Day 50: Patient Library (4th Shift)

[mitase]

Sakura had mentioned a library on the second floor, but there was one on the first floor, wasn't there? It was for the patients, sure, but that didn't mean there wouldn't be any useful books. Not that he knew for certain, since every time Hanatarou had been in there previously it hadn't been to pay a lot of attention to the reading material

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[zack_fair]

The name that she gave was one that Zack didn't recognize in the slightest, which made sense since it had happened a good few days before he'd even woken up here. That didn't make the news any more sobering, even if he was pretty used to death by this point. Had the man been taken down by those zombies, then? It wasn't a pretty thought, but he knew better than to ask for more details. It sounded like Taura hadn't been a witness to it, anyway.

The second piece of news caused him to cross his arms over his chest, curiosity grabbed. He didn't want to be so clinical about this, but it came with being a soldier, and Taura seemed to understand that, if her tone was any indication. "Berserk? How so?" he asked with a frown. And how had it led to his death? It was probably another gruesome story, though. While he wouldn't shy away from the details, it was up to the woman to tell him or not.

She had a point about the bulletin, though. Zack had gotten his notes taken down a couple of times, and it just seemed wrong that the staff would keep them from letting each other know when someone had died.

[ninelivesonce]

Long blonde hair and silver eyes, that had been all TK-622 had said.  He hadn't asked for revenge, or even implied he was going to do it personally.  He'd just sounded resigned to the fact.  Taura had taken it to imply that death wasn't unusual -- with all the hazards here, it would be resoundingly strange if it weren't.

"I'm not entirely sure.  TK was pretty upset, and I didn't ask.  He'd know.  TK-622 -- he and Armand were good friends."  Taura wasn't sure why it mattered; if the woman had just gotten so engaged in killing the walking corpses that she'd missed seeing who was in front of her, or if he was asking something different.  Killing rages happened, especially among the untrained.  What else could have turned one patient on another when they had no history -- or at least none TK-622 had known about?  Unless... "I don't think she was brainwashed, if that's what you're asking."  The brainwashed patient-prisoners seemed to guard, not attack, anyway.  Which made sense: why go to the trouble of transporting all of them here only to slaughter them.  It made poor business sense, if nothing else.    

[zack_fair]

So it wasn't something that really needed to be clarified, then. Taura didn't seem to think so, anyway. If that was how it was, then he wasn't going to get pushy. Someone had gone berserk while not being brainwashed, and someone else had died as result. That seemed to be the bare bones of it, and Zack would leave it at that. He knew of the state of going berserk as it worked in spell form, but he doubted that anyone around here had a materia like that. The one they'd found last night had seemed pretty special, after all, and that was a simple Thunder spell.

Besides, people didn't usually go berserk enough to kill people in his experience. He wasn't sure what had happened here, but the fact that one of the deaths that Taura knew about had been caused by another patient was worrisome. What if the head doctor was really just trying to pit them all against each other?

"All right," he responded at a slight delay, nodding as he pulled his hands off the table and set them in his lap with a sigh. The news wasn't good, and Cissnei most certainly seemed to be gone, but he'd still learned a lot here. "Thanks for hearing me out. I'm glad someone saw what happened to her, so I wasn't left wondering."