Immersion Yuri

"I take it Korman is out?"

The Xaela stood in the doorframe, trying to keep the blood off the freshly polished mahogany flooring of his associate's 6th story apartment. His red hair was ruffle and stained partially with blood, and he wore torn and battered armour. Head lowered in a combination of pain, shame, and irritation, coming to terms with the realisation he both had to ask Yuriane for help, and that he would be made to clean the blood off of the staircase leading up by the particularly lazy yet vocal Moogle janitor of the building. He looked up to the Raen standing atop a stepladder, her black and magenta bob haircut obscuring most of her face from this angle barring only the dark goggles she wore, alongside her typical ensemble of a plain white shirt and black slacks. She was using the end of her staff to weld a small piece of some kind of metal to her chandelier, it glowed a strange iridescent shade, and once it was in place on the chandelier the rest of the metal framing too erupted into the selfsame glow.

"Yes..." Karvix spoke through gritted teeth, movement agonising as it lead to the eventually request he needed to make. Yuriane hopped down from her stepladder and placed her goggles down on it, grabbing her signature round thick rimmed glasses from a nearby table, and putting them on as she turned to Karvix and the stepladder and goggles disappeared in a puff of smoke. She inspected her comrade closely, lifting his limp arm despite his grunts of protest. Karvix managed a few words out after the pain of Yuriane prodding a strange green growth on his side jolted him a bit, "And Sholza's still in Othard." The Raen nodded and rolled out some tarp for Karvix to walk on into the apartment, then pulled out from behind her makeup table a folding table, setting it up in front of Karvix.

"Strip," she said rather matter of factly, taking Karvix aback "and get on the table." He was about to protest but after a moment of deliberation decided to not, and reluctantly complied, stripping off his armour and clothes and lying on the table. Yuriane lent over the table to inspect Karvix's wounds. He had several claw marks digging keep into his left abdomen, his right arm was broken, there were several bruised patches on his neck, a blue rash had developed on his right cheek, his tail had been almost completely severed, and just under his second left rib a green plantlike substance was growing roots into his side. The Raen let out a heavy sigh and looked tiredly at Karvix.

"What, pray tell," she gestured vaguely as all of him "did this?" Karvix looked away uncomfortable and Yuriane rolled her eyes. "You know I can't do anything unless you tell me, barring healing some of the bone damage" Karvix whispered something under his breath and Yuriane's tail suddenly perked up. "Say again?" she turned to him with a cheeky smirk.

"A dodo." Karvix muttered, shame welling in his face as it grew a vibrant shade of royal purple. Yuriane burst out laughing, her rancorous wails of joy echoing through the walls so that the neighbouring tenants might hear her. Karvix growled at his 'ally', "It was weird okay!" he tried to reason to Yuriane as she had fallen over and was wiping fears from her eyes. He continued despite her cries of laughter "It had some kind of plantkin in it's head!" Yuriane simply continued laughing for a minute before finding her composure, although a smile stayed on her face.

"Right, right..." she managed out through stifled giggles "A parasitic plankin infection, that makes sense." After another few minutes of giggles Yuriane has truly stopped laughing and gotten to work. She ruffled through a bag on the ground and took out a scraping implement, and began digging into the cuts and gashed in Karvix, causing him to wince and whine. "Oh quiet you big baby." The Raen slapped him in the rash causing him even greater pain as she scooped out spores from the wounds. Once she had she held her hand out, and a soft blue energy began to emit from it as the Xaela's wound began to contract and close. Then she got to work on the rash. The started by grabbing a cloth doused in a red liquid pulled from her liquor cabinet, wine Karvix suspected, and dabbing the rash. He felt a searing pain but quickly the rash burned away, although some of the scales fell off his face.

"Oops."

"Oops?!" Karvix spouted in panic, "Oops what!?"

"Uuuuhh..." she lingered for a moment "Nothing don't worry it'll be fine." Karvix did not trust Yuriane's worried expression but decided it was better dealt with later, after he was healed. The Raen moved onto the arm, holding it in place and showering it in a healing glow. Before long it was good as new. Next, the bruises, she poured what looked to be a vial of diluted Hi-Potion onto it and then gathered a few small balls of light in her hands. She massaged the Hi-Potion into his neck with the balls causing him to feel rather choked before the bruises disappeared. She then pushed the Xaela onto his side to inspect his tail.

"Anything you can do-" Karvix's question was immediately cut off as Yuriane sharply and quickly pulled off the remainder of his tail. "My tail!!!" he wailed in pain, tears welling in his eyes. Yuriane gave him another slap, although this time it hurt substantially less, and quickly burned the tail into ash in her hand.

"It'll grow back," she said as she started rummaging through a bag, "don't worry." Karvix had a mind to shout but again, kept his mouth shut. He'll be the laughing stock of the house for a month. Yuriane dug her arm deeper into the bag than should be physically possible given typical constraints of time and space. Karvix's concern grew greater as Yuriane grunted in pain. "Get back here!" she shouted into her bag, diving in and having her legs comically sticking out. Karvix was now paralysed with fear.

"Y-Yuriane... What are you..." The Xaela was genuinely concerned as Yuriane made a commotion inside her spacially impossible bag, before coming to a realisation. The seedkin was the only thing left to heal, and he assumed conventional medicine wouldn't remove it. His mind was grasped with what unspeakable horrors the small Raen might do to him under the guise of 'healing'. His thoughts were cut off by a sound of victory, and Yuriane hopping out of her bag with the head of a large snake gasped firmly in her hand. "Yuriane!?" Karvix's voice shuddered and quaked with fear.

"Don't worry my friend!" Yuriane failed to assure Karvix with the look of snide maliciousness in her eyes “I’m wielding this snake for medicinal purposes!”