tushanshu | ☁ 002 denying a crisis [video]

[Donnie flicks the video on in the late morning. He's wearing pajamas while a cafe is visible in the background. He frowns.]

Is there a doctor or a therapist here? I'm almost out of my medication and sometimes I see things when I'm not on them and I think it would be better if I could get more. I don't really know where to look to get the same thing I had back home because I don't know a lot about the pills except what they look like and what they're supposed to do and I don't even know if that's true because Dr Thurman could have been lying and it's not like my dad would know. He couldn't even remember her name.

I guess I don't really have to take the same thing. I sleepwalk a lot if I'm not taking them though and I wake up in weird places and that wasn't such a big deal in Middlesex because I knew where everything was and most people knew about my problem so they usually just woke me up and let me go home, but I don't think they'll be that nice about it here because it seems like they don't really like people that aren't Kedan.

[He sighs a little.]

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I'm neither of those things, unfortunately, but I do own a company that dabbles in pharmaceuticals. One of my chemists might be able to cobble something together if we can figure out which sort of pill you were on, exactly?

You have a chemist here?

[He's very impressed by and excited about that.]

Locals, mostly. None as up-to-date or advanced as one from Earth would otherwise be. Unfortunately, Dr. Shearing is no longer among us. But her notes have been quite invaluable, and quite extensive.

Who's Dr. Shearing? [...] But that's cool! I mean, yeah, if you could help me, that would be great. I don't really mind the voices sometimes, but other people think it's weird and I don't really want to get in trouble, you know?

[Arkham Headcase waiting to happen? Sorry, Donnie, he's judgemental as anything.]

Marta Shearing was a young scientist here briefly. She helped lay the foundation for a considerable amount of my work.

Was she hot? [It's hard to tell if he's serious or joking.]

So how should we.. Should I bring you my pills and then maybe you can help me figure out what everything is?

[And Donnie just gets a Look at that statement. Was she hot. Kids these days.]

That would probably work best, yes. I'm at [ping] this location on Mondays and Tuesdays between six and noon.

Cool. Thanks.

Oh, uh.. what's your name?

[Want to just assume that Donnie showed up and gave Bruce two kinds of medication, a placebo he thinks is an anti-schizophrenic and ibuprofen?]

Wayne. Bruce Wayne.

[Cheerful wave.

and sure that works for me!]

Okay.

[Awkward. He waves back, then reaches forward to turn off the console unless Bruce has something to add.]