Nightshift 60: F01-F10 Hallway

[ninelivesonce]

Taura felt like herself again. Her skin fit over her bones, and while her shoulder had fresh bandages and wounds that still reached into muscle and restricted motion, it was hersWhich was kind of unnerving if she thought about it too much. This body might have belonged to a young woman who hadn't asked to be replaced -- or it might not have, and

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[see_my_back]

Sakura shrugged off the doctor's usual obnoxious and often cryptic greeting, making a note of anything she deemed important before clipping the radio to her belt and packing the rest of her things. With any luck, Sai would still be in his room waiting and she could heal him now that she had access to her chakra.

Without a backward glance, she snuck out the door and into the hall.

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[hasnomeaning]

The shift between day and night was nearly nonexistent, and for that, the change in Rei was near the same. She had returned to consciousness, had no claim of want to sleep, and for this time given, all she would attempt would be a productivity of goals. Of abstract designs based in theories. It was not that Rei had any clear plan in mind, any sharp focus to hold to.

It was only that she needed to move. Needed to prove that she was useful, if only but in flimsy ways, walls of support paper thin that would break at a touch. Yes. She would move. And perhaps in doing so, she would be able to come to terms with her continued existence.