Fionraella

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The doctor is glad that his trick worked on her, albeit not surprised. He'd dealt with young patients before. "It is my duty to do so." He takes the braced arm back into his hands and quickly tightens it. "See? That took no time at all. I hope you'll be just as helpful with the rest of your injuries."

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Ptelea looks at the brace curiously. She turns her arm this way and that. "I can't move it very well.." She frowns at him. "You sure this will be better?" She then nods. "Of course! I'm super helpful!" She smiles sweetly at him.

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For the sake of making the situation easier on himself, the doctor decided to try a new approach. "Indeed. You might lose your arm if you don't allow me to fix the brace. I've seen patients with one arm and let me tell you, life is very difficult for them. So let me fix your arm right now and I promise you it will be good as new within a few weeks."

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Ptelea's eyes widen fearfully. "No! I like my arm!" She hugs her arm gently to her body, glaring at him. "You bettr make it all better, kay?" She asks, before holding her arm out to him again.

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"It will hurt for only a moment," The doctor offers, gesturing towards the partially-completed work on the brace. "but it will hurt much more later if you don't allow me to do this now. You want to use your arm, don't you?" He speaks methodically with clear focus on his task.

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Ptelea gasps. "I could lose my arm??" She asks, misunderstanding. She quickly squirms away from Admi and sits back on the table, shaking slightly.

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Liwei put his hand on Mona's back. He frowned deeply, digging his teeth into his cheek. "I.. I know... I want to know, too, but.. Damn." He shook his head. "I don't want blood on my hands, M."

"Vera," Misha offered.

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Mona composes herself slightly, sighing as she looks at him sadly. She stops the van temporarily. She leans over and rests her head on his shoulder. "I don't either.." She whispers, closing her eyes briefly. "I wish things were more clearcut." She sighs softly.

"She's not my secretary." Fabine laughs.

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Liwei looked at her for a moment, then gently moved his hand to where hers rest on the steering wheel. He exhaled, then let himself smile sadly. "What will we do? Live like the other 8 billion normal people on this planet?" He glanced into the forest, memorizing the flowing shapes of greys and greens and blues as they moved by. "These kids are something totally special. Totally unique and unheard of." He laughed. "It's like something out of a science fiction movie. But, Mona, the thing is that we..." He looked at her. "We get to do anything we want. We aren't stuck feeling like outsiders. We could live anywhere, be anyone, and no one would ever hunt us down and do this to us. I think.. it might be better the way we are."

Misha drew out a long tsking noise, shaking her head. "See, that's why you gotta be the posterboy. If you don't give anybody else a shot, you gotta-" She flexed her arm. "-bear the burden." She paused for a moment, thinking back to the situation with Destin. "Oh, but you're not doing it all alone, now! You hired a secretary."

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Mona glances at their hands before looking ahead again. She sighs heavily. "Haven;t you ever wondered though? Ever wanted to be something you're not? Something you have the potential to be?" She shakes her head. "Sorry,that's just selfish thinking." She begins crying softly. "I just never got a chance to know what I could be Liwei..."

"Secretary?" Fabine asks, blinking. "Who the fuck is my secretary?"

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Admi gave a genuine frown. She wanted the child - both children, really - to trust her, but even with all of her training and ulterior motives, she still had a conscience. It hurt to see this young girl in so much pain. She wrapped her arms around her and lifted her, carrying her back to the doctor. "Of course, sweetie."

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Ptelea sets her head on Admi's shoulder, sniffling. She then looks at the doctor for a moment. "You have to promise you won't hurt me." She says as assertive as she can manage. She didn't like people who acted like they cared then hurt her. She decided they were the worst people now.

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Liwei rested his forearms on the dashboard, feeling the jolt of the wheels spinning against rocks and debris below. "Can you even imagine what that would be like? They're all just teenagers. They should be in high school, dealing with drama, not.."

With a glance at his hair, Misha nodded solemnly. "Face it, bub: it's time to let somebody else be the pretty one."

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"Not out here dealing with some evil group coming to pick them up and whisk them away to some facility where they'll be tested on? Yeah, I ompletely agree..." Mona sighs softly, shaking her head. "Unbelievable how this world works..." She frowns a bit. "Liwei, I'm never going to get to shift now." She realizes.

Fabine laughs and punches her arm. "Even bald, I'll still be the pretty one. And if not, I'll just kill off all those who are."

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At Sacha's instructions, Aya silently flies to a tree she can see hangs over Brom camp. She lands on a branch close to the tree's trunk and the edges her way along, hiding in the foliage. Whilst her animal was not as unusual as, say a cheetah, she was still sure that somebody catching a glimpse of a hawk might end up with her having an arrow shot at her. She waits for the other two to join her, finding that the branch was relatively strong and well-covered by leaves.

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Sacha follows and stops at the base of the tree. She sighs and sets her bow across her back and begins slowly climbing the tree. There weren't a ton of footholds, but she was able to pull herself to a low branch. She sits on it and looks out at the camp, frowning as she can't see anything. Grumbling internally, she climbs a few branches higher..

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Admi wraps her arm around the child's shoulders. "Oh, sweetie..." She raised a hand to brush a stray hair from the child's face. "I'm so sorry. We need to clean you up, now, though, or you'll hurt yourself more. Your brother is doing the right thing, now, so you'll both be safe now."

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Ptelea sniffles sadly, before nodding a bit. "Okay.." She whispers then looks at Ambrose, then back at Admi. "Safe?" She whimpers before burying her face in Admi's shirt, crying quietly.