[Audio | Locked to Sam]

[greater_than_zero]

[Have an audio ping, Sam.  Sorry it's almost 4a.m.  Zero's concept of "organics need a lot of sleep" is still lacking.]

Sam?  You there?  It's Subzero.

Sorry to bother you, but I had a request.

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[video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Usually, no, because it won't be staying there too long a time. When everything's working the way it should---and it's not, like, a ridiculous amount of bleeding making the bruise---the blood that's trapped there will kinda be broken down and reabsorbed. There's places where internal bleeding can cause some serious problems what with the pressure and the swelling, but bruises are generally just minor injuries. Even the worst of the normal ones. I've seen some impressive.

Re: [video]

[greater_than_zero]

I must say, for as small and fragile as organic life seems to be, it's also very resilient. Quite amazing really.

[video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Someday you and I are gonna sit down and have ourselves a talk about scar tissue. And scabbing, too, because for all the scrapes and nicks and---

[She almost says 'shit,' but.]

---stuff it bounces back from, skin is amazing stuff.

Maybe tomorrow? ...today. In liiike...

[give her a moment to squint at the time]

Four and a half hours? I am gonna want coffee and Hiro won't be up that early so we can meet up and talk about giving a shit for science without him hearing about it.

Re: [video]

[greater_than_zero]

[Sheepish grin.] Right, I should let you sleep. I’ll see you then, Sam, thank you.

[video]

[10_20_15_5_50]

No sweat. G'night, Zero.

[And the feed's cut.]

[OOC: on to action?]

[Action!!!]

[greater_than_zero]

[He’d be polite and wait the allotted time before showing up at her door. He’ll let his monkey hop down and ring the doorbell. Such a smart little guy!]

[action from here on out!]

[10_20_15_5_50]

[To Sam's credit, she was almost ready to head out, despite multiple snooze button smackings---a whole ten minutes after rolling out of bed. That's partially due to deciding she might as well wear her pyjamas out, but only partially; aside from dressing, she's got everything done. At the ring, she'll just shuffle over and open the window since that's quicker than going down to the door.]

Hey, g'mornin.

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[greater_than_zero]

Morning. [Have a smile and an offered hand.]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Just a sec.

[She steps away from the window to grab a hoodie off the couch, since the rest of Cybertron seems a little cool so soon after leaving her nice warm bed. Shoes? Forget shoes, she's already climbing over the windowsill---carefully!---and onto that offered hand.]

Sorry. Okay. How're you?

[greater_than_zero]

No need to apologize. And I’m well. Did you get more sleep after I let you go?

[10_20_15_5_50]

Yeah, decent amount. Not quite enough to roll out of bed without groaning, but enough. My sleep schedule's wonky with the time difference, anyway. With Earth's 24 hour days, it'd be like... bed at eleven or midnight, up around seven, sometimes sleep in another hour or two. Here, napping's necessary.

And oh yeah, on the topic of time? If nobody else filled you in on equivalent time stuff, one vorn is about eighty-three Earth years.

[greater_than_zero]

I do apologize. I know now for the future.

[That makes him pause.] Wow...that’s...hm. [Wow, that is really interesting.] I guess that actually makes sense. All planets would have different light/dark cycles and different lengths of time to circle their star.

[10_20_15_5_50]

Didn't you already? We're cool, we're cool. I ain't even irked.

The tricky bit of business is getting used to the way time's portioned on alien planets. But, now you have a better basis for comparison.

[greater_than_zero]

Oh good. [He's glad she's not irked.]

Heh, I can't imagine. I've never been off Cyberton. Even coming here, this is still Cybertron, it's no change in time for me. You? This is just an additional level of crazy to get used to.

[10_20_15_5_50]

At least I'm used to it now. The first few weeks I'd just say screw it, but to be fair, the first few weeks were all sorts of weird.

I think if you ever get the chance to see Earth, it's going to seem very, very busy with the seasonal stuff. A lot of the same sorta stuff you'll be able to observe at the farm here, but it's not quite the same as a chunk of wilderness with all its assorted stuff doing its own thing.

That said, where did we even leave off last night? Before breaking into another tangent.

[greater_than_zero]

Blood, I believe. And poop, of course.

[10_20_15_5_50]

Right. That. [pft.] I mostly remember. You're actually better off asking around for blood samples than, ah, stool samples, because it's not going to seem as weird---blood tests are pretty common for medical screening stuff, and I'd mentioned blood donations? You're going to have to ask someone else, though. Ditto if you decide you want hair, too.

[greater_than_zero]

Hair, that's the...well, all of organic life is quite soft, but that's the softer stuff on your head, right?

And you did mention no blood samples from you as well, is there a reason you can't donate blood or hair?

[10_20_15_5_50]

Yep. And yeah. [Zero will feel Sam shift her weight as she considers elaborating.] It's kind of personal, though.

[greater_than_zero]

I won’t press if you don’t want to talk about it, but I won’t deny that I’m curious as well.

[He’ll leave it open there for the moment.]

[10_20_15_5_50]

Well...

[Well, what? She weighs it. On one hand, her 'witch' status is no big secret, and if it is, it's Haven's worst-kept, but on the other? Some vulnerabilities can't be corrected, only obscured.]

This is just between you and me, yeah?

[greater_than_zero]

[He nods.] Of course. I’ll not tell your secrets, Sam, and don’t feel you have to tell them to me if you’d rather not.

[10_20_15_5_50]

Well, my secrets I'm gonna sit on a while yet. It's not you so much as anything said's kinda comprimised---we got telepaths and god only knows what else around.

[Since she's exploited the hell out of this, that someone else might also is, really, a reasonable concern.]

[greater_than_zero]

[He nods.] I understand. It’s enough for me to know that blood and hair samples can’t come from you.

[10_20_15_5_50]

We'll get into it one of these days. Meanwhile, I can offer you scab samples if you would want 'em. Most of them would contain some foreign pigments, but 'most' is better than 'all,' yeah?

[Compared to blood and hair, scabs are a low-risk substance---and that's lucky for Sam, because even if scabs were easily exploited, her healing tattoos have left scab flakes all over Haven. If someone really wanted some, they'd find some with time, patience, and a piece of scotch tape.]