Mele tapped her fingers on the desk, eyes narrowed. So. The 'Head Doctor' was back.
Nothing to do with the past two nights? Mele had assumed there was only one person responsible for the entire mess of the institute. But if Mele could accept that 'Landel' was not the same entity as 'Long'....
Mele leaned back into the chair, folding her arms. What had happened at the town...was that one of the things the 'Head Doctor' (who may or may not be 'Landel', Mele hadn't quite figured that out yet,) claimed not to be responsible for? The zombies...they'd not been like rinshi, couldn't organize themselves, and, according to Hinamori Momo, didn't have their souls. And they were rotted; did that merely mean they'd been buried in a normal plot of land, unobstructed from decaying normally? But if that was so, why had revival even been possible?
And he'd said the last "two" nights. The screaming, the mechanical voice?
But if—if—he was telling the truth and this wasn't some ploy to mess with their minds...who had done the things from the last two nights?
Enemy dynamics. This had been so much easier when she was an observer of fights...Mele shook her head. Right, aside from the mysterious 'Landel', there was the intercom guy, and Head Nurse Lydia. She couldn't get any reading of Lydia's personality from her announcements, but that wasn't unexpected. Mele paused in her thinking. The nurses. Lydia was 'Head Nurse', did that mean...? Lydia could have been among them. So the nurses were in on this? ...Well of course they were; they were the ones who locked the prisoners in and insisted on calling her "Airi." In a way, the nurses were to Lydia what the rinshi had been to Mele, once...an army.
Which brought her right back to why they were nurses, why this elaborate lie of an institute. She'd seen the way the residents of that town looked at her and her fellow inmates. And why allow them out into the town at all?
Which came all the way back to what the intercom guy had said about 'training'. Be prepared, her body seemed to scream at her. But she already knew that.
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Nothing to do with the past two nights? Mele had assumed there was only one person responsible for the entire mess of the institute. But if Mele could accept that 'Landel' was not the same entity as 'Long'....
Mele leaned back into the chair, folding her arms. What had happened at the town...was that one of the things the 'Head Doctor' (who may or may not be 'Landel', Mele hadn't quite figured that out yet,) claimed not to be responsible for? The zombies...they'd not been like rinshi, couldn't organize themselves, and, according to Hinamori Momo, didn't have their souls. And they were rotted; did that merely mean they'd been buried in a normal plot of land, unobstructed from decaying normally? But if that was so, why had revival even been possible?
And he'd said the last "two" nights. The screaming, the mechanical voice?
But if—if—he was telling the truth and this wasn't some ploy to mess with their minds...who had done the things from the last two nights?
Enemy dynamics. This had been so much easier when she was an observer of fights...Mele shook her head. Right, aside from the mysterious 'Landel', there was the intercom guy, and Head Nurse Lydia. She couldn't get any reading of Lydia's personality from her announcements, but that wasn't unexpected. Mele paused in her thinking. The nurses. Lydia was 'Head Nurse', did that mean...? Lydia could have been among them. So the nurses were in on this? ...Well of course they were; they were the ones who locked the prisoners in and insisted on calling her "Airi." In a way, the nurses were to Lydia what the rinshi had been to Mele, once...an army.
Which brought her right back to why they were nurses, why this elaborate lie of an institute. She'd seen the way the residents of that town looked at her and her fellow inmates. And why allow them out into the town at all?
Which came all the way back to what the intercom guy had said about 'training'. Be prepared, her body seemed to scream at her. But she already knew that.