Day 63: Germaine Street (Morning)

[lighthearted]

Sora was glad that he'd had the chance to check up with a club member first thing in the morning, and while that in itself helped his mood, he couldn't muster up quite the same amount of energy as he normally did when he was feeling under the weather like this. Eating would have done him some good, but he still didn't have the appetite for it, and so he was still carrying his brown bag with him as he exited the bus and bid farewell to Kratos.

Doyleton looked the same as it always did, except this time it wasn't blanketed with snow. While Sora had enjoyed that the last time, he was glad there hadn't been a repeat this time around. Not when he was already feeling ill.

With his energy levels at such a low, it was hard to figure out where he wanted to go or what he wanted to do. Maybe he should spend his day looking for gifts for friends again? Riku might want something, although Sora was sort of at a loss for what to buy him. The cold air felt good on his feverish face for the moment, but he realized that was probably going to change pretty soon.

He flipped through his coupons, but they were the same as always and didn't give him much of an idea of what to do with his day. He'd never had a massage before, but with how his body felt kind of achy and tired, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea...

[For Tsubaki.]

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[thecamellia]

“I have it mostly memorized,” she said. “I could write it down. But it went something like: ‘...monitored transmissions from planet 48-71 show no signs of hostility; however, we have detected use of a new code that will take some time to break. No traces of communication with the home planet's rebel factions yet, but we will continue to survey the situation until further notice... We have considered organizing reconnaissance missions on planet 48-71 using Next Wave subjects, but current evaluations show they are not ready. Keep them here for the time being.’

“That’s about all we could make out,” she finished.

[lighthearted]

Memorized? Well, that was impressive! Sora felt bad at the same time, though, since that probably meant that Tsubaki had recited this to others so many times that she knew it by heart now. Still, he made sure to listen closely, though in the end he couldn't make much sense of what she told him.

"Planet 48-71... I wonder what that is. It doesn't sound like it's this one, if they wanted to send us to it to do recon..." He put a hand to the back of his head, scratching through his hair as he thought it through. "So some of the rebels, they're from a different planet?" It was hard to know anything for sure with such a small amount of information to go off of, but it gave him something to think about if nothing else.

Sora paused outside of the grocer, realizing that they'd run out of time. He needed to go inside and focus on writing up a couple of notes, which would be pretty boring for Tsubaki to stand around for. "Well, thanks for telling me. I'll try to keep it in mind. I should probably get inside now." He gave her a wave and smiled. "Have a good trip, okay? And thanks for looking out for me so much."

[thecamellia]

“That’s what I thought, too, that they’re keeping tabs on more worlds than just this one,” she said to Sora. “If that’s the case, maybe whatever battle is happening between the two sides is happening across worlds. And there are rebel groups in each of them.”

The ongoing mystery of their situation was both interesting and frustrating to talk about with other prisoners. But the information they’d gotten off the disc was particularly interesting since she hadn’t had the chance to tell many people about it; Sora’s opinion was definitely one she’d wanted to get in time. Still, as determined as he was to ignore it, Sora was still feeling under the weather. She didn’t want to overwhelm him with such a heavy discussion.

Given that, perhaps giving Sora time to do his business inside the grocery store was the best plan? She couldn’t invite herself along everywhere and he probably had a lot on his mind already without her adding to it. Internally, she nodded to herself, decided on the matter. There would be time to check up on him later.

“Of course, go ahead! I’ll see you later!” She smiled a little bit at his final comment. “What are friends for.”

The prisoners might not have had their homes or their families, but… well, they had friends, right?

“You try to have a good trip, too. Bye!”