A medical robot? That certainly explains the appearance.
And, well, trust is a fundamental aspect of the Hippocratic Oath. Is that hardwired into it in some way?
He's desperately hoping this is the case.
"Okay," Daniel calls back, the thready edge of panic straining his tone. "I'm - I'm coming down. Just, ah," he struggles briefly to find his voice and when he does it's pitched a great deal higher than usual, a clear indication of his escalating terror, "just give me a minute."
He tightens his grip on the bark, a press and squeeze of fingers over the roughness to establish some sense of security, of anchoring, then takes a deep breath intended to be calming. It has, as predicted, the opposite effect.
He lets go.
Fingers slide loosely away from the bark in a tearing of skin across an uneven surface, and he relaxes the grip of his legs on the branch's conical sturdiness until he pitches over and drops, a pale streak against the spectrum of green-browns.
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And, well, trust is a fundamental aspect of the Hippocratic Oath. Is that hardwired into it in some way?
He's desperately hoping this is the case.
"Okay," Daniel calls back, the thready edge of panic straining his tone. "I'm - I'm coming down. Just, ah," he struggles briefly to find his voice and when he does it's pitched a great deal higher than usual, a clear indication of his escalating terror, "just give me a minute."
He tightens his grip on the bark, a press and squeeze of fingers over the roughness to establish some sense of security, of anchoring, then takes a deep breath intended to be calming. It has, as predicted, the opposite effect.
He lets go.
Fingers slide loosely away from the bark in a tearing of skin across an uneven surface, and he relaxes the grip of his legs on the branch's conical sturdiness until he pitches over and drops, a pale streak against the spectrum of green-browns.