Day 69: Sun Room (3rd Shift)

[redcladidealist]

Tomatoes in both choices. Lloyd's face fell the moment he heard the announcement, and with a groan he let his forehead thunk against the table in the Sun Room. He couldn't even ask if he could have a sandwich made without tomatoes in it. The lunches were already made, his nurse holding one of each in her hands. Unhappily, he accepted the one that had meat. Maybe something could be salvaged from it.

Ignoring his nurse's cheerful parting words to enjoy his meal, the teen waited until she'd stepped away before he took his lunch out of the bag and started picking it apart - only to freeze, heart pounding unevenly. A deep, rattling breath had just- Lloyd didn't even finish the thought. Something was here! He whipped around, not even sure how he was going to defend himself. The only thing he had was one of those plastic spoon-forks, and if he was up against that same thing they'd run from last night-

There was nothing. Nothing but nurses and patients passing by. Not even any cats. No one else looked like they'd even heard anything. Lloyd's eyes darted around, but still nothing showed up.

Come on, I know I heard it...

[For Ed and Al!]

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[redcladidealist]

Lloyd shook his head. "You don't have to worry about me. My Dad made sure I had a Key Crest before he ever let me even touch the Exsphere. I can take mine off without any problem. I just... I can't yet." He jabbed his salad again, frustrated. "I'm not strong enough without it to do the things that need to be done. I still need it to save my world." But as soon as the world was safe and reunited, he swore, he swore he'd find a way to make it so no one ever needed to rely on Exspheres ever again. Not even him.

"Magic?" He echoed the word with a frown, rolling it over in his mind. "As far as I know, there isn't any magic that can take an Exsphere off. The closest I've ever seen is..." He trailed off. The sudden thought all but caught him off guard. Could that...? "I have a friend who knows a healing technique. She saved someone who'd become an Exbelua. One of those monsters. I don't know if it would help, but... Maybe..." He suddenly, desperately, wanted to talk to Kratos.

[fullmetalheart]

Ed chewed on his food as he mulled over what Lloyd was saying. "I'm afraid I don't know enough about your world to give you any intelligent advice. Sorry."

[armoredsoul]

"It sounds like something worth pursuing, though," Al added encouragingly. "Do you have anyone here you can ask about it?"

[redcladidealist]

"I... Maybe." He didn't know if Kratos would have any idea if Raine's technique would be any help. He wasn't even sure Kratos would tell him even if the man knew anything. Still, he had to try. "There's someone else from my world here, but I don't know if he'd know if it'd work. I'll have to ask him next time I see him." And that was really the most he could do about it right now.

Lifting a bite of salad to his mouth, he chewed, then quickly swallowed. Blegh. Maybe it didn't have tomatoes, but that didn't mean it was all that great either. Even so, he found himself wolfing it down. Hey, he was hungry, and something was better than nothing. Besides, he half-expected the nurses to start moving in to collect them any minute now. They'd spent a lot of time talking during lunch. The shift was probably near over.

[fullmetalheart]

"Hopefully you'll be able to get information out of him," Ed said before settling in to finish wolfing down his own food.