For what little luck he'd had in finding those he was looking for, finding Tsubaki standing against the wall to the next area seemed almost too good to be true. Chances were that it was - Tsubaki seemed to be positioned with purpose. She could just as easily have been looking for someone other than himself.

"You gunna stand there the whole time?" he asked her calmly as he came up. With a look over his shoulder at the soldiers, he came to a stop himself, wondering why it was the soldiers were giving them this kind of freedom. The nurses had treated them more like cattle than anything else. Now it nearly felt like he could go where he pleased, within certain boundaries.