EVE.

❝A story to hear, a face to see, a soul to touch, a light to shed...❞

[EVE. @novicehands]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐍𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄.

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@AdvantagedSaves Bowing her head. She is too kind to Eve! The dress was simply too beautiful to ignore. She had to get it.

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All this dress and no fancy gala to wear it at. . .

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Already can't wait!

If he's confident in their combined bag-carrying abilities, subway works perfect with her.

[* 𝐥𝐞𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 .ᐟ @stalwarterudite]

putting it on his calendar now.

yeah? no bother — he needed to pop out and do his weekly shopping anyway. his motor or the subway?

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@AdvantagedSaves That is VERY true. She's kind of a princess in this gown, and you know what? Seven year old Eve would have loved it!

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The honor is all hers. He is warmly invited to visit from September 24th to the 26th. Festivities go three days long, so any of those he can join!

A wicked grin. She already has the recipe on her phone screen. They might need to pick up some ingredients from the grocery store.

[* 𝐥𝐞𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 .ᐟ @stalwarterudite]

and he's honoured that she'd be willing to share such things with him.

. . .don't threaten him with a good time.

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@paukvolk "100%."

She left the tools on the working table and started sliding off the gloves, lips still curled in her customarily warm smile.

"How does it feel? No more pain?"

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@paukvolk "EDs are fast-paced. You get case after case after case after case. . . Almost don't even notice time passing. And we like it that way. Keeps life interesting. When we clock out and get home, though? Out like a rock." She chuckles, finally pulling back. "All set!"

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@paukvolk "Got today off work? Nice!" She smiled as she undid the sixth and seventh stitches. "After the bustle of a week's work, long weekends are the best way to recharge. Take advantage of it for me, who'll be working 24 hours."

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@Owen_Langley_ Many thanks, sir~

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📸: @/ALLABOUTEVE HAS POSTED ON INSTAGRAM!

out downtown no cap? finally remembered what fresh air smells like!

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@paukvolk - all set." She lifted her gaze to direct an affable look his way. "I know it can't be fun to have to be here. And on a Monday of all days."

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@paukvolk One stitch. Two stitches. Three stitches. . . The cut on his right side followed a more irregular curve. Curious. But every person who came into this ED was entitled to their privacy — particularly now that the injury had already healed.

"Just a few more to go and you'll be -

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@paukvolk Accidental. And almost symmetrical on both sides? Eve knew a diversion of an answer when she heard one. She also knew when someone preferred some silence, so she only nodded, smiling as she finished up removing stitches from the left side and moved on to the right.

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@paukvolk "You got it."

The suture removal itself posed no difficulties. Raise a stitch, saw the scalpel through the knot, watch it come off. Rinse and repeat. After she'd gotten the first two off, she spoke again to pass the time.

"Pretty big cut. How'd you get it?"

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@paukvolk - well placed sutures.

"They certainly look like they've been healing well," she agreed. "Mind if I start on the left side?"

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@paukvolk - only be glad for them.

Eve's gaze flickered to the bruises first. Had those come with the cuts that needed stitches, or were they from an entirely different event? With sterile gloves and a scalpel in hand, she approached him on the stretcher to catch a closer look at the -

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It's super allowed! Chuseok is a communal celebration. She'd love to share some of its foods with him.

. . . Wanna Google how to brew a homemade version?

[* 𝐥𝐞𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 .ᐟ @stalwarterudite]

that’s cool! he’d love to try one sometime, if that’s not like, not allowed or something.

yeah, genuinely. great, now he fuckin’ wants one.

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Oh! They're these amazing rice cakes they make every year. Always between September and October. It's a, uh. A holiday tradition, back in Korea.

No, because why's pumpkin spice latte fire? Nobel Prize for whoever invented it.

[* 𝐥𝐞𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 .ᐟ @stalwarterudite]

hey, that sounds cool. what is it, exactly?

yeah, that’s a vibe. he also loves a good pumpkin spice latte, sue him.

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@paukvolk - field over the table, "May I see where your stitches are?"

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@paukvolk She nodded, affable smile lingering. "Very dilligent. We get a /lot/ of people who forget to do the daily cleaning, and then — come in, come in, take a seat on the stretcher there — it takes longer for the wound to heal."

And as she gathered the materials into the sterile -