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Candle in the Wind

Author: CynicalPepper
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

[THE INSTANT YOU LEAVE YOUR ROOMS, YOU WILL BE HUNTED!]

Speakers across the hotel blare loudly with these few words for a few minutes, stopping after three.

"We failed," Seth whispers to himself, looking over to his hotel room door and back to Eremita. She finished operating on Nixon, covered in bloody bandages and the like. Eremita sighs, turning to Seth.

"Well, he should be fine now, you seem to know how to change his bandages and stuff so I'll let you take care of that when the time comes. He won't be recovering fully in a while though."

"How long do you think?"

"Well... I don't know what he's made of but he's probably going to recover in two weeks. Kind of unnatural for someone but its a positive."

"We never were normal so that makes sense."

"You both heal that fast?"

"Yep."

"You guys are odd."

"I know."

They stay quiet, Eremita thinking of what she'll say next and Seth contemplating quietly on the othe

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