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♥ v2

A cold, delicate hand grabs yours and pulls. It pulls, and it pulls... there's a sense of urgency in this icy grasp, as well as a trace of reluctance. Abruptly the hand let's go, right as your vision fades to black, and for a brief moment, only a brief moment, your senses disappear. There's only the eerie sensation of weightlessness before your feet are settled back on solid ground again.

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[takes a minute to register anything, groaning as he wakes up, then taking a few deeps breaths in and out, trying to get a grip on himself... only after a good few moments of that does he notice her]

H... Hail...?

The nurse, wearing an appropriate outfit (or inappropriate—should nurses really have thigh-high boots like that?) looks over you, now holding a bandage.

"Thunder. Please hold still."

What... is all this?

[but he doesn't move, like she says]

As she speaks, she secures a bandage on his face; it's small, like she's treating a cut.

"This is the trauma center. Ah, the new one."

Trauma center? ... What happened to the old one?

"Simple relocation. When the one in charge of this room died, I had to come over here as soon as possible."

D-Died...? Who, and why?

"The who: the Hail who was in charge of coping... as well as an unofficial task she took on herself."

There's a beat.

"The why: ...that is unknown. I found her dead in the garden not long ago."

Outside—then it must've been the person I ran into!

The nurse's eyebrows rise.

"The person...?"

That's how I—[stops before he actually gets out the word "died"] Anyway, I was trying to get something down from a tree, and then they suddenly attacked me!

"Ah... the assailant. I never heard of anyone like that in this heart."

Well they sure exist. Damn...

[starting to get up]

Anyway, I have to go back there! I was so close to getting one of the parts I was supposed to get!

The nurse places a hand over his chest to push him back down.

"What are you talking about? You must rest."

[pushing against her hand grumpily]

I made a promise, I don't have time to rest!

i clearly know how perspectives work

"Won't you just die again? Something was strange about your leg, too..."

... Ah... yeah. After I kicked her...

"A kick... did that?"

[nods]

I didn't expect something like that either.

"...now I'm interested. But I refuse to go out there and explore. My place is here, in the trauma center."

The very large trauma center.

Edited 2013-07-31 02:08 (UTC)

It's fine. Like I said, I'll check it out for you.

[at least trying to put his feet on the ground... but are his legs still messed up?]

They are not! In fact, you'll find that the leg that was hurt earlier is easy to stand on again.

"...if you say so. If you die again, I'll be here."

[exhales slowly, saying it to himself as much as he is to her]

I made a promise, and if this is really Hail's heart, I want to fix things here. Sitting around won't help anything.

"...okay. But be cautious outside. It may not be worth it."

... I'll try. But I'm pretty sure it's worth not giving up.

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