haha remember this idea lol
I have no idea where I was going with this but here you go
"Um.... hi?"
I looked up to see a girl in her teens, one of the younger ages we allow to join the army. Her headphones and long brown hair reminded me of Ty, but she projected a feeling different to the master parkourist's.
I waved and stood from my chair. "Hello there. Something I could do for you?"
The girl smiled nervously and handed me a small sheet of paper, on which the words "Give to the fiesh" were inscribed upon. I pursed my lips in annoyance and opened the note up.
Hey Q,
That girl right in front of you has an amazing knowledge for diseases and how to treat bone breaks and doctor s*** like that. You know, the kind of stuff you like.
Anyway, you were always complaining about how you want an assistant or something like that, so train her, and don't complain more or I'll execute you by next month.
Also, you'll like her name, ha
See ya fiesh,
Adam
I sighed, then looked up to survey the girl. She was sort of fidgety, and refused to make any kind of contact with me. Normally this would be the time I would make an advanced psychological assessment, but I'll spare you the pain of having to listen to that.
Also, leave it to Sky to not mention her name in the note.
"So...." I started, "I assume you don't know what this paper says?
The girl finally looked me in the eye and shook her head. "The general told me to give the note straight to you."
I raised my eyebrow. "So you're not curious?"
She shrugged. "Maybe a little."
I nodded. "This was a recommendation," I say, waving the paper in the air. "To me, from the general, about you."
"Me?"
"Apparently you're a natural doctor. Adam- the general, I mean, ha- told me to start training you as a medic."
"A medic?" The girl looked confused, and I tried to look like I was confident about this, even though I was actually more nervous than Ian when he volunteered to taste-test his brother's homemade cake (he ended up with food poisoning and had to stay in his room for a week).
"Yes. Now, would you mind telling me your name?"
My new apprentice looked like she was trying not to laugh. "Oh, uh, it's..." She bit her cheek in an attempt not to burst out into giggles. I knew this because Mitch has adorned the same facial expression many times right before something disastrous happened, which normally ended up being a prank of his design.
"Yes?" I prompted.
The teenage woman went redder than my cousin's hair, which earned him he nickname of the Crab, but that's another story. "My name is Fish."
....
Oh.
Either this is a coincidence, or Adam has an even more twisted sense of humor than I thought.
~*something*~
I sighed. "Fish, could you get the gauze?"
She poked her head into the room. "What happe- oh. Yeah, sure thing."
I turned back to Mitch, who was clutching at the tip of his finger in an attempt to make the wound bleed less. "What did you do this time?"
"Tried to chop up some bread I found in the weapons storeroom," he mumbled.
I stared at him. "The same bread that's been in there for three years because we were lazy and never tried to take it out?"
Mitch was silent. I took that as a yes.
I shook my head. At this point he didn't deserve to be healed.
Fish came back with the medical supplies needed to help reattach the top of Mitch's finger to the rest of it. "Okay, so you're gonna need stitches-"
Mitch groaned. "Again?!"
"Last time you needed them, it was for splitting your head open on a tree after being blasted by a creeper," I reminded him, smirking. "Now you need them for trying to chop stale bread."
~*now for Fish's POV*~
"Wha.... what on EARTH did you do, Ki?"
My old friend Ki from one of the Defense squadrons was currently holding a thick napkin to her obviously broken bloody nose, so she couldn't really answer for herself. Luckily my other old friend Claire/Andrea (she goes by either one, don't question it) from the Department of Sorcery was also there. "She, uh.... ran into a wall."
Ki muttered something angrily that sounded like, "Er dinnurt run inter ther werall, Claerr."
Claire chuckled nervously. "Well, first, I may have cast an experimental spell right where she was standing.... it was on accident, I swear."
I-
Wh-
I closed my eyes, took a deep, slow breath, waited five seconds, and exhaled just as slowly. This is normal.
"Oh, Fish, I'll handle it," a second, newer apprentice of Dr. Juneau's offered. I'm pretty sure her name was Nini or something. Yeah, it was Nini. "It's the end of your shift anyway."
"THANK you," I sighed, leaving the medical room despite Claire and Ki's protests. I need a break, girls.
No storyline at all it was just a world- and character-building thing
