a chance to experience that yet. My hope is that I'm over-preparing myself, but my instinct tells me I may not be in the worst of circumstances.

I don't think you can ever over-prepare here. [He can speak from the perspective of experience on that.] Especially if you try to make the scope of your preparation broad.

[Knowing about herbs and plants will definitely be useful, but even in case they aren't available, other medical knowledge will still be useful.]

That's good advice everyone should accept.

[ She could keep going, but really, those cookies...they're calling to her, so she closes the book for now and moves to the plate, taking another and leaning against the table facing him. ]

Are you a baker as well in your spare time?

Not specifically. [He smiles as he watches her enjoy the cookie.] I cook all kinds of things up in the diner.

[It's where he spends most of his time, in fact.]

Now, that's a place I haven't been before. I honestly didn't even realize there was one. Do you maintain it?

[ She'll have to check it out and take Jamie to experience some classic breakfast foods that aren't porridge and hard bread. ]

[He nods.]

It's up on the eighth floor. It's called the Rabbit Hole. I inherited it, sort of.

I'll make it a point to come see you there, then. Is it standard American fare?

[ The Rabbit Hole. Interesting name, though she assumes as he inherited it, he didn't name it, so she doesn't ask. ]

About half American, half Japanese. I'll try making anything, though, as long as I can find a recipe for it, so I do take requests.

I can say I've never had Japanese food before. I think I'd like a sampling of food from your culture. It has to be better than porridge and hard bread with ale in the mornings.

Even if I tried for porridge and hard bread, I think I'd be better at making the Japanese food.

[He nods to himself, already thinking about what he would make for her to sample.]

Let me know when you want to come up. I'll make a variety for you.

I will, absolutely. I may have to bring my husband if that wouldn't be too much?

[ She doesn't want to overwhelm Souji, and she could always just take a bit back to the room for Jamie. ]

[He shakes his head.]

Of course not. Everyone's welcome and I usually make too much anyway.

Then I'll certainly keep that in mind. For now, I think you and I can meet to go over medical information as often as you'd like. Either here or somewhere you prefer.

[ Claire would hate to keep him, and she's comfortable with him setting his preferred time and day to meet rather than try to make anyone else fit her whims. ]

Alright. It should be easy to figure something out. Thank you again for this.

[He gestures toward the book they'd been looking at, indicating what "this" meant.]

You're very welcome. Thank you for volunteering to help. We know so little of what Wonderland may do at any given time to surprise us, and I appreciate your willingness to help.

We'll be better prepared starting now.

[With another quiet salutation, he takes his leave. He leaves the cookies for her and anyone else who visits.]

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