[BlueInTheShell]

Every single second that passed seem to take ages as the hand on the clock inched and crept forward. Almost as slowly as Shaldag would have been able to move his limbs detached. The Ogrunu was glad most of his party was cybernetic for now. At least no extremity had that weird sensation that needed to be touched. Scratched. Itchiness? Was that what it was called? It had been a long time since he needed to do such a thing, and the Ogrunu let out a small, agitated sigh. It was yet another time his life and the continuation of his being was being discussed and decided by the Chuzizian who remained to have been seen since they were in the ship and managed to get to this hospital. She had the money after all. Come to think of it, Shaldag could barely remember a time he wasn't clawing at Hyun's purse and accounts, and bought something of his own accord without asking.

"That's because she owns you. She put every single bit of machinery in your body. And now you want her to say 'Yes' to putting in more."

Shaldag flinched at his own internal thoughts, that dark, hissing voice making him flare his nostrils and bite down on his tongue with plastic teeth; the Ogrunu easing up on his chomp and weighing in on his own thoughts. It was true. Against his own spiritual volition he had replaced a lot of his organic pieces with metal. Something akin to being Halal to his species. The moment the rest of his kind had seen them with even just one of his arms gone he had been ostracized. He lost his place in his own clan, and with that? Had no other choice but to continue being a thrall in Hyun's pocket. But he had done as much good with it as he had done...Shaldag couldn't say evil. Evil was murdering innocent girls made of fire. Girls who didn't even know the scale of the actions her friends had took, and let her pay the price for it.

"And watch. Hyun's not gonna care in the slightest about your best friend. Toka got geeked by Edensians. Simply because Hyun shooed her away from you all so she could get sweet with Ashi and get her slit licked by the stupid Daoweian."

The silence in the room was monumental, and Shaldag couldn't give himself a rebuttal for such an act. There was lust all over Hyun's eyes when it came to Ashi. There wasn't even a chance for anyone else to have gotten a chance to at least swoon over her. Not that he would of course. Shaldag? He couldn't remember the last time he had managed to eke out something akin to fancying another woman. Maybe it was just his own tastes. Shaldag had been picky something fierce with keeping around any sort of potential mate. But the facts had come full circle. Hyun was always fine with Toka pestering them all nonstop. Why had this been the one time she was kicked away?

"Maybe Hyun did it on purpose. Either way. You know what you gotta do. They want you to be a machine? Kill things with metallic claws and no remorse? That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna let them remember what the word 'Shaldag' means in your native tongue..."

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Analoka did her best to focus on her patient, among the magenta woman's tirade of anger. The Chuzizian was clearly too much of an emotional wreck with the current situation, and maybe she could at least get her to be a bit more amicable once Ashi herself was back to at least 90%. The hostility was met with a small shrug from the doctor, who worked as diligently as she could and hummed - the sight of broken bone and haggard meat a secondhand thought. She had seen enough war wounds in her career to not blink (Not that she could of course.) And the blue-haired girl seemed more than keen on being able to walk again.

There was no sensation of pain, but the Daoweian would feel her fingers as she probed around and set everything back to where it was - Once things had been set the Verdaqua seemed to work like a modern miracle of science. Bone fused together, then proceeded to heal like normal. One could probably watch as the regenerative process took hold, though Analoka had no time to really watch in her own amazement.

"The first time I used a tub like this, I thought it was a joke. Verdaqua is a marvelous chemical, is it not?" She chattered out loud, trying to at least shift the grim notion of their other friend into something a little more manageable. Analoka could mend bones and suture wounds. She couldn't ease troubled minds. Not the kind they had.

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"Humans don't live near my kind. I don't have to worry about a human doctor trying to kill me while I'm sitting in there. Vulnerable. Distracted. That's how the other Terskixian medics have worked in the past. They would take a few bites out of you if you weren't in good terms." Atrix said bitterly, clenching her fingers and releasing them before she crossed her lower set of limbs. Her look towards Mendez was one with growing anxiety, and finally the hall ended with her room in front of her; the Terskix squeezing his hand with much more force than she had wanted - Atrix pulling back like she had placed her finger on something hot. "...I didn't break your hand did I? Coming here was a mistake. We should just leave. I'll let it heal on its own."