Nap Research [OPEN]
Posted Jun 3, 2018 15:30:25 GMT -7
Post by Diana on Jun 3, 2018 15:30:25 GMT -7
With all the excitement in Florence lately, it was hard for her to find time for herself. For the most part she was okay with this, but after awhile punching the people acting against her and Vieri's interests got dull, progress on magic research was slow, and after awhile she just got sick of dealing with people. Today, she decided she was going to hole up in the library and catch up on some of those research papers she wanted to read. It didn't matter if Vieri had stuff for her to do, he could deal with her own problems. Today she just wanted to sit down and read. She would have done it in Florence, but getting internet setup there was proving difficult and was taking way too long, so the academy library would have to do. If anyone looked at her funny or tried to claim her computer she wasn't afraid to fight for dominance.
It was a thread she'd been wanting to follow for awhile now. For the longest time, she just wanted to catch up with the 21st century. Learn everything they figured out, confirm it, see if she could dig deeper in some areas due to her lack of ethical concerns. She still had a long way to go because of the sheer amount of information out there, but she felt like she had a good enough grasp of it all that she could start looking into specifics. That she could start specializing her already specialized knowledge further. That maybe she could finally make some progress in figuring out why her magic couldn't fix Vieri's eye and what she should do to fix it instead. Diana found something to start with at least. It was when she started researching common diseases to see if she could find something that sounded vaguely similar. What she found wasn't similar, but did explain why her magic didn't work: cancer. It was apparently a really big deal in 2018 and more money than she could hope to count was being invested into finding a cure. She doubted he had cancer from how it was described, it was what cancer was did that was interesting to her. It was a result of the body attacking itself more or less. Cells reproducing out of control, causing tumors and other problems. In other words, strengthening the body might actually make this kind of condition worse rather than better since the body was effectively attacking itself.
So, she started looking into diseases like that. Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, anything that seemed even remotely similar. Anything that might give her some insight into how to treat it, whether it be through actual medicine or figuring out which aspect of the body to amplify in order to get it to stop. From there, it looked like enough was known about the eye for potential ocular treatments, so it was just a matter of getting his body to stop, quite literally, hitting itself. Figured that'd be Vieri's problem here. Even his own body couldn't help but get pissed off for no apparent reason.
Thus, Diana sat in her seat without moving all day, reading through academic papers using an academic email she beat out of some professor at a high end school in New York last month. She didn't even get up to eat she was so engrossed in what she was doing. However, her power had a couple of serious downsides. She was pushing her body's limits to the max. Even now she amplified her ability to retain information, process it, and draw conclusions from it. She needed to learn this as quickly as possible and she was more than willing to ignore how much her head hurt because of it. She was more than willing to ignore curfew for it, not that she noticed when 10 PM came and went. She still had several papers left to read and some she wanted to reread. There were about 40 tabs open in her browser and she still felt like she had barely gotten started.
Unfortunately, her body disagreed. It had limits and once that limit was reached it stopped cooperating. Without realizing it, she started dozing off until her face was on the keyboard and the journal on MS that she was reading scrolling up and down depending on where she rolled, preventing the computer from going to sleep. Diana always slept soundly when she slept because of all the abuse she put it through. To keep up with her needed healing because of how careless she was, her body always worked overtime. To keep up with everything she wanted to learn, her brain had to chug through information like she was going through a bootcamp programming course. Sleeping was pretty much the only chance it got to recover from all that, so that her neck was in an awkward position, or that the keys on the keyboard were digging into her face, or that she was even drooling a little bit and it was dripping down between the keys, didn't register to her at all. Any place to sleep was a fine one.
It was a thread she'd been wanting to follow for awhile now. For the longest time, she just wanted to catch up with the 21st century. Learn everything they figured out, confirm it, see if she could dig deeper in some areas due to her lack of ethical concerns. She still had a long way to go because of the sheer amount of information out there, but she felt like she had a good enough grasp of it all that she could start looking into specifics. That she could start specializing her already specialized knowledge further. That maybe she could finally make some progress in figuring out why her magic couldn't fix Vieri's eye and what she should do to fix it instead. Diana found something to start with at least. It was when she started researching common diseases to see if she could find something that sounded vaguely similar. What she found wasn't similar, but did explain why her magic didn't work: cancer. It was apparently a really big deal in 2018 and more money than she could hope to count was being invested into finding a cure. She doubted he had cancer from how it was described, it was what cancer was did that was interesting to her. It was a result of the body attacking itself more or less. Cells reproducing out of control, causing tumors and other problems. In other words, strengthening the body might actually make this kind of condition worse rather than better since the body was effectively attacking itself.
So, she started looking into diseases like that. Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, anything that seemed even remotely similar. Anything that might give her some insight into how to treat it, whether it be through actual medicine or figuring out which aspect of the body to amplify in order to get it to stop. From there, it looked like enough was known about the eye for potential ocular treatments, so it was just a matter of getting his body to stop, quite literally, hitting itself. Figured that'd be Vieri's problem here. Even his own body couldn't help but get pissed off for no apparent reason.
Thus, Diana sat in her seat without moving all day, reading through academic papers using an academic email she beat out of some professor at a high end school in New York last month. She didn't even get up to eat she was so engrossed in what she was doing. However, her power had a couple of serious downsides. She was pushing her body's limits to the max. Even now she amplified her ability to retain information, process it, and draw conclusions from it. She needed to learn this as quickly as possible and she was more than willing to ignore how much her head hurt because of it. She was more than willing to ignore curfew for it, not that she noticed when 10 PM came and went. She still had several papers left to read and some she wanted to reread. There were about 40 tabs open in her browser and she still felt like she had barely gotten started.
Unfortunately, her body disagreed. It had limits and once that limit was reached it stopped cooperating. Without realizing it, she started dozing off until her face was on the keyboard and the journal on MS that she was reading scrolling up and down depending on where she rolled, preventing the computer from going to sleep. Diana always slept soundly when she slept because of all the abuse she put it through. To keep up with her needed healing because of how careless she was, her body always worked overtime. To keep up with everything she wanted to learn, her brain had to chug through information like she was going through a bootcamp programming course. Sleeping was pretty much the only chance it got to recover from all that, so that her neck was in an awkward position, or that the keys on the keyboard were digging into her face, or that she was even drooling a little bit and it was dripping down between the keys, didn't register to her at all. Any place to sleep was a fine one.
