[log] Off to adult again, with a proper adult

[itsjustanaccount]

Who: Tsukishima and Sam
What: Time to make another trip to town.
Where: Domina
When: Backdated to Day 5, after the Home meeting
Other: None planned

Even after a good few days of everything, everything feels so surreal to Tsukishima. Not a single thing is familiar to him, besides a few faces. His room is so unlike his own, his roommate inhuman, and the world outside is... practically a mystery. He still feels off-balance and out of sorts.

Maybe that's part of the reason why he's volunteered to go with Sam to Domina to show him some of the stores despite his usual attitude towards things back home in Japan. Like knocking a television or game console, hoping that the movement will jumble things back into their place.

Anyway, there's something he wants to ask. So, after he's made sure Yamaguchi knows where he's going and him and Sam are a decent ways from Home on the way to Domina, he looks over to the older man. "Is it alright if I make a request?"

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[itsjustanaccount]

Having Sam turn back to speak with him again has Tsukishima shift into attention. Wraps, burns, basic first aid… He nods. It all sounds easy enough, relatively speaking. With what they’ve been able to see so far, no one in the house will probably run into anything worse than that. You never know, of course… but Tsukishima doesn’t want to think about that right now.

Really, he wants to be hopeful that he’ll never actually have to use any skills like this. Maybe this world will stay the same, sleepy and domestic and strange as ever, and eventually they’ll just manage to find a way back to where they should be. But then… That’s never how it is in all the cartoons and video games. Realistically, Tsukishima knows that something will probably happen, and, when it does, who knows who in their ridiculous tree house will go running straight into danger.

So…. Better safe than sorry.

“Do different wounds require different kind of wraps?” It seems like the kind of thing to ask, especially because Tsukishima isn’t sure himself. What’s the difference between a laceration and a puncture wound when it comes to that, if anything? Well, at least Sam seems to know what he’s doing...

[escapedestiny]

Even if the place does stay sleepy and domestic and... surreal, like a little piece of Eden or with really strange creatures in it, there's still the everyday household accidents that could happen. Especially with people occasionally cooking who have never spent much time cooking before... Sam himself included in that list. And there were a lot of stairs at Home to possibly trip on, too.

Sam gives a nod in response to the question.

"Different parts of the body have to be wrapped differently," (just for anatomy reasons, really) "and there are splints and things if you've got sprains or fractures. And for different wounds, different things you should do before wrapping it, even."

Though it would be hard for him to specify what the different kind of wounds look like and how Tsukishima would be able to tell what's what without a textbook. In Sam's education, it had often just been whatever injury Dean or Dad came back with was the one Sam got to learn about. John had occasionally done little sketches too, showed them stuff in his journal. Thinking of, that would be a nice resource to have. It probably would have been with Dean when Sam had died, though.

He turns back to Mark with the same friendly smile. "Could you add in a few standard bandages and pins to my purchase then, please?"

[itsjustanaccount]

As the shopkeeper goes to add more to the counter along with bandages, Tsukishima huffs out a breath. “It’d be nice if there was even a single book in that whole library about first aid, but I guess that’s asking a little much from a magic study.” The whole thing is strange. Of course, everything about their situation is strange, but that room especially. The part of him that wants to find out how they’re here, how they can get back feels like that has to be some sort of hint.

He just…. Can’t figure out what it means.

Well, that’s a long term problem. For now, he needs to focus on the short term, and that means first aid lessons. “Since it seems like it’d be hard to get first hand practice right away…. Are you any good at drawing?”

[escapedestiny]

Sam crosses his arms and leans against the counter, giving a nod since Tsukishima was coming to the same conclusion he was about their first aid lessons, that it would be easier with a book to work from. Sam himself has been particularly interested in the study, too. He still planned on giving it another look through, medical textbooks or no.

Is he any good at drawing? Well. Yes and no. He wasn't bad at replicating things if he really put his mind to it, working off of an image or a memory... He'd never been that great at pulling things from his own imagination or someone else's and putting it down on paper, though. "I think I know where you're going with that. I might be able to draw some things from memory that could help. Honestly? I wouldn't call myself an artist though," he admits with a laugh.

[itsjustanaccount]

“Even drawing from memory is better than nothing, right?” With everything gathered together on the counter, he starts to pull out the coin pouch from his pocket. “It can’t be helped. Even a little bit of preparation is better than being thrown straight in the deep end.”