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[h3][color=gray]The Real World, Quiet HiveMind Facility[/color][/h3]

[sub][@SporkoBug], [@Days], [@WhiteAngel25], [@Lexisheeps][/sub]

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[quote=Toren/Maw][color=lightblue]"Take... Pain for Toren..."[/color][/quote]

Cosy looked up from Annalise and the screen, seeing a somewhat unfamiliar face approach them, mumbling to himself. She had seen him at the final showdown with that strange spectral warrior, but besides that…

Her brows furrowed in concern, and she took a couple steps towards Toren/Maw. [b]”Are you okay? Do you need anything? Is that… blood?”[/b]

Before she remembered her manners her French father had instilled in her. [b]”Sorry. I wonder if they have medicine here… I'm Cosette. But you can call me Cosy. I don't think I got your name when we were… well, in there?”[/b] She said, awkwardly gesturing to the tubes.

Before Cosy briefly turned towards Jay and Axen, Jay, of which, was stumbling about. 

[b]”Axen, how is she?”[/b] Cosy asked. Of course she knew Axen and Jay. Everyone knew the hottest explorers from Mechozs.io. At least, she knew the simulation version of them…

[quote=Jay][b]"Oh hey, they were in the simulation too."[/b][/quote]

Cosy gave a soft nod. Everything felt so tired. Even her eyelids struggled to blink. [b]”Yeah. Director Galloes sure, uh, pulled a number on us. He-he.”[/b] Her laugh felt fake and weak, but it was the best attempt at humour she could muster.

[quote=Nick]"You girls alright?”[/quote]

[b]”Dad!”[/b] Cosy yelped with sudden enthusiasm, rushing over to him. She allowed him to embrace her, and she quickly hugged back. [b]”You're okay… you're okay, thank goodness. I was… scared.”[/b]

She pulled back, head scanning this way and that, before she innocently looked up at her father. [b]”Where is Ivaylo?”[/b]

That was when a soft whirring could be heard through the wall outside their door. Cosy carefully extracted herself from Nick, before she snuck up to the door and peered through the little window. A hovering, miniature Beast with a singular camera eye, chrome and plastic floated past the door, obviously doing its rounds. It didn't bother to look in their direction. Perhaps the rooms were more soundproof than Cosy had thought.

They were lucky… for now.

Cosy waited for the robot to turn a corner, before she cracked the room's door open, peering into the hallway. She looked to the side, staring up at the wall, before she yanked a piece of laminated paper off the wall, and quickly came back into the room, quietly shutting the door behind her.

She held up the paper triumphantly. [b]”Look! It must be a staff's map to the place! Where do you even suppose we are, anyway? …Besides Chigaco, that is.”[/b]

She held the [url=https://i.imgur.com/02QEwRw.png]map[/url] out, hoping everyone else would be able to make more sense of it than she.