Day 52: Intercom, Dawn

[damned_intercom]

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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Re: outside F6

[thestormishere]

It seemed that no matter how hard Lightning tried to fight back, somehow the men - because now there was suddenly two of them - continued to hang on and further immobilize her. Frustration managed to make her truly desperate, and as she struggled a tinge of actual fear finally set in for the first time since she'd found herself inside the place. At that point the size of the halls didn't matter, because she was now set on not only starting up some magic, but calling her Eidolin to her as well. The idea of reducing the entire building to burning rubble was looking really good, from her point of view.

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.

[ninelivesonce]

"Yeah. Patience." Taura snorted delicately. She couldn't say much more with the medtechs pressing close. "The staff don't like it when we challenge their authority." She turned to one of the large men, who were backing off now that the fight had gone out of the pink-haired woman's eyes. "Why don't you pick on someone your own size, eh?" He was almost Taura's height. Almost. "We're going, we're going. To the cafeteria."

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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