Night 58: Main Hallway, 1-Center

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[from here]Turning the corner, Vino found that, in fact, he was very much early, it seemed. Huh. There was no one yet in this central hallway, though if he looked back towards the west side of the building, that strange person with the unnatural-looking white hair had gone down that end of the big hallway. He could still see the whiteness of their

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[promisedawhale]

"Are you sure...?" Brook tried again, just as quickly as the girl had replied. He knew that such a quick response usually meant that it was most certainly not "nothing". People were always trying to hide their vulnerabilities in this place.

Just as he was about to content himself with simply following along, the girl came to a stop and turned to explain better. With how he'd seen some others respond to getting injected with things, Brook knew that needles were not good things in this place. In fact, they were items that he had no desire to have anywhere near him or others. Especially not when they were such young children. He could not imagine what the young girl had done to earn getting stuck with a needle and injected with anything!

"That sounds absolutely terrible! Are you sure you should be moving around? I mean, wouldn't the drug move quicker or something...?" Brook asked in a rapid fire of questions and concerns, thinking about what the best actions were for this kind of situation. He had a brief moment of wishing that Chopper had been there to say, but shook the thought since he knew it was wishful.

And besides that, she had started walking again. "Rita-san? Are you sure you'll be ok?" he asked again after taking some steps to catch back up.

[bodhiandspirit]

Moving could make the drug act faster...? Yes, that was possible. Rita was a little surprised that the man knew that much, since she'd pinned him for a complete idiot at first. "It's possible, but I'd rather do something and make it worse than sit around and be complacent. I didn't give them permission to use me like a lab rat," she hissed, still walking.

Besides, sitting around idly would be the ideal condition for a controlled test. If Rita couldn't stop them from injecting her in the first place, she could at least try to add enough variables to the test to make the results useless. That was an option she'd have even if she couldn't save herself from the effects. In the absence of anything else to be happy about, that kind of revenge would satisfy her for a brief while.

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