Rita's pen stopped for a moment when she heard a man speaking to her. Normally she'd completely tune out any voices around her while doing research, but with the room relatively empty that morning, it wasn't so easy to ignore her surroundings. She glanced up at the person who'd addressed her, and gave a small snort. "Hmph. You mean how they're pretending to pretend to be a normal institute now? It's pretty stupid if you ask me."
To his question, Rita gave a slight shrug of the shoulders, indicating that she didn't care too much either way. She was almost done recording what she learned from the object Taura brought to her last night, and the man wasn't so disruptive that she couldn't finish writing while he was there.
Since there were plenty of other seats around, Rita supposed the stranger might be interested in conversation. While she wasn't much of a conversationalist herself, Rita knew by now that the other patients were the best source of information there was in the institute - books and staff members were pretty much useless.
Without looking up from her journal, she asked after a pause, "That announcement this morning... It's the same one we heard a week ago, isn't it?" That was assuming this man was around back then, but this was one way to find out whether he was new or not.
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Rita's pen stopped for a moment when she heard a man speaking to her. Normally she'd completely tune out any voices around her while doing research, but with the room relatively empty that morning, it wasn't so easy to ignore her surroundings. She glanced up at the person who'd addressed her, and gave a small snort. "Hmph. You mean how they're pretending to pretend to be a normal institute now? It's pretty stupid if you ask me."
To his question, Rita gave a slight shrug of the shoulders, indicating that she didn't care too much either way. She was almost done recording what she learned from the object Taura brought to her last night, and the man wasn't so disruptive that she couldn't finish writing while he was there.
Since there were plenty of other seats around, Rita supposed the stranger might be interested in conversation. While she wasn't much of a conversationalist herself, Rita knew by now that the other patients were the best source of information there was in the institute - books and staff members were pretty much useless.
Without looking up from her journal, she asked after a pause, "That announcement this morning... It's the same one we heard a week ago, isn't it?" That was assuming this man was around back then, but this was one way to find out whether he was new or not.