A. Rama Raju (
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singillatim2024-03-03 01:06 pm
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Who: A. Rama Raju, Edward Little, Francis Crozier, William Gibson
What: experiencing/dealing with the horrors
When: after the recent Darkwalker attack, around the time of the town meeting, and after one of the aurora nights
Where: one outside the Community Hall, the other on the outskirts
Content Warnings: Ned's fire trauma, little mention of Raju's trauma that I'll CW for on the comment title. If anything else comes up I'll add!
What: experiencing/dealing with the horrors
When: after the recent Darkwalker attack, around the time of the town meeting, and after one of the aurora nights
Where: one outside the Community Hall, the other on the outskirts
Content Warnings: Ned's fire trauma, little mention of Raju's trauma that I'll CW for on the comment title. If anything else comes up I'll add!

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Raju looks away from the nail to Francis' face, not quite embarrassed, but aware that his reasons for never going to the place after it'd been uncovered might not seem as sound aloud. "How are they, the hot springs? Did you try them?"
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He swings the hammer and the nail sinks in easily. "You haven't gone yet?"
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He huffs a laugh at himself as he sets the next nail into place, shaking his head. "Walking out of that cave was bad enough without even going in the water. Going back into the cold again. Didn't want to get too used to being warm. Does it help your joints for long, afterward? Or only while you're still inside?"
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He motions for Raju to hold another nail up and readies the hammer. "And yes, it helps my joints for the rest of the damn day."
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"Does anything else help?" he holds the next nail in place obediently, thoughtlessly following the urge to solve this new problem. "Rice is too dear to use in a hot pack here, but there must be something else. Sand if we could find it, something to tie up in a cloth and put next to the fire until it's warm enough."
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“Fresh meat keeps the scurvy away, vegetables and fresh herbs. That’s what’s best for the joints now, never mind the rest.” Keeping the scurvy at bay will always be his first concern.
Crozier steps back to inspect their work. “You are eating well, are you not?”
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He gives a sheepish half-smile, a shrug. “There’s been plenty of time for gathering herbs,” he says, both because it’s true and because it’s the safest part of the question to answer. “The ones that grow here, anyway. I think I’ve had enough rosehip tea to last me the rest of my life.”
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Crozier sets his hammer down for a moment to look for yet another hole to patch while he has two more good hands to help. “You’ll come to the spring with me, mn?”
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He motions to the next hole and the plank that he's fairly certain will get the job done. "For the cold! And because it's an indulgence, and suffering for the sake of suffering is something I do. Christ, is this what I sound like? I want to kick my own arse."
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Crozier grins and hands him the hammer. “Finish up this patch while I fix us something to eat.” Nothing fancy, of course, some sort of stew with unevenly-chopped root vegetables. The height of Arctic gourmet!
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"Where did those come from?" he asks, once the vegetables come out. "You found them?"
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"You go out looking for those things often?" Raju asks instead, watching from over Francis' shoulder. "How far do you have to go?"
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“The arrowroot was in the brush behind the cabin, not far at all.” He makes a few more choppy cuts and then just outright offers the handle of the knife to Raju. “Here. Do this part for me.”
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“So we might find some the next time we’re out,” Raju says, planning already on trailing along more often as he spends more of the days here. That would be convenient; maybe he’d learn how to spot them without letting on that he needs to know. Then, first round of cutting done, he looks over at Francis, looking proud of himself. “What size do you like them? Smaller?”
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Crozier pulls a pot off a crooked shelf and rinses it in some of the meltwater. "You can help me on my trips out," he adds lightly. "If you can spare a little time for me that is, I know you keep busy. I like to leave things for the others at the Community Center, but my capacity is limited."
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He gives Francis a smile that’s half-trying to spread over his face and half-trying to hold itself back. See the mighty sacrifice Raju will be making, how terrible it will be?
“How much do you find? How often? I thought there was hardly anything growing in this place, nothing but rosehip and the damned trees.”
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“I find a fair amount growing on my walks. I forage a little here and there, mark down what I find and where in my notebook. You just need to know where to look.”
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"Mm, thorough." He finishes rinsing, then scoots all the chopped pieces off the edge of the counter and onto his other hand and pours the little pile onto Francis' palm carefully. "How do you remember where if you find it in the woods? Everything there all looks the same, doesn't it? A rock, a bush. What kind of landmarks do you use?"
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"How's your memory? Any good?"
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Time Skip!
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cw descriptions of animal butchery
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