Day 32: Sun Room (2nd shift)

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After the couple glasses of water Leon managed to gulp down during breakfast, the mage felt immensely better. He was still a bit tired, but that was nothing a little lounging on one of the sofas wouldn't cure. Stretching his arms above his head, he couldn't help but wish he'd had the chance to grab one of his new doctor's coats before leaving his room that morning. Maybe they would have let him get away with wearing it. Maybe.

He grabbed an empty sofa, pulling out the journal he tried to keep on him at all times. It was nearly complete now. Just a couple more pages to go. It might not improve his spellcasting that much, but any improvement was better than none. It was getting to where it might be too dangerous for him to use spells at all, if it left him so worn out without even finishing a monster off.

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Diva's delight got no reaction from Hiei; the demon glanced towards the nurse, ensuring she was satisfied enough with his interaction to leave him alone. He couldn't care less how delighted Diva got over the conversation. So long as the human left him alone, he was fine.

"I've never heard of Chiropterans." Nor was he impressed to hear of them now, if his voice was any indication. He looked at the woman from the corners of his vision, a slight smirk playing on his lips. At least she recognized his strength through this ability to taste, even restrained as it was in their prison. "I'm strong." It was with no small pride that Hiei said those words. He'd worked and suffered to earn his strength. Of course he was proud of it, even if he wasn't the strongest demon.

That was just a matter of time.

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She smiled too, and it was sweet. "But not strong enough to keep away from the humans." Contrary to how it sounded, Diva didn’t consider that a blow to her own ability. After all, she’d been here before, where the humans tried to manipulate or kill her. And she’d gotten free, then. She’d do the same here.

"Amshel’s a scientist, he likes to talk about this stuff. Chiroptera are the strongest things alive--if they don’t obey him, then they’re close to death. You might like it." Although he wasn’t the most interesting toy she’d ever seen, he had funny hair, very odd. "You’d probably get killed, though."

She wasn’t sure if her Chevaliers would take well to him. Probably not.

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In so many ways Diva's words were a low blow, a trap that Hiei had walked into. Now the demon turned to face the woman beside him, but only to scowl at her. "I'll escape this prison soon enough. It's only a matter of time before I leave this place in ashes."

His right arm ached to do so, the dragon on his skin still dark even if it didn't pulse with power as it once had. A matter of time.

But Diva was still prattling on, and...was she actually thinking of trying to turn Hiei into one of those Chiropertan things? Her out-loud ponderings were met with a scoff, Hiei not having to consider it at all. "I like being a demon. And I take orders from no one." At least not in any sense that counted. Going where the nurses directed him was all part of biding his time, and avoiding the sedation that was a bigger annoyance than anything else Hiei had experienced in this place.

"Besides," Hiei crossed his arms over his chest, once again turning away from the woman. "You didn't even know what demons were until a minute ago. Don't assume they couldn't easily destroy your precious Chiropterans."

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Oh ho, hot tempers reminded her of little children that puffed their cheeks and got all huffy. Like Carl, before Solomon soothed his temper, like water on fire.

"So will I. But not before they‘re all dead," Diva added for Hiei‘s benefit. Silly boy. “I don’t take orders, either, but that’s because I’m a Queen. You don’t have an excuse--you’re mortal. Chiropterans can’t die, not unless me or Saya-neesama kills them. Can you be killed by anything, or only by your twin?" She then touched her chin, thinking again. "Wait, you're male too. That must make you weaker than a female, right?"

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What Hiei had heard before, what Diva said after, none of it mattered after she mentioned two simple words.

Your twin.

Hiei had told no one there, not even Kurikara about his sister. The only one who could have known that had been there was Kurama, and the fox wouldn't tell random strangers that secret. So how could Diva possibly know about Yukina, that she not only existed, but that she and Hiei were twins?

The demon didn't know, but he would find out.

The scowl was little compared to the look Diva got as Hiei turned to her again. His jaw clenched tight, he leaned close, a dangerous fire lurking in his eyes. "How do you know about her? Who told you?" Whoever they were, Hiei would find them and rip them apart. This woman too, regardless of how immortal she thought she was, unless she answered quickly.

Sedation, nurses, none of it would stop Hiei when it came to the matter of protecting Yukina.

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The Chiropteran shrugged, unaffected by the change. "The only powerful things are born as twins. So they balance." Of course, the only real case of that were the Chiropteran Queens, exactly two twin females born to every previous Queen that managed to become pregnant and deliver.

Hiei wasn’t as strong as that, and he was male, but his blood told her he was just strong enough that he hadn’t been turned by anything or anyone. Just born that way.

And to her, it was the only birthing that really made sense. Maybe she was wrong though, and he really was weak.