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[undaunts]

[.... Yeah she just shrugs.]

I dunno! I guess we should keep wandering until we find the boss battle or a way out of here. Are you up for it?

[undaunts]

That's right!

[A beat, as she goes over what he just said.]

Wait, no, that's not right at all! I'm not a people hunter!

[adminproof]

[he would if he could!!]

Ah...

[Well, with that, the wires thankfully have their fill of contact for the time being, after giving her a hug around her shoulders. It's not warm at all, the cold metal not very conducive to intimacy or affection, but they at least retract into his back after they're done.]

...My apologies.

[adminproof]

[The mischievous mood is gone; his smile fades from its face as quickly as it crept up in the first place]

...Yes. The possibility of our data being or having been tampered with is a very real one. ...We are Swords, after all.

[Saying it out loud somehow makes it sound truer, more real, letting it sink in. He's had to deal with that for a long time, so this is old news, but it doesn't make it any less of an...unpleasant acknowledgement, so to speak. Since their code was recovered, it stands to reason that there is the slight chance that other things might have been tampered with. To him, CERES probably didn't retrieve them out of the pure goodness of their hearts.]

Even if we are not the finest ones an administrator would wish for.

[Saiduq knows he's been a very, very poor Sword, rebelling against his creator and administrator, rebelling against the divine order of the universe, helping humans destroy his fellow Swords...]

[adminproof]

[He nods, having seemingly accepted Naoki's reassurance.]

It is still somewhat troubling to have it happen in the first place. ...Suffice it to say, I am averse to the idea of my data being tampered with.

[He's not human, so the injected substance shouldn't have affected him at all, yet it did, and the loss of control is really the more concerning part, however temporary.]

[adminproof]

[His eyes widen temporarily (was he that transparent? Or was Sorey simply that perceptive?) but he regains his earlier calmness. He chuckles, the melancholy mood, however brief, disappearing entirely.]

...I'm glad to hear that. Friends are truly a wonderful thing, aren't they?

[To have friends who will support him, with his burden...]

They must shine brightly as well.

jack.

[allthreefourths]

☁

[ huggy.

well, that explains it.

at least hiccup can relax a little bit, knowing that the effect of whatever they got jack with wasn't... too bad (while also being simultaneously not surprised that jack took a needle for a kid, jack will be jack). he's-- relieved? yeah, relieved. that's it. they could've done so much worse. ]

Nowhere! It came from... absolutely nowhere.

[ nowhere. absolutely not from a fifteen-year old toothpick that woke up one day to cerealia deciding to make him plus his dragon a flying-taxi for basically anyone that so much as looked at them. ]

Now, a non-panicked topic change. [ nowhere. but this is a genuine statement, though there is a hint of teasing underneath: ] I'm sure that boy appreciates the fact you saved him from about a dozen potential awkward moments. Should we preemptively change your name to Jack Hugs?

[ nice ring to it. ]

[fallenshepard]

"I see, it doesn't seem like a fairly new facility."

Perhaps it had been something that was retrofitted or had been closed for some period of time. Still somewhat uncomfortable with the gown, Ginoza grabbed the top sheet and wrapped it around his waist to help a little with the open back of the gown.

"Were any of the staff brought in from another hospital?"

[masakados]

It happens a bit too often here.

[Punctuated by Naoki shaking his head. It's not like he's been here a year or something, but after almost four months, he's found out they can be messed with as easily as that.]

Sometimes it's just that things change around us and get dangerous, but other times... We'll get yanked into ViViD, like now, or we'll act differently like you did there.

[deontology]

I don't want to understand you.

[Have some more rejection then.]

[souling]

Maybe I don't want you understanding me either. Hah, now you have to agree with me.

[Literally, the worst form of wanting to be right.]

[zitteraal]

[ Okay...okay!! Let's get this girl out of here before this evil scientist decides to use his toy hammer for potentially nefarious purposes. Human experimentation sucks.

He's literally just walking up to the surgeon's table and unbuckling those restrains while the doctor is busy trying to calm himself down. What a joke. ]

In what sorts of situations. Non-dangerous?

[ Excuse this stick in the mud response while he tries to haul her up into proper sitting position! Sorry for his face, too. ]

[zitteraal]

[ Huh. He placidly points to a sign on the wall where there should reasonably be a map... or something, except the only thing it says is 'did you really think we'd just give you a map right here, you guys are so naive'.

This game is the worst. ]

Stairs are a good option.

[zitteraal]

So it's something of a survival aptitude test, then.

[ A glance towards the operating table where Aura'd been strapped to... ]

You would have failed. [ adolf?! ]

[deontology]

[why is this happening.....]

Are you a child...?

[And yet he's also avoiding admitting she's right, maybe he's also 5 years old]

[cutebutexpendable]

... oh. Huh.

[ This is about when most people would say something thoughtful or considerate, like "my condolences" or "sorry to hear that." ]

[ And then there's Styx. ]

Lemme guess- she's not into the whole horns and wings thing, is she?

[cutebutexpendable]

Right. Right! Pull the other leg, it's got bells on.

[ He's not letting himself feel any hope, no sirree. ]

[jyajyaaan]

Hmmmmmm~ [Giving Adolf a long look, he suddenly grins and elbows him in the side in a school boy manner.] Leave deciding that up to me, won't you~?

Because I have a good feeling that I'll want to remember you-uh?

[Being warned, he of course stops and then triggers the trapdoor with the tips of his toes.] Wow! You really found one!

[Following along, he takes in their route, committing it to his memory while also keeping his eyes open for any hints for which direction they need to go.]

I'm Shingetsu. Rei Shingetsu, a first year at Heartland Academy in Heartland City. Well, or I was.

[cutebutexpendable]

I dunno, kid, I'm not seeing a lot of monsters around here. Doesn't leave a whole lot of other things left to hunt, does it?

[jyajyaaan]

Huh? But wouldn't that be impossible to begin with? I mean, you have to be alive in order to observe and understand something, right?

[There are robots, but even they need to have somebody who tells them what to do and programs them and analyzes their data. ...Unless they are like Orbital 7 and Obomi, but then again they're both the type of AI's that are practically people and thus alive.]

[immobileyes]

... I'm not trying to pull your leg, though.

[cutebutexpendable]

No, not literally pull my leg. I mean you've gotta be kidding, because people just don't- they don't come back. From the dead. From a dead planet.

... they don't, right?

[shikisha]

Then why the hell do you want to touch me all of a sudden?!

[notsolomon]

"It is possible in this place, is it not?" William grimaced, because damn he had seen those "ladies" coming at him with their needles. He as glad he had avoided that fate.

"Though it does not bold well for traditional remedies working. They didn't say anything to you when they gave you the injection, did they?"

[patrimony]

That--

[ As a knight, it's true that she may have to kill someone someday, but... ]

... There is always another way.