http://constellates.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] constellates.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2009-08-09 01:25 pm

Day 43: Chapel

And just like that, the disorienting feeling of blacking out just to wake up in an unfamiliar bed came again. Alkaid had wondered if it would - everything about last night had been different, all the way from the zombies to the eerie emptiness of the Institute to the strange broadcast at the end of the night. Had the Head Doctor been shot? Damn, someone had gotten to it before her. And who was the voice at the end there? It was like she'd been allowed access to some kind of strange mystery that she could not understand, one that had been going on for a long time before she had arrived and would be going on for quite a while in the future, after she was gone. Had these strange sets of circumstances been bugs in this place's programming? Who could say?

The morning's intercom greeting was strange, as well. Federal training whatsit? It didn't seem like this happened very often, from the sound of it, but so much had happened since the last day she remembered that the former Demon Palace Emperor was ready to take pretty much anything at face value.

The room she woke up in was still empty. Wondering where to stick the half-cracked bat that she'd picked up last night, she shoved it under the mattress hastily when she heard footsteps in the hall.

The stupid nurse was the same as ever, though. Some things never changed. "Ahh, good morning, Eileen. It's so nice to see you awake."

Alkaid rolled her eyes at the nurse's chuckle, and shook her head. She didn't care that the NPC thought it was nice, she just wanted to see the rest of the institute already.. see what had changed! "Yeah, it's fantastic. Whatever! Just take me where I'm going and be done with it!"

It was just then that she realized that she was not wanting to devour the flesh of the nurse in front of her. And that the pain on her arm had kind of abated - she couldn't see through the thick bandages they had covered her arm with, but she wondered if her skin was still rotting off like a zombie. Had they somehow cured her infection overnight? Or was the nurse not human, like Alkaid had always thought?

There was only one thing for it: she had to go somewhere else.

"Chapel, sun room, or cafeteria, then?"

"Does it look like I care?"

The nurse sighed, then started walking Alkaid down the hall, up the stairs, and down another hall to the chapel. No one here yet, huh? That was weird. She couldn't imagine that no one else'd show up, but who could say? This place had been turned on its ass.

The chapel was empty so far, and kind of nondescript. She shooed the nurse away, and stood in the middle of the space between the pews, standing akimbo. What would happen today? What would she learn about herself... her situation? How long had she been sleeping? Was she really still going freaking undead, or had that been somehow taken care of?

All this would come to light really soon. She hoped. Geez, too many mysteries!!

[unwittingly awaiting Haseo]

[identity profile] briar-thorns.livejournal.com 2009-08-23 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
If that extra bit of info had been tacked on there was a high chance key parts of Aya's mind might have shut down. When Ken moved to get his shirt back, Aya simply let go and drew away. Right, that next bit still went down the line of more information than Aya deemed necessary to know about Ken's preferences. Not to mention it was a weak addition at best.

You know?

They should have just stuck to the spiraling descent into madness.

Aya grunted, one of those non-committal sounds which meant a books worth and feigned indifference at the same time. He'd gotten what he needed and a whole basket more from this conversation. They should probably stop before anything else not expressly pertinent to their situation came up.

The swordsman pushed himself to his feet and glanced down at his teammate.

[identity profile] gentiana-clusii.livejournal.com 2009-08-23 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Ken sighed and crossed himself, heedless of Aya's eyes on him. The chapel hadn't provided much calm today. The nurses were starting to guide their patients out, the intercom crackling to life and making another strange announcement. I.R.I.S., inspections...after nearly a month of the same mindnumbing routine, these new developments were rather unnerving. He had no idea what they meant, and they probably wouldn't find out until nightfall.

God, that really hadn't gone the way he wanted it to. Ken stood, sighing out a deep breath he didn't remember taking, eyes closed, and turned to walk out of the sanctuary. Now all he needed was to fuck up with Yohji and this fucking wonderful day would be complete. It was barely even noon.