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[improvesmorale]

For the last week, all I've known were hospital walls. Soft green wallpaper. Concerned eyes. I hear murmurings from the nurses about monsters in the night, and then I hear the monsters, those moans and growls sounding almost like buildings calmly settling. But not exactly. From the airtight windows, I see the streets empty out and the sides of the

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[homomachinis]

Well that sounds like a shitty sight. The view from the hospital, I mean.

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[improvesmorale]

Most people in the hospital probably don't care about the view.

Besides. I hear that's night everywhere.

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[homomachinis]

Yeah, it apparently is.

Still, there isn't much else to look at in the hospital.

[improvesmorale]

Who is this?

[homomachinis]

One of the new guys. Mitchell Hundred. Who are you?

[improvesmorale]

Some other new guy. What did they tell you?

[homomachinis]

A whole load of shit. Don't go out in the dark, we're in an alternate reality, there's no way to get home, et cetera, et cetera.

[improvesmorale]

Et cetera, et cetera. Sounds like what I got, too.

What do you think?

[homomachinis]

I think there's some bullshit around here, and it stinks to high heaven.

[improvesmorale]

What gives you that impression?

[homomachinis]

I don't know, maybe because we showed up in some alternate fucking reality with no way home?

[improvesmorale]

Yeah, that sounds like a place to start.

What are you thinking this is, then?

[homomachinis]

I could think of a lot of things that it could be. As far as I've been able to tell, people don't have any information on what brought us new people here, but apparently there's a pattern. They had an empty apartment building waiting for us.

[improvesmorale]

I know. I'm getting escorted there after the hospital.

Maybe it doesn't matter what this place is if we're just going to be stuck here anyway. Maybe it's better not to know.

[homomachinis]

Maybe, but I don't really like not knowing anything about where I'm going to be living, especially if it's indefinitely.

[improvesmorale]

What if you found out that it was unpleasant?