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spira_rp2017-05-25 06:44 pm
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I have half a mind, it's cracked and breaking
The ragged stump of Ienzo's arm had been a mangled mess. Szayel had carefully trimmed away everything ruined beyond repair, playing conservatively with how much of Ienzo's arm he left behind. He didn't have enough to be useful; all trying to save more of the arm would get anyone would be a higher risk of later complications. In the end, he removed everything left below the shoulder joint, which also gave him enough undamaged skin to cover the amputation wound somewhat tidily. It was still going to be scarred, but at least it wouldn't be twisted and puckered scar tissue on the end of a stump.
The very first thing he'd done, once he'd cut away enough damage to see what he was doing, had been to seal off the blood vessels. Ienzo had lost a lot of blood, and Szayel hadn't needed to get a band around his good arm to know his blood pressure would be dangerously low. Nel had worked on that, feeding drips into his veins and casting curative spells to accelerate his body's own replenishment speed.
Szayel had put aside what he'd removed in a kidney dish, temporarily focused solely on the task at hand. With Lumi hovering over his shoulder, he hadn't expected to get a chance to keep so much sample tissue anyway, but he'd hoped that if he pretended to ignore it then Lumi would also pay it little heed.
Once the obvious wound had been covered Szayel turned to a more detailed examination of Ienzo, a task which required stripping him of most of his clothing. There were parts that seemed as if he'd be bruised and sore, but no other obvious, major injuries seemed apparent, and Szayel couldn't find evidence of any internal injuries that required attending.
Nel carefully applied bandages to Ienzo's arm and up over his shoulder while Szayel cleaned away his things, simply moving them to the back of the infirmary for the time being. He wanted to take the excised tissue and store it, safely, but that would only make things look obvious to his audience. Instead, after moving things out of the way, he returned to Ienzo's bedside, as if he'd only been intending to do that, and gave him a dose of the antidote for the sedatives they'd used.
They needed to see if he was capable of consciousness, after all.
"He's going to need close monitoring," he said, mostly to Nel. "Through the night as well." It might in the least be another chance for him to get his hands on some samples, too.
The very first thing he'd done, once he'd cut away enough damage to see what he was doing, had been to seal off the blood vessels. Ienzo had lost a lot of blood, and Szayel hadn't needed to get a band around his good arm to know his blood pressure would be dangerously low. Nel had worked on that, feeding drips into his veins and casting curative spells to accelerate his body's own replenishment speed.
Szayel had put aside what he'd removed in a kidney dish, temporarily focused solely on the task at hand. With Lumi hovering over his shoulder, he hadn't expected to get a chance to keep so much sample tissue anyway, but he'd hoped that if he pretended to ignore it then Lumi would also pay it little heed.
Once the obvious wound had been covered Szayel turned to a more detailed examination of Ienzo, a task which required stripping him of most of his clothing. There were parts that seemed as if he'd be bruised and sore, but no other obvious, major injuries seemed apparent, and Szayel couldn't find evidence of any internal injuries that required attending.
Nel carefully applied bandages to Ienzo's arm and up over his shoulder while Szayel cleaned away his things, simply moving them to the back of the infirmary for the time being. He wanted to take the excised tissue and store it, safely, but that would only make things look obvious to his audience. Instead, after moving things out of the way, he returned to Ienzo's bedside, as if he'd only been intending to do that, and gave him a dose of the antidote for the sedatives they'd used.
They needed to see if he was capable of consciousness, after all.
"He's going to need close monitoring," he said, mostly to Nel. "Through the night as well." It might in the least be another chance for him to get his hands on some samples, too.
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"Yes, I'd got that impression," he answered. Lumi had, after all, done a spectacular job of standing guard and making it difficult for Szayel to go and store the tissue he'd removed already. "I don't ask much," he said, with a hint of petulance, "just that one of you surrenders a tiny fragment of yourselves so I can study and learn. Surely as a scientist you can appreciate that?" He threw Even a look as he spoke, and then rolled his eyes in apparent defeat.
Well, arguing wasn't going to get him his samples, so Szayel was ready to go for outright lying and subterfuge instead.
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It was only fair, of course. That was the problem, Even would never be allowed to get his hands on Arrancar samples because they were probably considered the property of some laboratory, and the information would be kept, largely, within the group. In addition, it could provide information on how to take them out of commission, or a basis for coming up with a weapon to target them specifically in a way that cut out the need for Hollow-specific weapons like Zanpakuto. He was sure Aizen wouldn't want that.
"Why do you think we would want you to learn about us?" He thought it was stupid that Szayel thought he would get anywhere with that line of complaint.
He hadn't been allowed any part of Lumi, but that didn't matter to Even. Lumi, as far as Even was aware, was apart from them anyway. Any information he could glean from Lumi's samples would provide little intelligence on them as a group. If he happened to get Nobody samples, however... that was rather different and, he expected, the only reason Lumi had bothered standing guard over Ienzo.
He didn't want anything happening that would compromise Marluxia's safety.
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Of course the Ryoka didn't want anyone else to learn about them. They had their secrets and they guarded them well. Not so well, these days. Two of them had ended up on Szayel's examination table already. With a little luck it would only be a matter of time, and with the state of Ienzo, there were going to be many, many opportunities to obtain samples from him over the coming weeks.
Szayel didn't think that what they wanted really mattered, in the end. If they really wanted to stop him trying to obtain samples, they could go to Aizen. Until the instruction came from him to stop, Szayel was going to continue trying.
Even if instruction did some from him to stop, Szayel would probably continue to try anyway.
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Ienzo had almost died, would be missing an arm for the rest of his life, potentially short life, and here was Szayel, propositioning him. Cutting certain bits off would certainly provide samples, Even thought.
He didn't bother to keep the disgust off his face. Szayel was revolting at the best of times, let alone when he was propositioning him. Ugh.