With the end of Quarantine, all of the patients who'd been kept in the bubbles had been released (with the exception of those that Medical felt weren't safe to release), and brought back to the Med Bay proper. Some of them might leave, with family or friends to look after them, but others might remain in the Med Bay. Others still were only just
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Something she often found herself both at odds and comfortable with. "Are you awake, Seiei-san?"
A polite way to ask, and easy to ignore if he'd rather not be.
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Settling on that thought, he closed his eyes and let out a breath through his nose.
"I apologize."
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In a place where it could so easily be otherwise, it didn't register as something worth apologizing for. (Even if she would, in his position. Sakura hated the idea of losing control of herself -- something that happened very, very rarely over the years.)
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That hadn't been either his choice or his intent, but he did it all the same. Thus, he owed her at least that much.
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There were some things outside people's immediate control. Sakura knew that much, and he hadn't seemed to be able to focus on the when he'd been in, let alone stay conscious long enough to do much lasting damage.
If she wouldn't forget how strong his push had been in that instant.
"Nonetheless, apology accepted."
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"Was there something you needed?"
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Then again, home wasn't here. "And if there was anything further I can do for you, right now."
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"There's nothing..." He was already losing focus again, so easy was it to fall into these moments. "...nothing..."
He turned his head slightly to the side, looking up at the pink-haired girl at his bedside. He could see the drops of water, floating in the zero gravity. He could see more water, trails of tears that had been streaming down her face.
Feldt had been crying...
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And if she needed to be speaking to draw him out of them, or if it would be more like how he'd been in the hangar.
"Nothing I can do right now." She doesn't like saying that, if admitting her limitations and then striving to overcome them had been part of her life for years. Issues with the mind, hallucinations that weren't genjutsu based? Beyond her, in so many ways.
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"...Feldt?"
"Setsuna!" She threw her arms around him in a hug, and he could feel her crying against him.
She had really been worried about him.
He turned his head towards her a bit more, leaning his head against hers a bit. He reached with his arm to lightly hug her back...
...but the restraints stopped the motion. That jolted him out of his trance as he looked down at his arm in confusion. As reality further intruded, he could feel that memory slipping from his grasp, and back to the recesses of his mind. He tried to hold onto it, but he'd have an easier time grabbing hold of the wind.
Once he was back to reality, his eyes locked on to Sakura. He opened his mouth, looking as if he needed to tell her something important, but not a sound came out. He could practically feel the syllables on the tip of his tongue, but he could also feel them crumbling into dust ( ... )
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Really, what was going on for him?
"I'm sorry," she said softly. "I'll see if I can't help change that." He might not want her to expend the time or effort (or more to the point, wouldn't want to cooperate), but it was increasingly apparent to her she needed to study more of what made the mind work than she ever had before.
Giving up would never be an option. Growing stronger, getting better, learning more -- all of those were.
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