Day 58: Sun Room (Fourth Shift)
Peter's lunch meeting with Tear had gone far better than he could have even expected. It was a good thing that he wasn't the sort of person who judged by age, seeing how the girl had proved herself to be very capable despite the fact that she was only a teenager. Not that Peter would ever admit it out loud, but Tear was a lot more mature than his
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If there was anyone she even cared enough about in this place for something like that to affect her. Probably not, after just a week.
The fact that she had to make it clear that she was never desperate only made her seem even more so to Harvey, especially since she was already trying to subtly ask for more information. It wasn't a stupid move on her part, of course, seeing how information was the only thing in this place that held any sort of value.
"I've still got to have some clue of what you want to know first," he pointed out with a shrug. He wasn't all that eager to help her, especially since he didn't even know if she could give something in return. He wasn't going to go out of his way to tell her things, but if she had something specific on her mind, then... well, maybe.
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But, there was one thing. Now that Sam was off the table and she could actually think of her own goals before her goals for him and where she wanted him to be, she realized something she wasn't especially happy about. That pit in her gut, the one that welled with guilt and burned in her veins just a little. The one that had been there ever since her little trip to the vet.
"Upstairs. Word on the street is they do experiments." God bless the uniform that hid the scar down the center of her chest that'd give an indicator that she knew from more than just word on the street. "What do you know about them? What are they trying to do?"
It was the closest to honesty that Ruby had ever been, and Harvey would never know.
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"I know as much as you really can about it without having been through it myself," he said after a pause. "My roommate went through it, but you better believe that he was being tight-lipped about the whole thing. Whatever goes on up there, it isn't pretty and no one who goes through it is interested in sharing the details."
Which meant that if Ruby wanted concrete details she was going to have to track down someone who'd gone through it and actually be civil enough to get them to open up to her. Harvey didn't see that as being particularly likely.
"It's hard to say what they're trying to do. The general guess is that they're exactly what we're calling them -- experiments. They're changing people around, either to make them better or break them down." It was no secret that they were treated like living specimens rather than humans in this place, after all. Forget what Aguilar said; he wasn't treating them like they were people.
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Were they trying to break her down or build her up to something else? It had felt like her soul was seared, damaged beyond what it already had been. What had once been an emaciated skeleton of a being, torn and abused, was now charred beyond recognition. But only the doctors would really be able to tell her what their plan for her was, it'd seem.
"Your roommate got a name? I mean, I'm just saying, if I'm supposed to go around getting the first hand account, might help if I knew where to start with who'd seen the sharp end of those knives." She shrugged, raising one eyebrow in invitation. It wasn't a particularly demanding request -- she wasn't entitled enough to think that he had to tell her. But there was genuine interest that invited him to want to.
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"Yeah, he has one. Not giving it out, though," he replied with a shrug. Ruby could think whatever she wanted about him, but that wasn't something he was willing to do. She could find information the hard way. If it'd been the other way around, he sure as hell wouldn't have wanted Lunge giving his name out to random people, so this was only fair. It was the right thing to do, and in this case that was something he could be completely certain of.
"Ask around on the bulletin," he followed up, shrugging his shoulders. "Maybe a few people out there might actually be willing to tell you more than the basics." He seriously doubted it, but if she was really that curious then that was what she was going to have to do.
And Harvey was saved from having to wriggle out of more questions by the intercom going off. Finally the day had come to an end, although he knew the night wasn't likely to bring anything better. Still, he wouldn't have to deal with as many people. It was awkward to know how to leave a conversation like this, and so at first he only stood quietly. "Guess I'll be seeing you," was what he eventually came up with before he moved away from the woman to go meet one of the soldiers.
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