damned_institute | Day 72: Sun Room (2nd shift)

After eating breakfast, Lloyd gathered up his journal and pencil and followed his nurse out of the cafeteria. He made a quick stop at the bulletin to leave a note for Lee, then let her lead him on to take his shower with the rest of the adult men. Not sure how old Lee was, Lloyd kept his eyes peeled for him just in case, but again he didn't catch even a glimpse of his friend's shiny black bowl-cut hair. Okay, no worries. Maybe he was with the kids in Arts and Crafts.

Cleaning up quickly, Lloyd grabbed a towel and dried himself off, then got dressed and headed back to the Sun Room to wait out the rest of the shift. His nurse hovered at his side until he'd situated himself at a table, then she backed up and withdrew to the edge of the room to keep an eye on him from there. He was fine with that. Of course, it would have been better if she left the room completely, but at least she was far enough back that it felt like he had at least some privacy.

While he waited, trying to catch sight of Lee, he pulled his journal back out. As far as he knew, no one else had been to the third floor before. There weren't any maps yet. That was something he could fix. Picking up where he'd left off, the teen went back to his work on the sketch.

[For Tsurugi.]

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"I don't know for certain, but that seems to be the case," Kyousuke nodded. They hadn't confirmed it, but it looked like a safe bet it was them. Sora had thought so, too. He was a little surprised to hear Lloyd's whole group got notes, too, though. Somehow he hadn't quite expected that many people to be getting them. "... Maybe," he thought out loud. "Or at least, my whole group did."

As for Farwell... "A friend of mine ended up waking up there, and was able to make his way back here," he responded quietly, making sure the staff couldn't hear him. "I don't know the way, but he should. But they already know what's happening here, and they're doing what they can." Like with the radios, and the information on the third floor.

That caught Lloyd attention. "You mean he escaped? How?" His brow furrowed. "Why would he come back? Isn't it hard enough just to get out of this place?" It didn't make sense. Unless... Unless getting out once meant that Tsurugi's friend knew he could get out again. In fact, thinking about it more, Lloyd would probably do the exact same thing. "Did he come back to help get other people out?"

Obviously, the rebels hadn't successfully stopped what was going on here yet, but the fact that someone else was out there fighting to help them was a comforting one. People weren't just sitting back and letting this place get away with doing such horrible things. "What's your friend's name?" Maybe Lloyd could talk to him and find out a little bit more.

Kyousuke hesitated when Lloyd asked how Sora ended up in Farwell; that wasn't something he was prepared to talk about. It just didn't feel right coming out and saying that he died. Kyousuke got the feeling Sora wouldn't mind if he told someone, but that didn't mean he wanted to. The situation may have resolved itself, but in the end, it was still something of a sore spot for Kyousuke.

"... He didn't escape, exactly," Kyousuke explained. "There were certain circumstances, and he ended up waking up there." That was a little vague, but it wasn't a lie, either, which was the best he could manage. "He said they found him there, and then he made his way back to make sure everyone knew he was okay. ... But I'm not sure just getting there really counts as leaving. Even if you're there, we still have to find a way to get home." That meant staying here and finding that archive on the third floor, or at least, that what his note had said.

"His name's Sora. I can try to introduce you, if you want," he offered. If he could, at least. He wasn't sure sure when Sora might be leaving again.

He frowned at the explanation, mulling it over in his head. How could someone escape but not escape? How could Tsurugi's friend just wake up there? Maybe it was something he'd have to ask the guy himself. It could be Tsurugi just didn't know.

As for the point he'd just made... "I didn't think about it like that. If the way back home is somewhere in here, you're right. We'd have to come back to find it." That was a somewhat discouraging thought. It meant that trying to escape from the building wouldn't be as useful as he'd thought. Not unless he could find something on the outside that would help him when he made it back inside. "Still, if I find a chance to escape, I'll take it. There's got to be something we can do out there."

The offer made him smile. He nodded, appreciating it for what it was. "If a chance comes up, I'd like that." Lloyd knew as well as Tsurugi did that things like that weren't always easy to arrange with the strict eye the nurses kept on their patients. "Sora, huh..." He mentally made note of the name.

"... I see. It's worth a shot," Kyousuke agreed. It made sense to want to leave with the option there, and to tell the truth, he wanted to check things out, himself. But still. "I'll probably stick around. There's things I have to take care of here." Or rather, there were people he had to keep safe, and they had to be a higher priority than just doing whatever he wanted.

He'd have to try and see if he could get Lloyd and Sora together sometime, but for the time being, they'd have to separate, since the nurses were beginning to round everyone up. He gave Lloyd a nod, before his own nurse came to take him lunch.

Day 72: Sun Room (2nd shift)

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