Dayshift 52: Doctor’s Office 1 (Dr. Yumeno) [second shift]

[thisboyprince]

Daedalus did not leave things undone to the very last unless it was for a specific purpose, and so long before he was required to resume sessions face-to-face with the patients, he had already spent ample time organizing his data. It was what he was here for. It was what he excelled at. And so that was what he did. His time outside the hospital had

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[mugenreppa]

"Have you done that investigation?" Mele asked as she took a seat, arms crossed. "Do you believe in the special counseling now? Or are you going to pretend you don't?"

How much it mattered, Mele wasn't prepared to say. A doctor, a perpetrator of the fake identities, was an insider, who could affect things. On the other hand...he was an insider. Who knew how much he pretended? Mele had never seen fit to learn all the little quirks and signifiers that told if someone else was lying.

Worse, she realized belatedly, she'd already given away that she knew about it. No, she decided a moment later, something that Landel taunted them about so openly couldn't be that much of a secret. "Learn anything new at all?" she added, a note of condescension slipping though into her tone.

[thisboyprince]

Ah, Daedalus thought, the moment the door opened to emit the two women, someone is still set on their curiosity.

The questions came abruptly, like the first punch in a fight, though diving into their previous discussion straight away didn’t precisely throw him for a loop. His perch was a little too solid for that. Even so, he might’ve been the only one to recognize as much, given that he had a strong impression of a superior ordering her employee. His brows lifted somewhat in wonder and then settled again, but he didn’t say anything.

A servant of truth, huh.

When he was sure she was finished, and he did speak, it was not with the same snappiness. "After we parted last time, I didn’t get the sense you cared what I said or believed," Daedalus ventured. "I should be asking if you were investigating."

[mugenreppa]

"Something wrong with changing my mind?" Mele answered. "And anyway, what would I have to investigate? You're the doctor."

And that pause before he'd answered, like he'd been patient, kind of pissed her off. Did all doctors did that or just him? Didn't make her feel any better about it, though.

"I have another question this time," she went on, without waiting for the answers to her previous questions. If he was just going to wait after she talked, she might as well get it all out. "Sleep studies. What do they do? What are they for?"

[thisboyprince]

Quaint, such logic. Here, it could be argued that he was treated with more regard--and suspicion in equal parts--than he ever was at home, which was almost amusing, given the difference in status.

But which point to take up first?

From Daedalus’ perspective, her final question was not that far removed from her other ones. The sleep studies were another link in the chain. "The sleep studies? They seem to have been in effect before I arrived here and by all accounts appear to be what they sound like." But of course Daedalus knew where this was going. By all accounts, no one within the patient population would trust that the sleep studies were so harmless and self-explanatory. "Do you believe they have to do with what you told me before?"