Day 41: Breakfast

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Endrance turned his head to look at the intercom, giving it a look that would wither an entire rose garden in an instant. He would never get used to ending up in his room again from somewhere else in the Institute.

He brushed his bangs out of his eyes, not sitting up just yet. He could tell already that his torso had been heavily bandaged, even more so than it had been the night before. The cuts on his arms were covered with fresh bandages, and the one on his cheek seemed to no longer be there at all.

Endrance had been expecting to wake up in a lot of pain, but even that seemed numbed. "They must have given me something," he murmured quietly, as he slowly sat up.

At that moment, his nurse came to get him, pushing a wheelchair along with her. "Peyton, dear, good morning. I've come to take you to breakfast, so..." He shook his head. "I'm fine. There's no need for that...I can walk perfectly well."

She sighed. Well, if he insisted, she wasn't going to stop him. She motioned for an orderly to take the chair away, and walked him to the cafeteria. Once they had gotten there, she pointed him toward a seat, then set a full tray of pancakes covered with syrup, a bowl of fruit, and a glass of orange juice in front of him. "Now eat all of that, Peyton, or else you won't be strong enough to keep walking like that."

He glared at her back as she walked away, then stopped suddenly. There was that faint pulse he'd felt the night before...it was exactly the same.

And so he completely ignored his food in favor of staring at the cafeteria doors, looking at every patient that came in.

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"Well, we could reverse it just to confuse people further, but." Edgeworth grinned back, then nodded. "Okay. The short version is that he waltzed into the room last night like he owned the place. Now, that, I could handle. What really triggered the warning bells is the fact that he immediately launched into lines of dialogue that sounded like he knew way too much about what was going on, and going on to imply that the same things that are happening in those experiment rooms are happening outside, in each of our home worlds. It was a level of knowledge beyond what I've heard any other patient say."

He paused for just a moment. "He explained it by saying that he had been working against that kind of organization before, but I'm not entirely sure that I buy it completely. Just be careful, all right?"