Another chance - Ranna and Kappei

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

It had been Ranna's hope too.  But at this point it was not going to happen without something unexpected.  Ranna did not want to try to reach out anymore.  It reminded her of the other day.  Kara had accused her of a lack of interest, but that felt like how the other girl considered her.  It had briefly looked like things were improving, but either she misunderstood, or the other girl was too difficult to understand.  Whichever it was no longer mattered.  Kara did not care about her problems.  She made that clear the other day.  She was just some experiment.

She did not care about those rules.  She was not listening much.  At this point she was not even guaranteed to answer questions, unless they were important.  She hoped Kara everything she wanted to today, because she was not likely to come back.

[Nan-Yo]

Kappei had definitely been on to something. Ranna might have been a nice girl, but she was definitely a bit of a spoiled brat. Checking off all the usual boxes, her way of thinking was indeed that of a young girl and not that of a boy. Ranna had been right about Kara not actually caring about her problems, though. The two of them had just met, so she should be happy about even getting this much help.

Stepping out of the elevator as the doors opened again, Kara guided Ranna through a short corridor and into a large chamber.

"You can start undressing. Put your clothes on that rolling cart over there when you're done. I'll prepare the medical tube for you." Kara told Ranna, strolling towards one of several large glass tubes in the large chamber. While the entrance floor of the large building had been all about glass walls and potted plants, this floor level was all iron and bolts. Huge vat tanks of different sizes and large machinery that did who knows what. The place might have been different than other buildings at the academy, but it had its own air of oppression lingering in it. This was a place for magic and science, and it did not care about anyone's feelings.

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

What did it matter at this point?  Might as well let herself be a little lab rat.  Ranna was not thrilled with the random stripping, but the most dangerous reasons not to did not apply here.  She did not expect anything worthwhile to come out of it, just the strange girl indulging in her strange experiments.  Hopefully it would be done quick.

She quickly took everything off and set it where instructed.  She just wanted to get it over enough that she was not especially embarrassed.  Could she feel embarrassed about it with a girl who just did not seem to care about anything?

[Nan-Yo]

"You can keep your underwear and undershirt on, they are normal." Kara murmured, glancing in Ranna's direction as the younger girl got undressed. The school uniform, just like all the clothes that could be bought in the stores at the academy, had all been tailored and sewn with special threads, allowing magic to be woven into them and absorbed. Her underwear and other clothes that Ranna had brought with her too the school had just been normal clothes, bought by her or her mom in the small town where she had been growing up.

"When you are done, just hop up and sit on the rolling cart if you get tired. This is going to take a while." She explained, as she started touching and moving various glowing magical symbols that had appeared in front of the large vat tubes. The idea was that Ranna was going to go inside of one of the large tubes when later, but before that Kara had to prepare it first.

Edited March 26 by Nan-Yo

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

Ranna did the partial undressing as instructed.  Stood there, waiting.  She hoped whatever preparation was still needed was stuff that could not have been done ahead of time.  It was going to be extra annoying if there was unnecessary waiting here.  She was not likely to sit, unless her feet started getting sore, for now she just stood there.  Waited, to see what happened.  She did not look towards the other girl, ask her anything.  She just waited to see what would happen.  Would stand or sit there until instructed otherwise.

[Nan-Yo]

Kara had not been joking when she said that it was going to take awhile. One minute of waiting became two, and two became five when Kara finally spoke again.

"You contracted your ailment when you were seven years old, before you started going to school. Is this correct?" She asked, her sudden question breaking the earlier silence. There was a record of the Rangorn family having consulted their local healer about their child Ranna having contracted an ailment, and this had taken place around a month before the first term of school started.

"This was before you started going to school? So you have been afflicted with the curse for more than half your life?" Kara continued, seeking confirmation from Ranna. These questions weren't random smalltalk but were actually important to the check-up itself.

[SataiRolePlayingGuy]

Ranna just let her thoughts wander, as the time passed.  It took some effort not to think about her current situation though, or what was coming up.  She was still fine standing, it would take longer than that to get uncomfortable.  She was not paying much attention, until the girl’s voice got her attention.

Was she a doctor, or something?  No as someone doing experiments of some sort, it made sense for her to ask something like that.  “…Yes…”. She answered dully.  “Yes.” she answered the second question.  Nothing too awkward yet at least.

[Nan-Yo]

There was another long pause the only sound breaking the silence Ranna and Kara's breathing and the occasional bubbling sound from the multiple vat tanks. Standing there in silence really was a bit monotonous, but Kara was not concerned at all whether Ranna was comfortable or not, she had already told her she could just sit on the rolling cart if she got tired.

Finally after another good five or seven minute had passed, Kara spoke again.

"How does your curse activate?" It was something she had no data on. The fact that Ranna was born male and had a curse that forced him to change sex, was not something that Reiko had been exactly outspoken about. Kara was only aware of what she did know because she had pressed the older sister on information. The rest of the club just had a vague idea and just knew that Ranna had a curse.