Day 50: Courtyard
Again, there were choices. After leaving the child and the animal, Rei had followed again. When prompted where she wanted to spend time, the pilot had no preference. If they wished her to do something, they would place it before her. If they left her with options, she would take the ones they did not want. So her response was minimal, and so the
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What had Ruby been to him according to the institute? He couldn't quite remember. That day when they'd all reverted to their false identities, it came with memories, but not all of it. He wasn't sure about the details of his childhood, for instance, just the knowledge that there was nothing out of the ordinary about it. Or anything at all. The thing that stood out the most was Dean's attempted suicide and the death of...but that hadn't happened. Or it had, but not the way they said it did.
He remembered she'd helped him look for whatever it was that'd killed Dean. Whoever. But Lilith had never factored in. And he'd be damned if he knew what plans referred to. It had to be something, but either Ruby didn't know, either, or she wasn't telling him, or something in between. None of the options would surprise him, but it didn't matter. Their goals lined up. That was the point. Everything else...everything else was just exactly that.
He was about to ask her for more details, but he could see the nurses starting to poke their heads into the room. Dammit, they were really against people having any form of extended conversations, weren't they?
He flicked his gaze up, then back at Ruby. "All right, well, I'm gonna swing by tonight. I have something for you."
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