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countermeasures) wrote2022-02-13 04:30 pm
countermeasures) wrote2022-02-13 04:30 pmchroma | catchall for vax'ildan
i WILL make a visualosity just not right now
countermeasures) wrote2022-02-13 04:30 pm
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[there's something a little sharp in the way she says that. jiuqing is, overall, a kind person, but the one thing she can't stand for is when the people she cares for are put in danger. if anyone so much as thinks about hurting him "just in case," she'll—
a bubble picks that exact moment to descend upon them from the ceiling, and jiuqing, without really thinking about it, presses a hand to it and infuses it with metallic to make it go away.
it's not the medical bay, but another place of healing that the scene opens up on - daxing's imperial academy of medicine, where the country's best doctors are gathered to serve the members of the imperial court. jiuqing is hard at work gathering medicinal herbs when the time comes for a meal break -
only for her food to be stolen. this doesn't surprise her much; she watches it happen, then accepts the food her maid had set aside for her. lunch passes easily enough, as does the rest of the day.
it's evening, by the time the thieves face consequences for what they did. they call for help and accuse her of having poisoned her own food - and it's the truth, but she doesn't feel bad about it. why should she? they deserve the punishment, and they're all doctors anyway; shouldn't they be able to cure themselves?
but they can't. she says she didn't expect the doctors there to be so useless, but this plan never would have worked if that was true.
she knew very well that they wouldn't be able to cure it themselves, just as she knows that just demanding an apology from the academy administrator won't work - this plan is two-pronged: punish the people who had been bullying her, and leverage their punishment to force an apology out of sir chen by putting his reputation on the line.
it works. he apologizes, and true to her word, she prepares the antidote. but when she's chided for being arrogant, she's not ashamed at all. there are times when it's better to keep your head down and wait, but - this isn't one of them. if the outcome will be the same regardless of whether she fights back or not, then she will always fight back.]