NPC, Sanageyama Masaoko
The formal life she understood was close behind her, but simply stepping back would never bring her to it. She was only a child, so ignorant of everything about her and the world, but somehow she knew that it would all be revealed to her in due time. Time she wasn’t ready for perhaps. None of these thoughts occurred to Masaoko though. She was unlike her sister, considerate of everyone and everything, but little sisters were supposed to be carefree. Setsuna took care of her. It’d always be like that, she hoped.
But, she had hoped to always be near her dad too…
Guess some things never worked out the way she wanted it to. She tried to look at the light of the situation. Kioku was a nice man, like her papa. Strong, kind, and very understanding. He was patient with the girls. Every day he worked hard alongside them to teach them common tongue. A simple language she was having trouble grasping like Setsuna, who with all the ease in the world spoke almost uninhibited with Kioku and strangers. She wanted to speak with them too. She no longer wanted them to be strangers anymore.
Cloud was as night and day in comparison with Roenesia. While she missed her home, she was excited at such a brand new world. A frosty mountain village resting quietly above the sea she was born in. She hadn’t seen much beside the Ishikawa complex and Academy. Masaoko teemed with excitement at the thought of undiscovered places. So much new mischief to discover!
But, alas, today she was ordered to go along with Kioku and Setsuna to the hospital. Something about check ups and vaccinations. Doctors frightened her as they were an unfamiliar entity. Roenesia only had one small clinic with limited supplies and so when Masaoko fell ill, her father often kept her home and cared for her himself. She clung at her sister’s side as they sat in wait for this doctor.
When he finally came, speaking kindly, Masaoko thought he couldn’t be all so bad. Until he pulled out that ridiculous needle and pierced her sister’s skin. Setsuna’s eyes watered, but in her defiance she did not cry. Whether it was to look brave for the stranger or to give courage to her little sister, Masaoko was unsure. The small girl gulped back fear, turning pale.
Her sister turned to her, concern, and suggest she go drink some water from the water fountain. An escape! Masaoko devised. She ducked out of the room quickly, but steered away from the water fountain. She’d run somewhere they couldn’t find her! No one would pierce Sanageyama Masaoko!
She searched hastily for somewhere to retreat where Kioku and Setsuna could not scold her. As she watched the halls, she found a place where doctors and nurses had to enter a code to open the door. She laid low, crouching behind a gurney waiting for a nurse to enter. When one did, she tiptoed behind the woman, slipping between the door just as it closed. No one seemed to notice the very small girl, whose head did not even reach over the counters.
Deeper into the ward she went, unable to turn back when the door locked her in. She peered through a glass door, seeing for the first time a room where other people sat and did various arts and crafts. The strangers seemed distant though. Their eyes like glass, only reflecting the creations they made. Shyly she opened the door, making sure it closed silently behind her.
She sat across from a boy with pretty hair. In fact, everything about him was beautiful. She couldn’t help but stare for a moment. Such sad beauty. Beautiful like her sister. Maybe even beautiful like her mother. She knew mama must of been beautiful if Setsuna was. After all, papa was plain like her. She shrunk in her chair, coming to from her thoughts. Staring was rude. She grabbed a sheet of paper, then realized the boy had all the colored pencils sitting next to him.
“Ummm… Can I… take? Some of those?” Her words were broken. The child’s cheeks bursted into a bright pink. She feared he did not understand her or that perhaps she had said the wrong words.
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No matter how secured a facility was, no matter the amount of technology one would place in it, or number of locked doors one could build, there was always be one small flaw that allowed every sneak thief the chance to slip in and cause harm. One flaw that is the very reason for any facility’s existence: Humanity. For they were nature’s homemade security breach against themselves. The easiest measure to bypass, as manipulation was their malware, and no password could protect their emotions. So when Ai’s overseer returned from doing Raiden knows what to see a little girl approach the boy and asking for a colored pencil, he realized he just became the largest failing security measure in the hospital.