[002] Doctor's Hours

[waterfell.livejournal.com]

This is a waiting room inside a large hospital, comfortably furnished and provided with a mixture of medical journals and fashion magazines. After a reasonable wait, a bustling nurse calls out the appointments, everyone who arrives. "Doctor Mizuno will see you now."

Inside the doctor's office, bookshelves line every wall, packed with heavy textbooks. Doctor Mizuno, remarkably young for her title (youngest in her world, it's rumored) sits behind the sturdy desk with a quiet, self-satisfied smile. She's wanted to be in this place for so long; the thrill of finally achieving it hasn't worn off even in dreams. It's enough to make her smile in the faces of the people who think she's only here because of her mother's famous name, and go about showing them how wrong they are by her results.

"How are you feeling today?" she asks her patient.

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[auncyenhalig.livejournal.com]

But Aerith still believes in this dream that she is in Midgar, so she just smiles, hoping to be conciliatory. "Come to the church again, and I'll show you it," she says. Her smile turns brighter, amused, recognizing one major flaw in the dream's logic. "How else are we going to pay you?" Her mother couldn't have afforded an appointment with a high-class doctor unless Shinra was involved.

It's a rhetorical question -- she's not so concerned about payment in the first place -- and she doesn't wait for an answer; she's not one to linger in doctor's offices. She leaves the office and the brief dream, remaining safe asleep.