Day 59: Sun Room (4th Shift)

[contentincloset]

After an intercom broadcast like that, Kurogane felt somewhat better about the little information he'd gotten from Harrington the previous night. The man only sounded competent when he needed to but was an idiot otherwise. Unfortunately that was furthered proof of the General not employing the brightest of staff members, making another option for

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[corvus_veritas]

This whole 'men are power-hungry' thing Renamon kept saying sounded an awful lot like something Badd would say. And he and his cynical speeches were things Byrne did not want to be thinking about right now. He'd had enough worrying about that guy, the fight they'd had, if he would be showing up later, things like that...

Although, in terms of cynical speeches, von Karma was the best at them, wasn't he. And rightfully so, old cranky bastard, if only he were still here when all of this was going on-! Speak of the devil, Renamon sure sounded a lot like him. What did she just say, now? The military will uh, the military is under some governmental power. Right, yes, that is what they are talking about, he's got this. He knows the truth. It has to be the United States government, there's no doubt about it. Only THEY would do something so sinister and so terrible and so and so

So Renamon knew after all! She wasn't blind to the system and she was better for it. She was in --what was it now, was she a lawyer? Didn't she say that before? uhh

Oh right right! He should answer her question first. (She did ask a question, right?) "Of course, because the government's always auh, it's always done stuff like that," Byrne mused, "Being all secretive and--and doing all kinds of shady things. Like the needle." His eyes were distant and dreamy, as if he were somewhere else. Which was true, really. The Run Room never looked cozier. And more lethal, too. Damn this place and its lethality, he should SUE.

THAT NEEDLE.

...... Wait, huh.

[yin_yang_fox]

The stuttering was noted but taken.... Though the more he continued to speak, the more she questioned. His speech was taken on that of those either paranoid or sedated, and she wondered if he had been previously, and it had just been taking a while to set in. The last part... She wondered if it referred to what she thought or something else. That look was a bit... Strange.

"That's true. However." She looked at him carefully, then continued slowly. "...Byrne. Are you feeling all right?" Had something happened that she had missed, other than the wear she had noted around him?

[corvus_veritas]

... What just happened?

Byrne blinked, slowly at first, then rapidly, as if trying to force himself to wake up. Which was a pretty good description of how he felt at the moment. Did he really just fall asleep in the middle of talking to Renamon? Weird. He wasn't even tired or anything.

But better apologize first before he seemed like a complete jerk, especially since Renamon noticed. "I'm--wow, haha, I'm sorry! Did I just doze off? How rude of me." He smiled sheepishly and scratched the back of his head, embarrassed.

And heavily confused. Seriously, that was really weird. Maybe he was just pushing himself too hard today? Oh, actually, you know what? It was probably from going all day without eating. That made sense.

"A-anyway, yeah. I agree with you," he commented, eager to get any conversation away from what he'd just done, "But not everyone seems to have some sort of 'ability', from what it looks like to me. Is the government - assuming they're the ones on top, anyway - just picking people at random, you think?"