As friendly as Leela had been, Rita was glad to be escorted away from her, for fear that some of that crazy might have been contagious. Abducted by aliens. Yeah, right
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Nothing. There was nothing she could use here, unless she felt like trying her luck with a fork that broke if you bent it the wrong way (Morgan tested several until Susie Pudgebucket picked them up and moved them down the table), or else a depressingly non-painful-looking water pitcher. Plus, the effects of whatever they'd given her still hadn't completely worn off. At least prepared food meant there had to be some knives around somewhere, but it looked like another attempt at a fight was gonna have to wait
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As with the others who walked through the door, Rita gave the black-haired woman who entered a passing glance, then looked back to her food. She was a bit surprised when the stranger wound up sitting nearby, though it sounded like the nurse was responsible for that. 'Miss Faye,' was it? It wouldn't be too surprising if that name turned out to be wrong, though. The staff here didn't seem to get anything right.
"Nothing, as far as I know," Rita replied with a bitter frown. "What kind of hospital is this supposed to be, anyway? I haven't exactly been to a lot of hospitals before, but I'm pretty sure most of them don't have rooms for games or crafts."
Perhaps more perplexing was the fact that none of the other patients appeared to be sick or injured. What did they think they were treating here? Several possibilities surfaced in Rita's mind, but with so little information, she couldn't quite jump to any conclusions yet.
Blecch, this tuna was the least fresh she'd had in--ever, actually. Morgan couldn't say she was impressed by this place's food. Not that she needed another reason to want out of here.
She shrugged. "A good one, I guess. The last thing I remember was a big hole in my stomach, and it's completely gone now. But since they're still refusing to let me go, I don't think I'm gonna feel bad about skipping out on my bill." Which she would've paid otherwise, if she'd thought for a minute this outfit was legit. Morgan wasn't a pirate, after all.
But she still couldn't figure out what this girl would be doing here. "So you haven't gotten on anyone's bad side lately? The Marquis DeSinge? LeChuck?" she asked. She and Elaine were definitely on both their lists.
Morgan snorted. "That makes two of us." Well, maybe "few" was an understatement. Or maybe not. Depended whether you counted the dead ones or not.
And while normally she'd agree that this was a lot of work to go through for revenge when a little well-applied pressure in the right places would work just as well, they were dealing with the masters of excess (seriously creepy excess) here. "Well, one of those guys I named is a crazed scientist who experiments on people 'for SCIENCE!'--" Morgan did a passable impression of DeSinge's ridiculous pseudo-French accent, complete with equally ridiculous hand-waving, "--so if he's involved, it makes sense." Maybe they'd just grabbed anyone who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time--or maybe there was some reason why they needed all these decidedly non-swashbuckling, non-valuable-looking people. As long as she got out of there and got to deliver some well-deserved (and pointy) retribution to whoever was responsible, she didn't care all that much about the whys
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Morgan shrugged dismissively. "I don't know, the guy's a whackjob. He's got a magnetic monkey and a vole-powered generator. Right now he's studying the Pox of LeChuck so he can figure out the secret of life or something." Honestly, she'd sort of tuned out after a while. DeSinge's explanation had gotten kind of technical, and then they'd started getting down to the real negotiations and she'd stopped caring about tracking on all the details
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"The where?!" Morgan burst out. That wasn't just outside her normal area of operation (which was much broader than most people's as it was); that wasn't even on the map. Any map. So unless this "Ilyccia continent" was somewhere way beyond the reaches of known civilization (in which case, how did the girl end up here?), she had to conclude it didn't exist.
And the next thing out of the girl's mouth was even more ridiculous. "Of course not!" Morgan snapped impatiently. "I've never even heard of Terca Lumireis!" The way she parroted the unfamiliar syllables back probably made that obvious, too. A second later, her irritated expression turned into a smirk as an absurd thought hit her: "What's that supposed to be--another planet?" Hah! Maybe this kid thought she could convince people of anything under weird circumstances like these, but Morgan LeFlay wasn't that gullible
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Rita knew that question was going to sound ridiculous. This person was either going to think she was nuts for thinking they could be outside Terca Lumireis, or for thinking they could be on Terca Lumireis.
So which was it, actually? Leela sure seemed convinced that this was 'Earth,' but Rita hadn't seen enough evidence yet. After all, there was still another possibility: that everyone she had talked to so far today was either crazy or lying.
The woman's stern look was reciprocated with Rita's own sharp look. She didn't bat an eye at the threat, but instead focused on the question. "Of course it's a planet. What the heck else would it be?" she answered rather bluntly, sounding as though she thought the stranger was stupid. In reality, there was a feeling of uncertainty welling up inside her, but if this really was a hoax, she didn't want to look like she was falling for it, even for a second.
Morgan wasn't an astronomer--that kind of thing was for DeSinge and other people who had more money and free time than she did and fewer good ideas about how to use them--but again, she had at least some idea of what planets they'd discovered, and Terca Lumiwhatever wasn't on the list.
She didn't have an answer to what else it would be besides a planet, but she wasn't going to give any ground to this--this clearly confused girl, either. That people didn't think they were lying didn't mean that what they said was true, after all. She could be crazy, or under the influence of some bizarre voodoo spell, or even just stuck in a game of make-believe or--or something. There were probably a ton of good explanations.
Morgan charged forward, trying to sound utterly confident and maybe succeeding. "Obviously we're on Earth. And since it'd be impossible to travel between planets even if--that one existed, I'm pretty sure you're from Earth too." She didn't even think voodoo could go that far. Bring people back from the dead, sure. Turn them
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"I know I'm not from Earth," Rita shot back, getting agitated. "I think I'd know what planet I've spent my whole life on!"
Looked like it wasn't just Leela who believed this place was 'Earth'... Rita's logic had been just about the same as this stranger's. Since traveling between planets wasn't possible, this couldn't be a different planet. This had to be Terca Lumireis.
So what if she suspended that preconception for just a moment?
The barrier that protected Terca Lumireis from the Adephagos had vanished. What if it had been keeping something else out as well? Aliens could have been observing their world from a distance, and decided to pick up a few research subjects as soon as the interference around the planet disappeared
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"Nothing, as far as I know," Rita replied with a bitter frown. "What kind of hospital is this supposed to be, anyway? I haven't exactly been to a lot of hospitals before, but I'm pretty sure most of them don't have rooms for games or crafts."
Perhaps more perplexing was the fact that none of the other patients appeared to be sick or injured. What did they think they were treating here? Several possibilities surfaced in Rita's mind, but with so little information, she couldn't quite jump to any conclusions yet.
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She shrugged. "A good one, I guess. The last thing I remember was a big hole in my stomach, and it's completely gone now. But since they're still refusing to let me go, I don't think I'm gonna feel bad about skipping out on my bill." Which she would've paid otherwise, if she'd thought for a minute this outfit was legit. Morgan wasn't a pirate, after all.
But she still couldn't figure out what this girl would be doing here. "So you haven't gotten on anyone's bad side lately? The Marquis DeSinge? LeChuck?" she asked. She and Elaine were definitely on both their lists.
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And while normally she'd agree that this was a lot of work to go through for revenge when a little well-applied pressure in the right places would work just as well, they were dealing with the masters of excess (seriously creepy excess) here. "Well, one of those guys I named is a crazed scientist who experiments on people 'for SCIENCE!'--" Morgan did a passable impression of DeSinge's ridiculous pseudo-French accent, complete with equally ridiculous hand-waving, "--so if he's involved, it makes sense." Maybe they'd just grabbed anyone who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time--or maybe there was some reason why they needed all these decidedly non-swashbuckling, non-valuable-looking people. As long as she got out of there and got to deliver some well-deserved (and pointy) retribution to whoever was responsible, she didn't care all that much about the whys ( ... )
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And the next thing out of the girl's mouth was even more ridiculous. "Of course not!" Morgan snapped impatiently. "I've never even heard of Terca Lumireis!" The way she parroted the unfamiliar syllables back probably made that obvious, too. A second later, her irritated expression turned into a smirk as an absurd thought hit her: "What's that supposed to be--another planet?" Hah! Maybe this kid thought she could convince people of anything under weird circumstances like these, but Morgan LeFlay wasn't that gullible ( ... )
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So which was it, actually? Leela sure seemed convinced that this was 'Earth,' but Rita hadn't seen enough evidence yet. After all, there was still another possibility: that everyone she had talked to so far today was either crazy or lying.
The woman's stern look was reciprocated with Rita's own sharp look. She didn't bat an eye at the threat, but instead focused on the question. "Of course it's a planet. What the heck else would it be?" she answered rather bluntly, sounding as though she thought the stranger was stupid. In reality, there was a feeling of uncertainty welling up inside her, but if this really was a hoax, she didn't want to look like she was falling for it, even for a second.
"What planet did you think we were on?"
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She didn't have an answer to what else it would be besides a planet, but she wasn't going to give any ground to this--this clearly confused girl, either. That people didn't think they were lying didn't mean that what they said was true, after all. She could be crazy, or under the influence of some bizarre voodoo spell, or even just stuck in a game of make-believe or--or something. There were probably a ton of good explanations.
Morgan charged forward, trying to sound utterly confident and maybe succeeding. "Obviously we're on Earth. And since it'd be impossible to travel between planets even if--that one existed, I'm pretty sure you're from Earth too." She didn't even think voodoo could go that far. Bring people back from the dead, sure. Turn them ( ... )
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Looked like it wasn't just Leela who believed this place was 'Earth'... Rita's logic had been just about the same as this stranger's. Since traveling between planets wasn't possible, this couldn't be a different planet. This had to be Terca Lumireis.
So what if she suspended that preconception for just a moment?
The barrier that protected Terca Lumireis from the Adephagos had vanished. What if it had been keeping something else out as well? Aliens could have been observing their world from a distance, and decided to pick up a few research subjects as soon as the interference around the planet disappeared ( ... )
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