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ever_deceptive November 13 2011, 17:06:39 UTC
[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.]

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boomchucka November 13 2011, 17:35:28 UTC
[Selphie takes a few moments to mull over that question before she shakes her head in response.]

Not exactly.

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ever_deceptive November 13 2011, 19:39:44 UTC
What happened? Is this the fault of the Malnosso?

[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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boomchucka November 13 2011, 21:10:00 UTC
Sounds like you're new so you probably don't about the monsters they have called Shift Hunters so it's totally the Malnosso's fault.

[She won't push the handkerchief away but she will lean her head against the wall.]

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ever_deceptive November 14 2011, 00:34:03 UTC
[Well, he's relatively new. New enough not to have heard of those, at least. His brow furrows in concern.]

So they had you fighting monsters?

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boomchucka November 14 2011, 00:39:44 UTC
Uh huh.

[Selphie sighs before she starts attempting to get up off the ground.]

I better get to the clinic...

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ever_deceptive November 14 2011, 00:52:02 UTC
[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.

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boomchucka November 14 2011, 01:05:07 UTC
Oh... thank you.

[She accepts the jacket and slowly works her way into it.]

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ever_deceptive November 14 2011, 01:30:47 UTC
[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.]

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boomchucka November 14 2011, 02:06:38 UTC
It's... kinda how they roll around here. They've sent me back as a little kid before so this is nothing compared to that.

[And you know... no snow on the ground to worry about.]

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ever_deceptive November 14 2011, 02:47:34 UTC
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?

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boomchucka November 14 2011, 02:48:54 UTC
They... turned me into a six year old for five days.

[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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ever_deceptive November 14 2011, 02:57:17 UTC
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.

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boomchucka November 14 2011, 03:53:01 UTC
I managed alright. I stayed with a friend who's since left this place but it's better that she's not here.

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ever_deceptive November 14 2011, 04:11:41 UTC
It'd be better if we were all not here, I suppose.

[And because he's really starting to wonder now:] How many times have you been kidnapped?

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boomchucka November 14 2011, 04:20:39 UTC
Maybe.

[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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