Mends Greatest Challenge

-Mends Greatest Challenge-
(Mends / Tulok)

Mends is considered to be the best doctor in Kalmari. He’s been working there for as long as he could remember. Tending to generations- watching his patients grow and then overseeing their kin. Mends knows just about everyone in Kalmari; knows how to handle them, how to tend to them. It’s a doctor’s job, after all, and Mends takes his job with the utmost seriousness.

“Who’s next on the schedule?” Mends calls out to the nurse after giving his regards to his last patient. She began skimming through several folders before pulling one out of the bunch. She looked at the name written on the tab before handing him the file.

“Tulok Bate.” She says.

And Mends’ heart quivers just a bit.

Tulok.

The hybrid child of Meta and Kesuk. The child whose temperament matches that of a demon beast, and the power of an untamed snowstorm.

“Hm, I see…” He replies.

Tukok has never been the calmest child to handle. Always trying to bite him when he gets too close, or frantically trying to escape when he has to sit still. Besides his mother, Tulok is the only Ice Leo he has tended in his clinic. They’re quite stubborn and forceful when they want to be- a hybrid no less, he’s a very special case that needs extra special care when he visits.

“Doctor, are you ready to see them? The nurse shakes away his thoughts, and he gives a small nod as he heads to his office before meeting them.

“Please take them to the first room on the left. I’ll be there shortly.” He says before leaving.

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When Mends enters, he is greeted by Meta. Tulok is carefully tucked closely in his arms, and the child does not acknowledge his greeting when spoken to. Meta berates his son’s behavior but Mends waves it off. It’s not the first time he’s been given the cold shoulder by him, and it definitely won’t be the last. When Meta places the child on the examination table, Tulok backs up a bit, and keeps his wings tucked closed to his body as if to shield himself from him.

Mends knows this stance well, and he faces Meta before proceeding any further. “Has his biting been controlled?” He asks.

Meta’s attention snaps forward, and the warrior walks closer to his son. “I can hold him down if it helps.“

“So, that’s a no.” He states rather bluntly.

“Ah.....C…..Correct.” He eventually responds.

-End Drabble-

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