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screwthegods ([personal profile] screwthegods) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2008-07-30 09:03 am

Day 34: Breakfast

[starting off in M13]

The last part of the night was little more than a blur in Homura's mind. The men had rushed in, but not joined them, instead staying off to themselves. Before any of them had a chance to react, however, a voice sounded through the air, mocking some other person Homura had never heard of, and the patients themselves.

To Homura, whoever that man was, he sounded a great deal like a god.

But before he could ask questions, the demi-god found himself no longer in the chapel, but some strange room on a bed. Is that what Kenren had meant from his earlier warning? Homura sat up, glad at least that the world didn't spin when he did so. Then the same man from before began to speak again, with a completely different tone. It was confusing to hear him talk that way, calling them patients instead of prisoners as he had before. Homura listened quietly as the announcement was made, then got out of bed.

Maybe he wouldn't have to go anywhere yet. It wasn't like Homura knew where to go anyway, and that meant he had time. If this was his room, and if he had been here as long as Kenren had said, there was a chance he could find something with answers. The Taisho had even told him that Homura had seen Rinrei. Certainly he would've written something down, made a map, something that could let him find her again! He started with the desk at the end of his bed, first finding a small stack of notebooks. Picking up the first, he flipped through, turning the pages with quickening desperation as he found each one to be blank.

[identity profile] forthewinry.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Winry knew he was trying to make her feel better before dropping the likely truth on her, but still, she clenched as he called her 'sweetheart'. Like he was her father. She... she had a father! She did!

"It's not- It's different... yes! Yes, he came back to his senses," She would have reasoned that it was perhaps self defense in the face of an admittedly strong interceptor, but her emotions interfered with that. She wanted him alive. It was something she hadn't admitted to herself in years. She wanted mom and dad back.

[identity profile] felled-hero.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll do some poking around for you," Hughes said, because that was unusual. And hey, he knew this place could screw with people. Do things to them. There was definitely something wrong about the whole situation, but...

He wasn't sure quite what it was yet.

"I know some folks who have a more professional insight into what this place does, so I'll ask them about the experiments they do here. And about some of the monsters, see if we can figure out exactly what happened."

[identity profile] forthewinry.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Rubbing her eyes, Winry calmed down slowly and nodded.

"I'll help you," she said, not an offer but an insistence, "If I'd only known before..." She hesitated, not wanting to scold him for having gotten into trouble for all his snooping- he was a grown man for godssake, and it was a sensitive subject, having killed him and all, but- "If I'd known... I would have at least been able to thank you."

She looked at him directly, "Thank you." For everything. For helping Ed and Al. For helping her. It was hard to explain just how she felt about this man of whom she rightfully knew so little. How much he'd helped all of them, beyond their knowledge.