[Yeager happens to spot her as she sits and immediately wrinkles his brow in concern--is she barefoot? In this weather? He heads over, step quickening as he notices her wounds, and crouches down beside her.]
Are you all right, Miss? [It's a bit of a obvious question, but he figures it best to voice his concern before anything else. He'd rather not have her suspecting he was about to harm her further. Victims can be skittish sometimes, after all.]
[He reaches into his suit jacket, pulls out a handkerchief and attempts to gently wipe some of the blood off of her. Ah, geez. What the heck did she get into?]
[He nods and takes her arm to help her up. Yep, better get her there as soon as possible. He doesn't have any kind of healing ability, after all, and while he does have some basic first aid knowledge, it's not as though he walks around with bandages and antiseptic. He does wish he could amend her lack of shoes, but he can help generally with the issue of the cold...]
Here. [He shrugs off his jacket and offers it to her.] You had better keep warm.
[Once she has that on, he winds an arm beneath her shoulders to support her and starts slowly walking, heading in the direction of the clinic and watching the road in order to keep her from stepping on anything painful.]
Awfully discourteous of the Malnosso to send you back like this, especially with the weather as it is. Practically speaking, I would think they'd want to keep their test subjects in better health. You can't really get useful data when you start off with someone so wounded.
[Well, he supposes, it does depend on what kind of data they're looking for. But he's talking in generalities.]
A little kid? [He throws her a glance at that, intrigued.] You mean they have somehow turned you into a kid, or did they send you home and take you back from an earlier time in your life?
I wonder how they managed that. [Huh, if they can de-age someone, it sounds like they've uncovered a potential means of immortality. Which would be awfully marketable--uh, useful from a humanitarian perspective, he means. XD Though perhaps it only works inside of the barrier. He's entertained the idea of this all being some kind of fantastic virtual reality before, too, and that would explain how such a thing could happen...but that's a little too philosophical for him. He gives a small shake of his head to dispel those thoughts away.] I hope you came out of that experience all right.
Are you all right, Miss? [It's a bit of a obvious question, but he figures it best to voice his concern before anything else. He'd rather not have her suspecting he was about to harm her further. Victims can be skittish sometimes, after all.]
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Not exactly.
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[He reaches into his suit jacket, pulls out a handkerchief and attempts to gently wipe some of the blood off of her. Ah, geez. What the heck did she get into?]
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[She won't push the handkerchief away but she will lean her head against the wall.]
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So they had you fighting monsters?
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[Selphie sighs before she starts attempting to get up off the ground.]
I better get to the clinic...
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Here. [He shrugs off his jacket and offers it to her.] You had better keep warm.
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[She accepts the jacket and slowly works her way into it.]
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Awfully discourteous of the Malnosso to send you back like this, especially with the weather as it is. Practically speaking, I would think they'd want to keep their test subjects in better health. You can't really get useful data when you start off with someone so wounded.
[Well, he supposes, it does depend on what kind of data they're looking for. But he's talking in generalities.]
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[And you know... no snow on the ground to worry about.]
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[And she went prancing around in the fountain in her birthday suit and got to play tag with a man in the Navy!]
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[And because he's really starting to wonder now:] How many times have you been kidnapped?
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[Selphie's opinion on being here or not wavers from time to time but she doesn't want to think about it at the moment.
Yeager's next question makes her pause for a bit.]
Including this one? Four times.
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