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[mosaic_archive]

The Nexus Clinic near the Warehouse is mostly quiet today, with no large emergencies taking up the time of the medics who volunteer here. The most recent group to arrive is actually the closest to 'busy' it's been all day, and they're not there for current help but to give some thanks for previous events.

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[mordredeschain]

You can use this place ta get rid of anything as needs getting rid of, ta gain aid for thy cause, ta learn ways o' fightin'. *He looks at them with an expression far too experienced for his young age.* I can see it in your mind, the thing that's a-waitin' for thee at home, an' I'd be more than happy ta take it off thy hands. Mordred isn't human, sais, a dead hume's useful to me.

[pm_torch]

Rick doesn't want to think of any situation that puts 'dead human' and 'useful' in the same sentence. He had the very bad feeling it would be even worse than Decapitron's stories of old Afzel the sorceror. "Well, that got to be TMI really fast."

Blade can't imagine anyone with a good use for dead humans, and thinks he'd be one to know given the use he had for them all those years ago, when he was still Dr. Hess.

Patrick's definitely uncomfortable too. Bad enough the kid rifles through their minds like an open-book library, but... "You think the dead crazy woman's the problem?"

That was the result of solving a problem Jester comments.

The problem is if the police show up and get killed by Totems or Servants, Tunneler adds.

"Or just try to deal with things way out of their pay grade and get in the way," Patrick agrees, though he's also thinking of the paranormal research team he and his sister were part of. As far as Caroline would know, she was the only survivor.

"Worse, dead or not, right now she's our only lead," Rick says. There had been a Totem at the house, so they know she had ties to Sutekh... or his cult, given that they'd killed Sutekh himself ten years ago. It's possible they might need the police to identify the assassin in order to figure out how she got involved. Either that, or they'd be stuck with waiting until the cult realizes she's not going to be answering any more phone calls and sends something else. However he's no longer comfortable with saying anything else out loud near Mordred, for all the good that would do. "It's time we got back to the hospital," he says to Patrick. They needed to plan. Away from someone who seemed way too eager to follow them for the chance to get to any resulting dead bodies.

[mordredeschain]

Part o' the problem, at least. You live in a civilized world, dead bodies worry folken in such places. But if you've need of what the dead can tell ya, that I understand.

*He sighs.* I'm tryin' not ta be bad, but my nature is Red an' the world o' my birth was hellish. Old habits die hard, cry thy pardon.

[pm_blade]

"Tip for later, kid," Rick says, "Telling people you've just met that you have a use for dead people and would like to follow them home to find some? Not a step in the right direction." More in the direction of wondering if they need to - or even could - get a restraining order. But Rick still needs to get back, gathering up the cane he's been using and trying to mentally prepare himself for a bit more of a walk until they PINpoint out of the Nexus. It's going to be a while before he's well enough to go anywhere for long, much less go back to their world of orgin.

Tunneler goes ahead and climbs back into the duffel bag. The bright lights around here don't agree with him, and he'd just as soon be out of them.

In general, people dying is seen as a bad thing, Blade says, though with the thought that certain specific people can make exceptions of themselves. And those who have a use for people to be dead... often are not good people. I should know.

Ja, you still get all the Nazi Zombie Army jokes, adds Jester, to which Blade manages to look embarrassed.

It's a good thing you figured out that would be a bad thing, Pinhead comments, giving the other Blade a pat on the shoulder that almost accidentally knocks him down.

[mordredeschain]

People dyin' be all I know, sai, an' Mordred . . . Mordred's hungry. Mordred's hungry and that is the truth, the truth forever and ever. I be sorry, but demon blood breeds true.

[pm_torch]

"We've already got too many demons in our lives," Patrick says, gathering up the duffel and helping Rick. Blade stays out just in case, despite the reported anti-violence field. This strange kid being way too insistant on wanting to follow them home and eat people isn't someone they want anything to do with. They have enough problems. They'll PINPoint out as soon as they can, hoping they can't be followed. So much for the Nexus being a nice break from murderous demons!