Day 62: Sun Room (Second Shift)

[complicatedliar]

The line of questioning that Rita had begun at breakfast still plagued Loki, as did his own uncomfortable feelings about the entire concept of people being transformed into monsters. It wasn't a useful line of thought, and he needed a better direction to consider.

Hopefully, conversation with Soma would provide that. While she seemed quite stern at times, Loki found her presence oddly relaxing.

Though he had to wonder if perhaps he wouldn't end up seeing her this shift after all, since she might be included in the group that was being herded to the showers. (As much as the statement also was one he greeted with relief, since he was wondering when he'd get an opportunity to bathe. The thought of being trapped in a building with a great many mortals and no bathing facilities had been too horrifying to contemplate.) He'd always been a bit bad at guessing the ages of mortals, mostly because they were so ridiculously short-lived.

Having already established a neurotic fear of the cold with his nurse, there was no difficulty convincing her that he'd be much better off in the Sun Room. Loki settled into his habitual seat, taking a moment to coax one of the cats into his lap. All settled in, he propped his notebook on the arm of the chair and went back to writing.

[Soma?]

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[not_heavens_adam]

"Just the sunlight~" Johnny turned a small but honest smile onto the woman he shared the couch with. Had he been himself, he would have smelled her, sensed her presence without thinking, heard her heart beating in her chest...as nice as some of the changes were, the loss of his sharp senses was still a bit unsettling. He'd have to make up for it by being more observant than usual.

Her second question confused him, though, and he decided not to hide this from her. Better to gain information for now before deciding what to do with it. "I'm not certain I know what you mean. I don't remember falling asleep...I merely woke up in this place this morning. I assume it to be some sort of prison for non-humans or something of the sort." Was he wrong? It wasn't like he had a whole lot to go on other than he wasn't dreaming and the people here were most definitely not insane. The 'patients' weren't, at least.

[selfnighted]

Investigating the courtyard would have to come later, Maya noted. Possibly even at night, when she wouldn't be able to easily the discern the layout of the outdoors area, but that issue would have to come after she reached her destination, a goal she was having trouble with recently. For now, however....

The idea was intriguing. Maya hadn't thought about the prospect of the asylum being a prison for so-called 'non-humans'—she'd assumed it was a human institution because that's what everyone looked like. However, the general had made it clear that what he and his operation wanted were abilities of some sort, and the reason he'd taken over was due to his dissatisfaction with Landel to that end, if what the general said could be taken at face value. In light of that motive, it hardly mattered if the patients were humans or otherwise.

"Prison, yes. Of a sort. Convincing, is it not?" Maya smiled at the thought. "But be careful at night. The head doctor fancies himself a mad scientist then, and us, the rats."

[not_heavens_adam]

"So he likes experimentation. That shouldn't surprise me." Not for this sort of scenario. If you weren't going to train and utilize monsters what else did you do with them but torture and experiment? In some sick, twisted, way it made sense.

It made him wonder if he'd go back to normal at night, if his powers and abilities would be returned to the way they should be. Part of him rationalized that you couldn't have accurate results when testing monsters otherwise, but the more sick part of him figured 'why risk it?' If you had monsters where you wanted them, you didn't give them a chance to escape.

He turned his attention back to the woman and gave her one of his more charming smiles. "If you don't mind my asking, my lady~ What species are you?" Maybe if he could figure out what kind of creatures they were keeping here he'd have a better feel for the place in general.