Day 69: Breakfast

[envy_the_sinners]

Scar scowled, both relieved and angry that he had woken up once again in his own bed. That lanky man who had become his new roommate on the night of his death was sound asleep one bed over.

This was coming to be the new "normal." It was infuriating.

As always, he begrudgingly followed his nurse into the cafeteria and took a seat. He preferred to file in with the majority of the patients in order to avoid sticking out, but no such luck this morning.

Scar stared at his food rather than starting in on it, despite the newly found appetite that had been lost thanks to that blasted sickness. He had a lot to think about. He hadn't managed to find Frank last night. The damn intercom had beaten him to it. And judging by Tsubaki's reaction to him, he had been out for at least a day's time. How many had noticed? Cared? It couldn't have been many.

But it was the few who did whose detection Scar was desperate to avoid.

[Eddyyyy!]

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[his_legacy]

"I have never heard of California, either." It wasn't surprising by any stretch.

"I come from a small village, where I worked on a ranch. It was nothing like here, that is for certain. Or technology was different, I suppose." Landel's Institute was so far advanced from Hyrule's that Link could not even tell that this place was thousands of years ahead of his home. It all just seemed like magic to him, even though Alphonse had explained how elektrisity worked.

[impudentsongbird]

Gabe grinned. "Then we've each got something new to share, don't we?"

That was good. Gabe enjoyed meeting new people, hearing new things--and the latter really didn't happen very often. It was hard to hear things he didn't already know when he'd been around for as long as he had.

"What sort of ranch was it?" he asked. "What did you do there?" He could guess the technology-level. There was something charming about the days long past, but then again, that was coming from the perspective of not needing to worry about most of the things that made life a few centuries ago so uncomfortable.

[his_legacy]

"Of course." Link returned the smile. He didn't feel right, talking about pointless things like their homes when there was essentially a war going on, but what could they do during the day?

"It was small. I herded goats, mostly, as well as helping with maintenance of the fences and the barn." It had rarely been hard work; Ordonians were very laid back people.