Night 58: M71-M80 Hallway

[believein0]

[M79]

Zero didn't have to wait long. All at once, the lights shut off and the door suddenly unlocked. Whether this was done by someone or happened on its own didn't matter; it was obviously deliberate no matter how it happened. He figured as much from the previous night and from what Guy and the other patients had told him throughout the day. So

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[brb_burgers]

It seemed highly unlikely but he had yet to come across his roommate aside from the one time. This fellow much be the must popular kid on the block, literally. Had him a little jealous, not being the center of attention. At least tonight he hadn't awakened in some strange room with a strange chair and a doc decidedly off his rocker. No, instead he was a little dispirited, no company for the evening and not much in the way of super important heroic things to do but wander around.

Place was crazy enough, though. Could get interesting. What was also interesting was seeing England step out of the room next to him. Wait. What? The only portion of him that England could see from his vantage point was from his nose to Nantucket, peering over the edge of the door. Watching him and eyeing the pipe and...

"... I mean, I knew you were kinda red sometimes but. Wow." So he was half joking and half deadly. Russia had disappeared and this place claimed to have killed him. He wasn't about to gloat about missing out on the opportunity. "So, uh. That your room?"

[brb_burgers]

The mere thought that he had all those pipes underground did make his mind begin to sort out a way to fix that problem. Maybe he'd make a new kind of pipe or streamline it with some other newfangled technology. Yeah, something space age would be nice. Could market it as brand new and superior because men in space used it. Anything that was good enough for those boys was certainly good enough for the average joe.

All of that was thought in a moment's breath and he took England's latter comment seriously. "Well, could you keep it down? I think you're scaring off my roommate." he gestured to the other bunk in his room, emptied and abandoned. "Anyway, if you're leaving, let me tag along. I... ah, one of the docs..."

Really, how did he talk about this while maintaining some dignity. "They had a chat with me." why was he worried about dignity? He was the best nation in the world and he could talk about anything he wanted with whoever he wanted to.