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[Even though he still has a long way to go to restore his strength, Law manages to last out the rest of the night without dropping off again. It helps that once or twice something a little too large passed a little too close to their hollowed-out tree, but whatever it was either didn't like fire or wasn't into humans and kept going on past. His haki alerted him in time, but he sat tense until it passed rather than wake Deku. Kid needs his rest, after all.

The gap in the tree must face east, because Law eventually can see a gray line in the distance as light starts to come up behind the hills, and then the approaching dawn getting brighter and brighter. The fire fizzles out about then, and he stretches out a heel to scratch some dirt over it lest the smoke attract attention. With dawn coming, he won't be able to sleep anyway, so he just lets Izuku sleep for as long as he needs. Besides, he's nice and warm.]

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[that gets the softest laugh out of him]

Yeah. It is, isn't it? Should be a fine day for walking.

[he just jinxed it, didn't he?]

[Yeah. Yeah he sure did.

It starts raining about an hour after he says it'll be nice.]

... Maybe we shouldn't comment on the weather...

[man he really was hoping - watching those clouds come in - that it wasn't going to be like that. No such luck.

The first few drops aren't bad but then it looks to really unleash, so Law growls up at the sky for being so inconvenient]

Look for some kind of shelter, I don't feel like being soaked through to the bone.

[do you have any idea how uncomfortable soaking-wet jeans are? Really.]

[Growling at the sky doesn't do much unless he's got some kind of weather control quirk- and even then Izuku's hesitant to say it'll work.

Still, he looks around in an attempt to find something to shield them.]

Ah- I think there's a cave over there!

[Who knows if anything's in it though.]

Let's go!

[he really should sense first, duck in second, but the skies suddenly open up on them so if anything happens, it's Law's fault.

They only need to sit in the mouth of the cave as it is, putting a roof over their head for the time being.]

Bah. We'll wait it out if we can, hopefully it's not an all-day thing.

[weather forecaster he most certainly is not]

[He takes a seat and watches the rain pouring down.]

Hopefully. Walking through that probably means getting a cold- and I'm not sure how far away the capital is.

That's a myth. [he murmurs it as he stretches out his long legs, making sure he's still well inside the cave and not about to get wet.] Viruses cause illness. Though getting wet and chilled will lead to hypothermia which can leave you vulnerable.

[sorry, doctor, can't turn it off]

I'm more concerned that a lasting rain means no fire for us tonight.

[He's quiet as he mentally notes it down and silently wishes he had a notebook to record that in. It's fairly likely he'll remember it anyway.]

Right. With the rain like this, it'll be hard to find anything dry.

[He'll turn to look inside the cave. There's probably not much sign of anything to burn for tinder, but it doesn't hurt to look at least.]

[yep, that's exactly where his mind went. He follows Izuku's gaze, and only then stretches out a short distance with haki. If there's anything sharing the cave, it's not immediately close by, but he also has no way to tell how deep the cave runs without getting up to look.]

We're dry, at least. If it gets cold at night we'll have to rely on body heat.

[for all his caution about it in other situations, if it means survival, damn right there'll be cuddling]

[It does seem to go for a while.

He's not sure how far he wants to go without some sort of light.]

At least we've got each other, right?

[Law's really not that bad once he's gotten to know him. A pirate-doctor is a pretty good ally in the wilderness.]

[light would be good, yes. Another reason to hope there's some dry sticks somewhere.]

Yeah. There's that.

[he doesn't mean to be dismissive but really, the longer they spend time together the more he feels like he's becoming Corazon - older, wiser, protective, and just maybe growing to call this kid a friend. So even if his words are short, his tone is just warm enough.

He pulls over the bag that he agreed to take from their host that morning and opens it to see what kind of supplies they still have, like the flint and their water containers, and comes out with something he didn't remember packing. There's a checked cloth wrapped around something. Huh. Law unwraps it to find...]

...she packed us with bread.

[yay? But also fuck his life, seriously. Of all the things.]

[He peaks over Law's shoulder, most of that is the stuff they took from the village on Wulgrimm's side-]

That was nice of her.

[But wait, he said he didn't want any bread when she offered it last night.]

... Do you not like bread?

No. [quickly and bluntly with a side of I know it's weird shut up] But. If the choice is this or starving...

[deep sigh, sucking it up]

If the rain doesn't stop and this is all we're left with to eat, then so be it.

[It is a weird dislike, but he's not here to judge. Just to worry.]

It's better than nothing, at least.

[He'll look out at the sky.]

I'm no weather forecaster, but it looks pretty heavy.

[Law heaves a big sigh. He's no forecaster either, but he's willing to admit Deku may be right]

I suppose since we've already found this cave, we might as well make it our home for the night. I would have liked to go further today...

[it seems safe enough, at least for the time being, but even he knows that it would be pointless to get up and keep walking if the rain stops shortly before sunset, leaving them out in the open with fewer shelter options. Oh well. Now they have all afternoon to sit and talk.]

It's unfortunate, but at least we're already over the border.

[He'll turn back at Law.]

Did you always want to be a doctor?

[What else is there to talk about in a cave?]

Yeah.

[his tone drops to that sort of wistful tone he's used before, talking about such things. Law draws his legs up and wraps his arms around his knees]

Both of my parents were doctors. I wanted to follow in their footsteps, and they helped me study. I was a bright student, they said.

I haven't run into a lot of surgeons, but you seem skilled... I trust you as a doctor and an ally.

My mom um... She never thought I could be a hero, since I didn't get my quirk when I was young.

It isn't something you tend to notice unless you need surgery. [which brings something to mind, as trust is mentioned] Should you need any treatment for anything, illness or injury, let me know immediately.

Is it the kind of training you must start young? Age isn't always a factor in how someone turns out, in my experiences.

Of course I will.

[It will be very, very obvious if he overuses his quirk.]

It was more like... Since I didn't have a quirk, I didn't really have anything to use to protect myself or fight if I enrolled for the hero departments in high school. And getting a quirk that late is almost unheard of. There aren't any quirkless heroes so... she was understandably worried.

Ah, I see. Whereas, there are plenty of pirates without powers, many of whom are stronger than those with. [still, it sounds a little weird.] What, nobody with martial arts skills or marksmanship is a hero, just for being skilled?

Usually they have a quirk that enhances those skills. Ojiro has a tail that can function like a third arm, kind of? But he specializes in martial arts. And the hero Snipe has the quirk Homing, which allows him to adjust the trajectory of his bullets.

Mm. Useful, I suppose. [given what Deku told him before about the commonality of quirks in the genetic population, maybe there just isn't call for someone with natural strength and skill to make it in that business] What would you have done, had you not discovered a quirk?

I don't know... I was always so focused on becoming a hero, I never thought about anything else. I thought... maybe I'd be the first quirkless hero.

[He leans back on his arms, and looks at the cave ceiling for a moment.]

Maybe I'd go into medicine? Heroes get hurt all the time, and somebody has to be there to put them back together. [He brings his right hand in front of him, proof of just how hurt he gets.]

It would definitely have something to do with heroes.

Medicine...

[WELL THEN]

Do you still want to learn? You won't be a surgeon by age twenty like me, but...

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