[The video comes on to show Aya and Umi sitting back to back. Wrapped around them are wires meant to look like rose vines with long thorns. Along the vines are red and white roses. Both are already bleeding. Aya is the first to stir and look around. His eyes narrow as he glances back to see Umi.] Umi. You need to wake up.
Wha...? Ouch. Eh
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He sounds calm as he speaks but he is actually very worried about this.]
You were able to escape that situation, weren’t you?
[Hopes for a satisfactory answer. ]
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Weak as she is, and agonizing over news about her brother, she still manages to reach for the communicator and reply. They've told her he's out of danger. But that's hardly enough. Maybe whoever it is can expand on that information. Maybe it's even Ken!]
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...Eagle?
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[A weak voice, but… responding that was good. ]
If you can respond then you must have made it out of that situation?
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Hey... Aya and I are way too tough to let a sick joke like that get the better of us.
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Then you are both recovering?
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There's a pause as she takes a deep breath and hates waiting and not knowing. But...]
Yeah. Ken, Presea and Clef got there in time... We both got taken care of.
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And Aya he knows so little about really.
Still… a joke is not the kind of word he would have picked. ]
Then Clef can still use healing magic right now?
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...Lots of healing magic would've been needed to fix all that. Clef got it started. The hospital took care of the rest. Or IS. I don't know about him, dammit.
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[The very place Eagle had avoided earlier.
By Earth standards it was probably a safe enough place… ]
No one has told you how your friend is doing?
Don’t they have one of those…
[Trying to think of the term. For him it would have been ‘view screen’ but for her… maybe… ]
‘call buttons’… so you can summon the nurses and ask about him?
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I've been asking about him FOR HOURS now! They told me he's out of danger. That's a HUGE relief. But... still! [She understands the doctors need time to work. But once that's through she's going to drive the nurses mad until they allow her to visit.]
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[Knows you will worry anyway… ]
He is probably just resting right now, which maybe is what someone else should be doing?
[A teasing suggestion that maybe Umi too should rest for a bit. ]
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[Can’t argue that! ]
It shouldn’t have happened to either one of you.
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