It was true, the picture of the butterfly was the only clue they had so far, and Leanne was doubtlessly scared, but…
Tsubaki let her lunch bag hang from her arm, reaching out with both hands to hold one of Leanne’s. If she added the days up, it’d only been about a week since they’d met, but it’d been a long month of watching people be hurt and sometimes disappear entirely. She didn’t want to watch what people were left suffer over this callous experiment. It was enough watching.
“I understand your feelings,” she said, “and finding a way to make you better is the most important thing. But we should figure out what’s in there before doing something drastic. Like… we can take a picture of your stomach like the people on the bulletin board did, right? Maybe you don’t have anything that needs taking out. The Head Doctor only said some people are going to get really sick.”
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Tsubaki let her lunch bag hang from her arm, reaching out with both hands to hold one of Leanne’s. If she added the days up, it’d only been about a week since they’d met, but it’d been a long month of watching people be hurt and sometimes disappear entirely. She didn’t want to watch what people were left suffer over this callous experiment. It was enough watching.
“I understand your feelings,” she said, “and finding a way to make you better is the most important thing. But we should figure out what’s in there before doing something drastic. Like… we can take a picture of your stomach like the people on the bulletin board did, right? Maybe you don’t have anything that needs taking out. The Head Doctor only said some people are going to get really sick.”