Day 57: Sun Room

[bodhiandspirit]

It figured that night would end before Rita and Taura could progress any further. Rita wasn't particularly disappointed to wake up abruptly, as they had reached a dead end. Really, the institute was doing them a favor by bringing them back to the starting point, where they could regroup.

What she didn't appreciate was the loss of valuable time,

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[unheroed]

Well, that had certainly been an interesting way to end the night. That girl had burst into the room, covered in undead secretions and with a bottle of vodka in hand. It was the sort of thing that you couldn't really argue with, and it had made the night a little more worthwhile. Harvey still couldn't decide whether or not going to that "party" had been a good idea, though the fact that he was ambivalent about it probably meant that it hadn't been a total loss

[unheroed]

Oh, Harvey had already gone down this road. The one where everything they did was in the end only to help their captors. It pissed him off, but he knew that it was possible and he didn't need to go through the thought process again. Luckily, Lana didn't give him much time to comment on it anyway, as she stood up and started to throw out theories

[fourstonewalls]

"A society in microcosm? That's not a bad theory." It explained pulling in groups; you couldn't build a social hierarchy overnight, not and have it be functional. The structure, too; asylums weren't universally the same, but most of the patients described a world where they weren't too out of place, and that would normalize it for the rest.

"Unfortunately, it doesn't leave us with very many viable methods of fighting back." Reacting badly, but without knowing what their captors wanted the net result to be, it would be difficult to manipulate the data. If, indeed, that would provoke anything other than further manipulation. "All we can do is keep digging." Her expression showed her exhaustion, but not defeat; she was in this for the long haul.

It was odd, how much the initial trial system had turned her life into a clockwork beast; she'd been here long enough to have run two trials and be almost done with the third -- not counting Sundays. Even as a detective, most cases were done before the ink was dry on the initial

I hope you're okay with ending things here?

[unheroed]

"I can keep digging," Harvey responded after a pause. He realized how much the odds were against them, but when there were people like Lana around who continued to think and theorize, it reminded him that they still had some chance of cracking this. It was a very slim chance and he might just get sick of it and put a bullet through his head at some point, but for the moment he was hanging on