[CLOSED]

[tattooedredheads]

Who: Kay and Souji eatsyourscience
Where: The Diner
When: 6/8
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Kay returns to Wonderland with a serious wound. Luckily, Souji is there to help.
The Story:

The Diner
[Between one blink and the next, Kay goes from sitting in a train to sitting in a diner.]

[Wonderland, his memories inform him, but Kay doesn't waste time dwelling on it. He's no longer in the train, which means he can get medical assistance. He needs that as quickly as he can. He's loosing blood from the wound in his abdomen and he can taste it in his mouth as well. Breathing hurts. Talking, he knows from experience, will as well. He can talk despite the pain, but if he tries to shout, he'll end up coughing instead.]

[The table has items on it. Kay sweeps them off the table so that they clatter loudly to the floor. That should catch the attention of anyone nearby. In case there isn't anyone nearby, he starts reaching for the phone in his pocket to send a message on the network.]

[He growls at the phone when it slips from his blood-coated fingers.]

Comments

[eatsyourscience]

Is this why? [Souji gestures at Kay's bloody clothes.]

[tattooedredheads]

Mostly it's because the Estancia we know about doesn't actually exist. Estancia was a fictional country in a popular short story called Off to Estancia. There is a city called Estancia but it's more of a war zone than a place dreams come true. The train isn't meant to take us anywhere. It's purpose is actually to take us away from Sakia. As fugitives rather than citizens, our government can't be held responsible for anything that happens to us.

The government runs experiments on the fugitives to create weapons that they can use. If we survive the experiments, we get the chance to fight for them. But if the government decides that the risk of keeping us alive is too high, then they kill us. We broke through their final measure to keep us contained so the government shot the train itself to stop us.

[He finished cleaning as much as he can, but the shirt is unsalvageable. He'll need to grab another one from a closet later.]

[eatsyourscience]

[Souji takes a moment to turn all of that over in his mind. It sounds straightforward when Kay explains it, but he's sure that finding all of that out wasn't straightforward at all.]

And you know you're going to die?

[tattooedredheads]

Yeah. There aren't any doctors around and my world doesn't have magic to help out.

[eatsyourscience]

[Souji frowns, nodding slowly. He doesn't like that idea, but clearly there's nothing either of them can do about it.]

...I'm sorry.

[Really, what else do you say to the knowledge of someone else's imminent demise?]

[tattooedredheads]

Hey, thanks to you, I didn't waste a death over here. And who knows how much time Wonderland'll give me.

[Kay knew, as soon as he boarded that train, his time was limited. He's grateful for any extra time he manages to get.]

[eatsyourscience]

I'm glad I could help.

[If Kay had arrived anywhere else, he really might have died.]

And under the circumstances, I hope you stay for awhile.