Almost absently, her fingers curled until she could feel her fingertips brushing against her palms. Although her concern was far from abating--the Head Doctor himself had summoned them!--she tried to push away the surprise to think more clearly.
The man, if he could be called one, given that if everything known about him was true then he was hardly human, looked utterly ordinary to the naked eye, and the office equally so. But Tsubaki couldn’t say they defied her expectations, because she knew better than make any. Appearances only ever went so far. Likewise, trusting that he’d brought them here peacefully and would let them go the same way was out of the question, even if it was true he had the power to do a great deal of harm without needing to go so far. The deal wasn’t as simple as it sounded, and she reminded herself not to get trapped by black-and-white thinking.
And also… It was Kurogane and Fai she was worried about.
She could sense how short Kurogane’s fuse was like it were a physical heat on her skin, and when he spoke to her, she let out a breath, lowering her chin to steadily look back at the Head Doctor. It wasn’t, however, defiant. She didn’t think it was safe to cross his power field, either--partly because it was too early to say where this meeting was going--but it wasn’t hard to see why Fai had. Landel wasn’t giving them much choice. But she wasn’t going to leave.
Following Fai’s question, Tsubaki asked, "And why us?" That alone made no sense to her. The others clearly had more history with the Head Doctor than most, but… she’d never met this man before now and didn’t see why she’d be chosen specifically for an offer.
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The man, if he could be called one, given that if everything known about him was true then he was hardly human, looked utterly ordinary to the naked eye, and the office equally so. But Tsubaki couldn’t say they defied her expectations, because she knew better than make any. Appearances only ever went so far. Likewise, trusting that he’d brought them here peacefully and would let them go the same way was out of the question, even if it was true he had the power to do a great deal of harm without needing to go so far. The deal wasn’t as simple as it sounded, and she reminded herself not to get trapped by black-and-white thinking.
And also… It was Kurogane and Fai she was worried about.
She could sense how short Kurogane’s fuse was like it were a physical heat on her skin, and when he spoke to her, she let out a breath, lowering her chin to steadily look back at the Head Doctor. It wasn’t, however, defiant. She didn’t think it was safe to cross his power field, either--partly because it was too early to say where this meeting was going--but it wasn’t hard to see why Fai had. Landel wasn’t giving them much choice. But she wasn’t going to leave.
Following Fai’s question, Tsubaki asked, "And why us?" That alone made no sense to her. The others clearly had more history with the Head Doctor than most, but… she’d never met this man before now and didn’t see why she’d be chosen specifically for an offer.