Day 43: Courtyard, Third Shift
Once again, Endrance's nurse interfered with his plans. He had been planning to look around the Game Room, but the moment he began to move towards the Sun Room, she had taken him by the arm. "Your family has asked that we make sure you get as much fresh air and sunshine has possible, and you won't get that by staying inside playing video games all
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Whatever they had injected him with, it was stronger and kicked in much quicker than any of the sedatives they'd developed and tested in Zanzibar for interrogation purposes. And whatever signals and impulses his brain was sending to the artificial nerve system, they didn't quite match up with his conscious decisions most of the time, so he figured the relaxant wasn't at all compatible with the prosthetics. Writing on the bulletin board had turned out to be an almost impossible task, and seeing himself -- or rather those subsitute parts of himself -- break so easily under a simple drug, as well as the fact that he had little control over what was going on and himself was infuriating, to put it mildly. But even then, he had no outlet to express his anger. And he figured he wouldn't have one anytime soon, even with Snake around ( ... )
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When he spoke, it was slightly slurred. This was worse than a hangover. "The least you could do is being honest with me," he said. "You're not that selfless. You're too preoccupied with saving yourself."
Too busy getting your own fix with your eyes closed. It's difficult.
"It's written into your genes. Self-preservation. You can go and deny it if it makes you feel better about yourself, but look back on your actions in Outer Heaven and Zanzibar. You'll kill as soon as you have a suitable excuse." He lifted his head, narrowing his eye and focusing on Snake's silhoutte -- or rather, the blur that looked like Snake. "And something tells me that you already have one." Because if he hadn't, he wouldn't have made an offer like that.
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She had originally wanted to go to the recreational field afterward, intending to look for her Arts and Crafts teammates and perhaps try another race. But her nurse had stopped her, asking with a tone Soma understood immediately whether or not she'd like to try getting fresh air somewhere else today, because Jude was on the field and she didn't want another incident. Soma had backed down grudgingly. It was pointless to engage in a fight with E-0057 in public if it only meant she'd get sedated like he had last time.
Stepping out into the courtyard, the supersoldier spotted a tall woman contemplating the building a short distance away. Curious, she approached, turning to face the building herself. "What are you looking at?"
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"The building's profile," she answered. "It indicates areas exist we do not have access to."
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She nodded in response; the woman was direct and to the point, and Soma was used to that. "Messages on the bulletin board suggest that some patients believe the staircases to the third floor to be behind locked doors on the second."
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Alkaid's nurse had also pushed her outside, telling her she needed to get a little exercise after laying around for so long. Yeah, like they had to ask her twice!! This body was made for moving. Still, next shift, if she didn't have some stupid visitor or something, she'd definitely make it to the library. Then she could surround herself with a little bit of home, and maybe sorta kinda relax ( ... )
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"So...you are here, Alkaid. Haseo told me you were..." He paused, considering how to phrase what, to him, was the obvious next question. It didn't feel right to come straight out and ask about the coma; that felt too indelicate.
"May I ask what your last memory is?"
Endrance fell quiet again, then looked up at the redhead.
"I should thank you, by the way...the last thing I remember is Haseo coming to find me after you asked him to."
That would either be awkward, or...he preferred not to think of the alternative.
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"Haseo did, huh..." Her voice was a little soft. She'd heard that Haseo had been inviting Endrance to his party a lot recently, after she'd gotten back to The World, but they hadn't really partied together a lot recently. Still, all of what Haseo, and apparently Endrance, now remembered, was waaaaay less than what she could recall. It was really weird.
"My last memory? I was running around a field. Soloing, 'cause all you guys were doing Forest of Pain without me." She grinned. "So, I know what happened way past whatever you guys remember. Here's a little spoiler for you: I came back, better than ever."
When he actually thanked her, she was a little taken aback. Endrance? Thanking someone?! No way! "It turned out like I thought it ( ... )
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"Last night? What do you mean?" Had he slept through something important again, like when Kurt had been hurt? But Robin was fine and he wasn't with Bart - which he would be if Bart had gotten hurt bad. It could be something to do with how they'd gotten back here but why didn't he remember anything? "What happened last night?"
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His mind was swimming with ideas of what they could do with the Batman, although most of them wouldn't actually be possible here in the institute. Cornering the man wasn't going to be as satisfying as it could be here, and yet Harvey still felt his heart pumping the way it used to when he was making a flawless argument in the courtroom.
Without really thinking about it, he pulled his coin out of his pocket and started toying with it. His hands were itching for the gun back in his room, but he couldn't get ahead of himself.
Jason had better hurry up.
[He's actually going to be stood up by Jason, so he's free! Come say hi. :3]
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