The time is now 2:53 AM

[onlynothuman]

It's long after lights out when Simon's slight snores stop, with an abrupt indrawn breath. The only light in the hall is the red exit sign, picking out details in rich crimson, leaving everything else in deep dark shadow

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[myownluck]

It's been a bad night for Harvey. The restless steel-wool scraping in his limbs out full-force, insufferable unless he jerks his legs and flails his arms, every few seconds, or gets up and paces around his 8x9 cell, fighting to move through the antipsychotic haze, still twitching and rubbing his arms. He always wondered why some of the homeless down at the bus stops, or at soup kitchens, rubbed their arms like that, moved the way they did. Now he knows.

While preoccupied with his own troubles and thoughts, he's been aware enough to hear Simon talking to himself. But he hasn't worried about it. Hell, he's been guilty of the same thing, more than a few times.

When he starts shouting, though, when he burrows under the bed and pounds at the wall, Harvey finally starts to consider calling someone.

But he hurts, and the noise grates in his already thin nerves, and even through the medication, the temptation to (don't let him go mad let him scream and scratch his fingers raw) comes through

[edsidlemirth]

Eddie, meanwhile, has been sleeping, and pretty soundly, thanks to what they give him. Sleeping is a good way to hide from boredom. He's been doing that more than usual, lately. He's gotten pretty good at sleeping through lights and conversation and such, but the shouting cuts through, and he wakes up with a start.

Wait, what's going on? He tries to push aside the disorientation and focus. There was -shouting-.

[agent_m0thman]

Someone on night staff knew something was going on. With Patient I-44 back in residence, Dib's got Joker-Cam again.

He's scrolling by the other cells when Simon hits floor and watches for a few moments as he scrambles under the bed. Because it's a slow night.

He's reaching for the radio to contact the hall's guard when Harvey hits the call button. Oops, to slow.

[redshirtatwork]

Outside the hall, the guard looks in through the window before opening the door. And only then radios Kid Kontrol Room.

"Gotta disturbance in here, looks like Garoux." Whee. "Davy, meet me at station two?" Because this particular guard's shirt is not red, not today anyway, and he's not going into the cannibal's cell alone in the middle of the night. Let him make a ruckus, he's waiting right here.