Oh, and monsters weren't a big thing for these kids.
Riiight. Running with it. (If he was in a building full of hunters, he might just have to kill himself. Again. Going in knowing he was gonna die was kinda like assisted suicide, right? They didn't seem to have the attitude, though... not that he'd met a lot of hunters face-to-face. Easy to imagine they had a swagger, though. Some of 'em did.)
"Hold on a sec," he said, flinging his hands up in front of him. "Can I get a Cliff Notes, here? Head Doctor? Portal rings?" Oh. That thing he'd heard earlier had... probably been important.
His luck.
From his experiences, head doctors plus institutions didn't exactly equal hospitals. He'd been in his share of hospitals; not for the patients, usually, but there were a lot of nice, corrupted staff in 'em. It had the hospital-y feel and the smell of bleach and the white walls, but usually they didn't have mon -
- okay, they usually did have monsters, but that was beside the point -
but they certainly didn't have portal rings, which sounded like an artifact to him. And this guy was just... handing 'em out. And they usually didn't have a bevy of patients vying for escape.
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Riiight. Running with it. (If he was in a building full of hunters, he might just have to kill himself. Again. Going in knowing he was gonna die was kinda like assisted suicide, right? They didn't seem to have the attitude, though... not that he'd met a lot of hunters face-to-face. Easy to imagine they had a swagger, though. Some of 'em did.)
"Hold on a sec," he said, flinging his hands up in front of him. "Can I get a Cliff Notes, here? Head Doctor? Portal rings?" Oh. That thing he'd heard earlier had... probably been important.
His luck.
From his experiences, head doctors plus institutions didn't exactly equal hospitals. He'd been in his share of hospitals; not for the patients, usually, but there were a lot of nice, corrupted staff in 'em. It had the hospital-y feel and the smell of bleach and the white walls, but usually they didn't have mon -
- okay, they usually did have monsters, but that was beside the point -
but they certainly didn't have portal rings, which sounded like an artifact to him. And this guy was just... handing 'em out. And they usually didn't have a bevy of patients vying for escape.
"Lake?"