Lessoni wrote:“So, Gauss, are you... okay?”
To be honest, Gauss sort of blanked in regards to what Blink said for the most part, only really picking up on the general gist of what he was saying. Her attention was drawn to the tissue paper thin skin on her recently regenerated hand. her father's way of Pavlovian teaching was to indirectly inflict excruciating pain, in this case, her skin hadn't fully been healed, so right now pretty much her entire right arm was screaming to God, as ever nerve ending supposedly covered by the nigh transparent skin was exposed to the open air. If someone shone a UV light on it, they'd see the entire section was either raw or barren down to the sinew. It would grow fully back in patches of healthy tissue and scar tissue, a permanent reminder of how Gauss fucked up today.
having picked back up on the conversation, Blink's concern flattered Gauss, but the lad had absolutely zero power to actually do anything about it, "No, Blink. I'm pretty far from okay, but thanks for the concern."
Almost immediately after Ophi left to get something, and the new face bumbled in, the Russian, asking if she was alright, once again responding in Russian, Gauss addressed the man, "(No, despite all the blood, I'll be fine.)"
Ophi's reveal that she had come back with a box of gingerbread cookies, and not the fucking gun that Gauss had expected, stumped the red head for a moment. It was easy to pick out that Ophiuchia wasn't lying about them being safe for her to eat, since if they were laced with uncooked garlic, Gauss would already be dead, and gingerbread tended to not cook properly if it was laced with powdered nickel. There was a level of both distaste and humor to be found in their... presentation, on one hand it tickled Gauss' self deprecating sense of humor, on the other hand, it was also making light of the same event that killed close to 200 people. Gauss chuckled, "Thank you." a pause, as Gauss remembered exactly why she'd stopped eating baked good after 'The Incident', "Uh, since my blood pressure is at an all time low, and if I try one, it'll probably tank my blood's insulin level and give me a seizure, so."