Night 58: Front Desk (Medical Wing)
[from here]Following Soma into the medical wing, Kratos closed the door quietly behind them. The lobby area looked as much as it had the previous night, although he did not stop again to draw comparisons between it and the Elemental Research Academy. His awe and curiosity had both been satisfied, so now it was simply business as usual. This part of
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"I wonder if it's okay for the military to just let us know where the Major is, though," Anise mused as she entered the room, thinking deeply. "I mean, it wouldn't be weird if some people decided to go interrogate him - or even try to kill him. You know, to get back at the army." Then again, Aguilar didn't seem like the type of guy to half-ass anything. Maybe Harrington had his own guards standing by in case something happened.
Heck, maybe the whole thing was a trap to begin with.
In any case, they were in the Medical Wing now. This seemed to be a front desk area, with nothing out of the ordinary except...
'Are you a good patient?' The harshly scrawled words fell under Anise's flashlight, and she flinched a little as she read them. "... Creepy," she muttered, then looked back up at Gumshoe. There was no use in dwelling on the staff's sick sense of humor. "Any idea where they'd keep medicine in here?"
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The thought of actually hurting anyone, let alone killing them, had never crossed Gumshoe's mind as a solution. He got why some people might want a piece of them, and he guessed he couldn't really blame them. But you wouldn't get Gumshoe to agree to it! The minute violence became the answer, the minute they could no longer say they were better than the General. "If people try to kill a guy for following orders, it won't solve anyone's problems, pal. If anything, it'd just make things worse ( ... )
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Besides - and there was no way she was saying this out loud - sometimes a little petty revenge felt really good. And all of the bastards running the institute deserved everything that came to them, whether it was the leader or some common soldier.
Even while entertaining such dark thoughts, Anise kept up a cheerful demeanor as she looked around the room. It didn't look like they were going to find anything around the front counter, so after doing another sweep with her flashlight, Anise led the way to what looked like the main hallway of the medical wing.
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