Nightshift 60: Main Hallway, 2-Center

[ninelivesonce]

[from here]

The main balcony was an extremely hard place to defend -- big glass windows, looking out onto stars that twinkled through the atmosphere, the often-occupied room below, and the doors that were locked to patients -- or locked to most patients, as the case might be -- but not to the staff that lurked behind them

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[melodists]

[From here]

As for their previous topic, Mikado proved he had some additions for the Melodist to mull over. 'Magic' wasn't a regular term in Auldrant, but from the way it had been phrased, she opted to assume it held the same weight as their fonic artes and the science of fonons. Despite the subject matter, her answer came surprisingly easy.

"It may be different ways of doing things," she said. "Or making use of resources that are there. I would imagine Auldrant would have been a great deal like Earth if we had access to the same resources. The same could be said of the person you spoke to." A pause. "It's something to consider, I think."

[ofthemotions]

He acquiesced easily and followed after her, listening as she spoke. A different way of doing things. Said like that, simplified, it was simple to believe. Mikado stared downward in thought as they walked, either oblivious to the risks or trusting enough in Tear to watch out for them. If he held to what he thought before... Placed magic as a resource, like both Tear and Tolten said.... Mikado's only hesitance came in the form of Izaya. The man did not seem wholly convinced, and for that, Mikado gave pause. He believed Tolten, for the most part, and Tear was utterly competent and rational, and Mikado himself wanted to believe....

It was something he needed to hold off on deciding. He didn't have enough information, and therefore, could not make any choices regarding it. He gave a small nod to her. "...Right."

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