Day 37: Sun Room (4th Shift)

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There were still too many things on Armand's mind for him to truly relax. The morning with Alec had been a help. And seeing that TK was going to be well helped him know that it was time to work out something else, but what? He'd already, without success again, tried to reach one of the club leaders about his sole idea of something new and different. Maybe it was hopeless.

There was no way he was going to play with paper and glue like a small child, and he glared at the nurse as best he could until she gave up on the idea. There was a free chair in the Sun Room--in fact, there were many free chairs--where he settled down to see what the new patients looked like. Prisoners, not patients. He felt bad that he had to remind himself. Even if he was crazy, he wasn't going to give in to Dr. Landel's game, not today. He nibbled on an overgrown cuticle and kept an eye on the room. No dozing today.

[for Citan]

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That was way off for Mr. H, and Shiki was most definitely not a Nicole. Yet his name remained the same, so why- oh. The older man's comment made Joshua think of what it had to be... they were saying that 'Joshua' was his real name, what he really was, and not just the name that he preferred for himself. When he thought about it that way, it made perfect sense, and suddenly felt a lot more grating than it had been only a few moments ago. That's how it usually felt with Mr. H- he always seemed to notice those things that Joshua didn't.

At the exchange between the other two, Joshua simply shrugged. "They could both be right," he stated, as he knew more than most how 'parallel' worlds worked and what could happen in them. "Though I don't think he ever said that he had been here. Probably wouldn't want to admit it, knowing him."