The camera clicks on to a view of Nanao in a rather different outfit to before - instead of the kimono or black shihakushou, she's wearing green tracksuit pants, and a navy vest. She's also leaning over a bed, and her back obscures whatever is resting on it.
"Shh, shh, you'll be alright." She sounds exhausted, and her trousers are damp and dirty.
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You were out in the storms, weren't you?
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When she speaks, her voice is hoarse.}
It wasn't too bad for the first few days, but yesterday... Yesterday was terrible.
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I'm aware. Have the nurses said how good his chances are?
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He'd wandered off - he does that a lot - and we'd just settled down for a break, and then there was this screaming...
{Her hands clench into fists, white-knuckle tight, and her voice goes tight and broken}
It was a Qwilfish, at levels too powerful for any of mine to fight it off alone - let alone Renji...!
{A thin trickle of blood drips out from her clenched fists. She doesn't notice.}
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Ah - they think his chances are good, but he's just so small...
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Sometimes the smallest of us are the strongest.
[...hi, cliche. But hey, Ken's not the biggest guy himself.]
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I hope so, but... It was a Level 40, and Renji is new hatched. They still don't know what kind of after-effects it will have on him as he grows, because the poison was just so strong.
They said if I hadn't run as fast as I did, he probably wouldn't have made it.
{Neither's Nanao - but even so, there's only so much punishment a body can take before it fails}
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