When someone answered the question that had been directed at nobody, Anise froze. Somebody heard her talking like that? Ack... Anise wasn't supposed to show that side of herself to others, especially not to strangers!
Eager to cover up her little slip-up, Anise snatched one of the buckets of soap water and shot up to her full height, making the water slosh precariously against the edges of the bucket. To the man who'd replied to her, she offered a sweet, cutesy smile. "Eheh... I guess that's true. They're pretty scary, huh?"
It was then that she got a look at the stranger, with his thin build and dark circles under his eyes. His posture kind of sucked, too. He didn't look like the healthiest guy, to be sure. His uniform was the same one that Anise and all the other patients had been forced into, but she found her eyes drawn to the little badge on his hat. M-U...?
"Hey, you got one too!" Anise tapped one of the pins on her own beret to show what she was talking about. It seemed like some patients had none, some had one, and a few had two like she did... so they probably meant something. "What do you suppose they're for?" If she'd had more than a second or two to look at her own, Anise might have been able to decipher them, but with so much to take in this morning, and the hurry that the soldiers were in, it was only now that she had a chance to think about it.
/applause
Eager to cover up her little slip-up, Anise snatched one of the buckets of soap water and shot up to her full height, making the water slosh precariously against the edges of the bucket. To the man who'd replied to her, she offered a sweet, cutesy smile. "Eheh... I guess that's true. They're pretty scary, huh?"
It was then that she got a look at the stranger, with his thin build and dark circles under his eyes. His posture kind of sucked, too. He didn't look like the healthiest guy, to be sure. His uniform was the same one that Anise and all the other patients had been forced into, but she found her eyes drawn to the little badge on his hat. M-U...?
"Hey, you got one too!" Anise tapped one of the pins on her own beret to show what she was talking about. It seemed like some patients had none, some had one, and a few had two like she did... so they probably meant something. "What do you suppose they're for?" If she'd had more than a second or two to look at her own, Anise might have been able to decipher them, but with so much to take in this morning, and the hurry that the soldiers were in, it was only now that she had a chance to think about it.