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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[hairraising]

Any means necessary. The imitation would have been funny in any other situation (and still kind of was), but right now, it just gave Rapunzel a shiver.

She shook her head to Ilia's question. "The only thing different that happened to me was getting switched to a new room, and I'm pretty sure that didn't happen to either of you," she said to Rose and Ilia both, shoulders slumping slightly. Did they really have this little to go on? Seemed Tsubaki didn't have much else to add either, other than to point out that the four of them really didn't share much in common. Different ranks, different relationships, different experiences. It just seemed so... random. And yet it sounded like they had been picked for a reason.

"Maybe it's just our gifts and abilities?" she suggested. That was the only thing she could think of that had made her and Tsubaki fit in any way to perform their mission. Tsubaki had had the know-how, and Rapunzel was the healing support. Maybe that was the same with Rose and Ilia, she speculated. "Did it feel like you guys were picked because you worked well together? Or, I don't know, had talents that balanced each other out?"

[lovecrafty]

Rose shook her head, too. "Nothing. An entirely quotidian evening. Same room, same roommate."

"We didn't know each other before. Though their estimation wasn't incorrect. If that was their intention." They'd worked as well as a newly-formed team could be expected to, on such a gruesome task. Rose still disagreed with aspects of Ilia's approach, but given that Giuseppe was dead, it was all water under the domicile.

"We could check for these," Rose added, taking off her beret and shining the Eagle badge. "In case we think that there have been others recruited."

[avengingfists]

"I remember the announcement," Ilia said with a nod. The General had announced that they could expect changes to the institute. Tsubaki was probably right that this was one of those new changes, along with whatever had been left for the patients in the Medical Wing. Ilia made a mental note to check it out one of these nights.

Rapunzel seemed to have undergone a room change, but for Rose it had been just the same as ever. "Same here; no new room or roommmate for me." Lana was a constant Ilia hoped she could always count on.

As for taking them for their abilities or testing their teamwork compatibility, those were less measurable at face-value until put to the test, which seems to have indicated positive results. At least with their two missions.

"The Eagle badges are a good indicator," Ilia praised, her hand unconsciously moving up to touch the edge of her beret. "Should we run into anyone with them, we should probably record their experiences and maybe we'll see patterns in the missions themselves." Or else parse out what the military's goals for them could be in the future.

If more information was dropped, perhaps they really could reach out to the resistance and be of some help to them, though Ilia had perhaps ruined her chances with making friends on that side of this battle with her previous actions. She had no regrets, however. She had done what was necessary to keep both herself and Rose safe, and that was all that had mattered at the time.