It wasn't that Allen doubted they would escape or that Renji would make the doctor pay for the things he'd done to the patients here, but it still helped to hear it from someone else. Allen smiled back, small and hopeful and nowhere near as ferocious as Renji's. "I wouldn't doubt it," he assured. "And I'm not going to give up, don't worry." It was much easier to feel confident when he had a full stomach and was no longer being plagued by that strange tattoo.

The other news was a little more disconcerting. There were people that could read minds?! "Oh dear," he mumbled, his cheeks gaining a little more color. So that was what the man on the bulletin board had meant when he said he knew if someone was lying or not. But he hadn't thought he was! He liked Rinali of course, they were friends! But... but the man seemed to suggest that the way he felt about her was more than simple friends or co-workers. And if that was the case... it was going to make things much more difficult. What was he going to say the next time he spoke with her?! He couldn't trouble her with something like that! Not here of all places! "That... complicates things."