A Fortunate Arival

[despairing_hope]

[Arriving on Base]

[He was vaguely aware of waking up inside a small capsule. If he was to describe it he would liken it to one of those escape pods you see in scifi films. He might have had more to describe if he hadn't been violently jerked out of one perceived reality to another. After all, it was a little hard to go from a rather unpleasant state to suddenly waking up in a small capsule and being attacked by some horrible sea monster.]

Oh what bad luck!

[But as soon as he said that much a laser fired out and monster got distracted going somewhere else. before he knew it something was shooting him out and directly towards the base. Though his legs were a little wobbly, and he definitely needed a moment to gather himself it didn't take too much effort to board. As soon as he walked in he smiled cheerfully.]

It was lucky after all!

[Med Bay]

[Despite a safe arrival he was not in a good state. Being stationary for the minimum of a month, the maximum of who even knows is hard on the body, especially Nagito's body. For the time being he was simply resting in one of the beds, though trying to get up every so often to move around. However, staying here was troubling him. He had taken measure of himself, it was someone else. A person that worried him.]

I guess my assumption was true then....

[Did that mean he failed? He had to know... he had to know if his plan had been successful, if he had saved them! Still... if he was here....

He lifted up his left arm and stared at the hand there. That hand that didn't belong. A woman's hand with red nails....]

This really is unlucky in the end.

[Library]

[It was later at night and Nagito had more or less made camp in the room. There wasn't anywhere else for him to go. Taking a private room didn't feel right, and he couldn't bare the thought of sharing it with others. However, he liked the idea of being where all the books in this place were. He could read them at leisure, and unless someone told him he couldn't stay... well, it was a free space, right?]

Comments

[despairing_hope]

...

[How should he put it... did he even want to explain it?]

I really shouldn't be here then.

[gnasher]

None of us should be here.

[he thinks it's just a comment about the scariness of the place; most newcomers were pretty thrown, after all]

But we make the best of it. -- I can help you get through your first couple weeks. Other people will, too.

[despairing_hope]

Ah... for someone like me... it's probably better to ignore me. I'm sure nothing good will happen if you get too close.

[gnasher]

The base isn't that big. There's not a lot of choice in being close or not.

[yeah, overkill on the self-deprecation, definitely. maybe he was a shut in? he was so pale]

[despairing_hope]

That's....

[Unfortunate. But in a way, maybe that would be fortunate? He was starting to worry more. No, it should be fine. Right now was neither lucky or unlucky.]

Well, I will just believe in Hope that everything works out fine then. After all, it's already quite the thing to be here.

[gnasher]

What do you mean?

[that almost sounds like... here is better than where he was]

[despairing_hope]

I didn't expect to be alive, so it's interesting to be sitting here.

[gnasher]

"Interesting"? Seriously?

[he shouldn't be nosy but -- ]

What happened? What kind of situation were you in, before you woke up here?

[despairing_hope]

I was dead. Or, I had died. At least I thought I had died. Or, experienced what it would feel like to die. Whether or not my body would have actually died is a mystery.