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As the lynx girl and her caretaker enter the room, 'Doctor' Mycota had just completed a very amusing phone conversation: over repeated requests for her to turn her Bobby McFerrin tape down so the person at the other end could hear her more clearly, they had arranged an appointment with a child who apparently has the DNA of a unicorn. This is a very exciting prospect to her- so much that the words "UNICORN BOY" are written so large on the appointment calendar that they take up an entire week on it. Thankfully, there are several arrows pointed to the exact date and the time is written at least six times so there's less chance of her forgetting than usual.

Her mushroom-shaped head whips around cheerfully as Pi's knocking causes to the door to open completely, and her body follows in an eerily autonomous fashion. Her hand presses the stop button on a beaten tape recorder, stopping the cheerful reggae singer inside at "Don't Worry, Be Ha-".

That wide grin does not change at all as she looks down at Lucia, which might cause her to look menacing to the lynx child. "Ah, hey there. Y'here for a dose of needle-pricks, yeah? Gimme yer name and stuff and we can get it over with." she says, as if the child had arrived fashionably early to a party.

Myxo's grin becomes amused and somewhat lopsided as she sees the the lynx girl have a fit. She has nothing against kids, but she can't help but feel highly amused and triumphant on seeing this. At last, a kid who sees the horrid vaccinations for how they are portrayed on television! Oh, glorious day!

Well, now she better try and calm the kid down so the actual needle-sticking can commence. "Aw, c'mon, needles aren't so bad... would y'rather get stung by a bee, or be stuck in bed with a nasty debilitating disease forever until ya die?" she says gruesomely. "Th'first, you can get right back to playing outside, after, but the second'll mean you might never see outside again. Or whatever else y'like to do, yeah?"

"Now, be a good kiddo and sit up on the bed, will ya, Lucia? I promise it'll be done quicker'n a locust call, and ya won't have to worry about getting really sick after it." the genomancer coaxes, already beginning to prep a needle and syringe.

"I'd demonstrate on myself for ya, but that'd be unprofessional, huh? You'll just have t'take my word for it," Myxo grins. Like she isn't unprofessional enough already.

She does note the child's developed teeth with interest, but is of course not intimidated by the little threat. "Haaah, I'm not scared of you bitin' me. I got skin like a rhino, and there's security cam'ras all over the place, anyways. You'd get in big trouble, kiddo." she says, pointing ambiguously at the ceiling. If the kid takes the bait and looks up for any cameras, then the doctor will use that to her advantage so the kid can get her shots and everyone can get on with their lives.

"Ah, you'll thank m'later when ya get bit by a squirrel or somethin', and don't have t'worry about rabies or tetanus or whatever," the doctor says with a dismissive wave of a free hand, sticking the kid's arm with the needle at last. "And then you can tell your friends aaaaall about your adventures with th'evil doctor and her terrible needle, eh?"

The vaccination done, she retrieves a powder blue bandage from out of one of the bandage boxes, and sticks it over the 'battle wound'.

"And there y'go, you're done!" Myxo says with muted glee. Then she remembers something that's always said on TV: "Now, that wasn't so bad, was it? ...Ahh, I'd give you candy, but I don't have any yet, hmmmm..." She digs through her drawer yet again, and this time finds something good: a coupon for half off of a banana split at a local ice cream parlor. It is presented to Lucia with a flourish.

"Alright, you're all done! If somethin' happens, though, go ahead and call so my boss doesn't chew my head off. See ya 'round!"

Doctor Mycota will now see Etain.

If you would like to reserve an appointment, the private message inbox is always open.

At the receptionist desk is none other that the great doctor herself, Myxo Mycota. It seems like she's been waiting there for quite a while, complete with a just slightly disturbing grin of eagerness on her face, much like how a child Etain's age would look if he were told that he was going to spend a week at an amusement park, living off of ice cream, funnel cakes, and cotton candy. The woman's spinning around in the chair behind the tall desk, a stained styrofoam cup in one hand spilling java all over the place.

Of course she stops when she realizes someone is in the room. The sound of it is much like bad car brakes.

"Ohhhhhhhh~, it's you! I've been waiting for you all day!" the doctor glees, shooting up from the chair (it topples over and clatters to the far wall) and clapping her hands excitedly. "Etain, right? The unicorn kiddo?"

She vaults over the desk and lands right in front of Etain and Tovar, bending down to ruffle the gene-spliced child's hair in a roguishly affectionate manner. "You're so adorable! I'm Doctor Mycota, and I'll be doin' your vaccines, kay? My office is thataway~" And, she literally skips over to said office, sure that the unicorn would follow! She's more pure than holy water in an ivory goblet, after all! Really.

The unicorn boy's grip on her coat made the genomancer very happy. And when she was happy, she also got a little reckless. Despite her slight disillusionment, she was actually a bit surprised that the kid took to her so quickly. She was worried that her scrambled-beyond-repair genetic makeup would have an adverse effect on him- right now, it seemed to be doing just the opposite.

She just about toppled into her office, barely missing getting her face scraped by her pipe-organ arrangement of needles and vials and bandages. The large bowl of peppermints, caramels, and cinnamon candies next to it were thankfully unharmed, and the small plate of homemade fudge on the other side that would actually prove to be quite delicious managed to escape unsquashed. It's probably a surprise that she didn't have confetti and streamers in the room as well.

Sitting down in her token doctor's stool, she pointed Etain towards the chair for patients, grinning like they're about to ride on a Tilt-a-Whirl. "I promise it'll only hurt as much as a baby bee sting, kay?" she says as she grabs a needle and the vials with the correct vaccinations in them. "You got some magic abilities poppin up, right? This stuff might screw 'em up, but only for a coupla days." For once, she actually sounds a tiny bit reassuring.

Truthbetold, Myxo isn't always the best with kids. But if dealing with kids gets her money, lodging, food, coffee, and chance encounters with unicorn children along with the ability to play with needles unsupervised, then bring them on by the truckload!

In an amazing act that probably defies physics, she shoves the plate of fudge into Etain's lap with one hand while prepping the needle with the other. "Well, there's things that hurt alot worse'n a bee sting, so don't worry, kay?" She tenderly rolls up his sleeve and makes doubly sure that she'll be hitting the right vein- not only out of her own interests, but in the back of her mind she knows that she would be completely toast if she ended up responsible for screwing up a mythical creature.

The injection takes a couple of seconds longer than normal. This is partially because she's actually taking the time to not risk hemorrhaging anything, but there's also the added compounds that'll stop any magical intervention on the part of strengthened immunity.