Night 56: Kitchen

[sanguinario]

[From here.]The kitchen, unsurprisingly, was just as he remembered it to be. White and remarkably clean, with the usual and disappointingly normal array of cooking supplies scattered about. Unconsciously, Edward hesitated in actually entering the room. As sharp as his memory was about the room itself, the events that had occurred seemed even

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[bodhiandspirit]

"Not that ridiculous," Rita insisted as she followed Taura to the kitchen. There was simply no comparison between Rita's skillful spellcasting and... nut-punching. None that Rita would acknowledge, anyway.

It wasn't worth continuing on that subject, however. When Taura announced the state of the lock, Rita simply crossed her arms and nodded. "I'll leave it to you, then." With Taura's brawn, this sort of thing was probably right up her alley. It was unnecessary for Rita to assist, so she'd take the extra time to recover her energy, and to check out the area.

Rita also found it odd that the refrigerator door was untouched, and while Taura tackled the lock, she circled the room with her flashlight, checking to make sure no one was hiding nearby. As she walked around the room, the sound of voices made her pause. Listening quietly, she was able to confirm both that they were human voices, and that they were coming from a nearby pantry. Nothing to be concerned about, she supposed, but it was worth making a mental note of.

Still... were they really the first ones heading that way? Did that mean they were the only ones reckless enough to take the Head Doctor's obvious bait? Ugh.

[ninelivesonce]

It had worked, hadn't it? Besides, Taura hadn't started the, um, personal nature of the fight. She'd just responded in kind. It had disabled the boy without doing him any permanent injury; assuming he was a fellow patient, they could laugh about it tomorrow. It wasn't the first time Taura's breasts had been the only thing that made people realize she was human, let alone female. Somehow recognizing gender made them step back and recognize her as a person. So their other advantages aside, she didn't resent having a set of appendages that weren't strictly functional, when it came to war.

She was sort of surprised Bharaputra hadn't tweaked them out, or built only male clone-sibs in the first (and only) batch. Then again, given that the majority of lab products had at least twice as much breast tissue, from a proportional sense, even counting those that most people would call male, that was perhaps unsurprising. At least they hadn't given her more than two. She'd run into that assumption before, though most people didn't say it to her face. Not with those teeth.

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