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Day 37: Breakfast
[for Sylar, I believe]
At the sound of the intercom, Wally jerked awake and blinked around at the room. He’d fallen asleep. He should have been up and keeping an eye open for ZEX, but he’d fallen asleep waiting on his bed.
“Idiot,” he groaned, ruffling his hair and sighing in annoyance. “Way to help a guy out, hotshot.” Hopefully ZEX hadn’t dropped by and thought he’d left or something, or wouldn’t be too mad at him for just forgetting about it like that. If he was lucky, he’d be able to catch up with the other patient at some point and explain what had happened.
Rolling himself a little awkwardly out of the bed, Wally took the opportunity to stretch his injured leg and test how well it was holding up. It was feeling a bit better, not so much that he could abandon his crutch or that it didn’t pull painfully if he wasn’t careful, but better. Tony had apparently made it through the night in one piece as well, which was a relief. He really didn’t feel comfortable about the thought of his roommate wandering about on his own with an injured arm. Not when Wally himself could relax and fall asleep in the apparent safety of their room.
Yeah, he wasn’t going to let himself forget that one in a hurry.
It was at that moment that the door swung open to admit one of the nurses. She seemed surprised to find him awake and ready to go already, but smiled warmly. “Hungry, are we Mr. West? Well in that case, let’s get you to the cafeteria. The staff have provided some delicious French Toast as well as a range of other foods I’m sure you’ll like. Now will you be needing a hand with your leg, dear?”
“No thanks, I can handle it,” Wally replied, smiling back. After all, it probably wasn’t the nurses’ fault that this place was so messed up, so it wasn’t like picking fights with them would do anything. With a cheery wave goodbye, Wally slowly made his way to the cafeteria, keeping a tight grip on his crutch all the while. Obtaining a plate of food was only slightly less difficult than it had been yesterday – he didn’t have the painkillers to work around this time – but he managed well enough, coming away from the buffet with a tray containing a plate piled high with slices of French Toast and slathered in maple syrup, butter, and sugar, as well as a glass of juice. Not quite as good as some coffee would be right now, but the sugar would hopefully make up for it. And, with how few people were here at the moment, he could afford to take more food than might have been considered ‘normal’ – he’d have most of it gone by the time anyone came to keep him company, then he could just worry about how many extra serves would be allowed before he aroused suspicion.
Feeling pretty happy with how things were looking so far, Wally hummed faintly to himself as he dug in to his breakfast.
At the sound of the intercom, Wally jerked awake and blinked around at the room. He’d fallen asleep. He should have been up and keeping an eye open for ZEX, but he’d fallen asleep waiting on his bed.
“Idiot,” he groaned, ruffling his hair and sighing in annoyance. “Way to help a guy out, hotshot.” Hopefully ZEX hadn’t dropped by and thought he’d left or something, or wouldn’t be too mad at him for just forgetting about it like that. If he was lucky, he’d be able to catch up with the other patient at some point and explain what had happened.
Rolling himself a little awkwardly out of the bed, Wally took the opportunity to stretch his injured leg and test how well it was holding up. It was feeling a bit better, not so much that he could abandon his crutch or that it didn’t pull painfully if he wasn’t careful, but better. Tony had apparently made it through the night in one piece as well, which was a relief. He really didn’t feel comfortable about the thought of his roommate wandering about on his own with an injured arm. Not when Wally himself could relax and fall asleep in the apparent safety of their room.
Yeah, he wasn’t going to let himself forget that one in a hurry.
It was at that moment that the door swung open to admit one of the nurses. She seemed surprised to find him awake and ready to go already, but smiled warmly. “Hungry, are we Mr. West? Well in that case, let’s get you to the cafeteria. The staff have provided some delicious French Toast as well as a range of other foods I’m sure you’ll like. Now will you be needing a hand with your leg, dear?”
“No thanks, I can handle it,” Wally replied, smiling back. After all, it probably wasn’t the nurses’ fault that this place was so messed up, so it wasn’t like picking fights with them would do anything. With a cheery wave goodbye, Wally slowly made his way to the cafeteria, keeping a tight grip on his crutch all the while. Obtaining a plate of food was only slightly less difficult than it had been yesterday – he didn’t have the painkillers to work around this time – but he managed well enough, coming away from the buffet with a tray containing a plate piled high with slices of French Toast and slathered in maple syrup, butter, and sugar, as well as a glass of juice. Not quite as good as some coffee would be right now, but the sugar would hopefully make up for it. And, with how few people were here at the moment, he could afford to take more food than might have been considered ‘normal’ – he’d have most of it gone by the time anyone came to keep him company, then he could just worry about how many extra serves would be allowed before he aroused suspicion.
Feeling pretty happy with how things were looking so far, Wally hummed faintly to himself as he dug in to his breakfast.
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'My apologies," she murmured, "Kira almost did something very unwise." She sighed. "This is going to be a very long day."
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How much longer would they be here?
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She looked up at her food before sighing and pushing it further away, her attention turning to the broken pieces of her pencil. She took the pointed end and started to draw, just sketchy figures to start with. Maybe if she started to draw, something would come out on its own.
"Sage-sensei," she said quietly after a moment, "I'm afraid Renji's death is about to cause a drastic shift in the paradigm of Art & Crafts. I think I may end up contributing to it, and yet the thought does not bother me."
She paused. "That bothers me."
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Clubs undergoing dramatic changes, or outright dissolving, was probably inevitable over time. Not that it was a good thing, depending on the circumstances, but it happened.
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Her pencil paused as she stared at what had started to take on the form of Renji. "Last night, this place took something personal from us. He may have died in the course of his duty, something all shinigami understood and accepted, but this place..."
"I believe that whereas duty will never leave the shinigami it will no longer be our driving force."
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Whatever it takes to get out of here, the darker side of her said. And even more of her than usual agreed.
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"Hatred."
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...All right, romance novels really are bad for the brain.
"It's understandable," she said quietly. Losing someone like Renji--it didn't sound like something any of them would get over.
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"This may or may not come as a surprise, but I've never experienced true hatred until coming here." Her gaze moved across the cafeteria. "This place has changed me..."
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At least she hadn't seen any friends die. Or fallen into the pond.
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"Imagine how existence would be if the death gods no longer placed their duty above all else?" It would throw the universe into unbalance. It would bring about catastrophic consequences... It would endanger everything.
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The origin of all that was a death that shouldn't have happened, too...
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She knew she didn't understand what was happening in Raine's world, but she did understand balances and multiple planes. "I doesn't make it right, but it also doesn't make it wrong. People with power must be careful, lest they abuse it. Many times without even knowing they are."
Her eyes dropped to the journal before her. "It is when certain sacrifices become acceptable that there is a problem."
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She'd explain about Colette later, if she was asked. Now felt too much like changing the subject.
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She sighed. "But people are passionate, emotional creatures. We rarely ever take the time to think things through before acting. Even shinigami are like this. I'd say that had to do with once having been human, but the nobles are even worse about it than a commoner like me."
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Through it all... distractions were good. "The noble class among shinigami were never human?"
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Her thoughts on that subject were rerouted, though, when Raine asked about the nobles. She frowned a little. "I'm not 100% sure, but no, I don't think they were." She thought for a moment.
"You see, most seated officers, and nearly all captains, are nobles. It is rare for commoners to reach rank given the differences in the average reiatsu levels." She hmmed a moment. "Remember, we're spiritual beings. Commoners are souls that move through being human and then dying and returning to Soul Society. It's a continuous cycle for us. A commoner soul doesn't actually die, it reincarnates and is born as a human."
She set her pencil down. "I don;t know what happens to nobles when they die, but us commoners suspect they actually die - the soul snuffs out never to return. Nobles are generally so much more powerful, as if traversing through the cycle of life, death and reincarnation dillutes a commoner's reiatsu."
She sighed. "The nobles keep all that information closely guarded and are the ruling class of Soul Society." Her gaze shifted to look at the other shinigami again. "My rank grants me equal status to the nobles."
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She still didn't want to think about what would happen if they knew. Was Iselia even home for her and Genis anymore?
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Momo pursed her lips. "But I also grew up in the First District of Rukongai, next to the ivory walls of Seireitei. I know those that grew up in the outskirts had it much harder and therefore hold the nobles in great contempt."