Day 52: Intercom, Dawn
There was no telling if the next announcement came hours or minutes after the previous one, but regardless of that, it did come on with the onset of dawn. Like clockwork, like always, someone was there to greet the half-groggy patients as they woke up in their beds
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"Let go!" Lightning cried out forcefully, and though she had a brief glimpse of another person in grey coming closer, by now she was well beyond the point of rationality. With her arms being grabbed and forced back as well, all at once the young woman turned much wilder than she'd been before, outright thrashing as she tried to pull away and viciously kicking out at both her captor and anyone else who got close enough to reach.
She'd been knocked around and at times overpowered a bit, of course, but something entirely like this hadn't happened in years... not since she'd started training in hand to hand and then joined the Guardian Corps, anyway. It was near impossible to believe it was happening at all, and had she not been so set on figuring out how to break the man's grip for good, there was no doubt she would have been even more confused. There was no reason why they'd just be holding her rather than actively trying to 'subdue' her further- along with how easily they were doing it to her in the first place, it just didn't make any sense.
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And she'd be less of a handful for the staff, but the nurse didn't say that part.
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"Hey, you all right?" There was no way the answer to that was yes, and Taura winced. "Look, c'mon. Let's get out of the hall and I can introduce you to some people." The woman could move. Definitely a potential ally, even if right now most of Taura's words were going in one ear and out the other. Besides, no one should be left alone here on what might well be her first day -- Taura would have remembered that hair -- or any other day.
It was still strange to have the option of offering a reassuring smile. Miles called them an acquired taste; but he said that a lot. Then again, it might remind the woman too much of the medics. Hrm. She threw pointed looks at the staff, then tried a small one. "Us patients have to stick together, right?"
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And then the plain woman from before was all up in her business too, saying something Lightning just barely caught before she-- did something to her that at first the ex-soldier was just too angry to comprehend. Within moments though, a sudden fog had drifted in over her mind, and abruptly the fight drained out of her, leaving her no choice but to relax in the hold of the unnaturally powerful men who had their grip on her. For some reason it was no longer easy to care about... whatever it was that had fired her up so thoroughly just a minute before.
Soon someone else was talking to her again though, and Lightning noted distantly that the person's voice filtered through to her very strangely. After a moment she slowly looked up entirely at the taller woman nearby, but still didn't really get the point of what she was saying. Introduce her to other people? 'Patients?' But she was in the same clothing Lightning was, which was also identical to what the boy 'Neku' had been wearing the night before. That seemed significant, somehow, and so for now she made no attempt to object.
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Act like predictable, domesticated animals, and no-one would blink at it. Despite the fact that they were all humans, or something close; the staff had bought into the idea that they weren't. That was familiar; affectionate neglect marked the brightest of Taura's years before the Dendarii. Though having gotten a taste for freedom made it difficult to swallow a return trip.
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