Recollection

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The woman awakes.

Her surroundings are unfamiliar.

No. There's a scent. A smell that is not new to her, but old. Very old. It has the horrid displeasure of being neither comforting or scary. It is just known.

"How's your head?"

A gentle voice is addressing her.

Her false mismatched eyes moved to rest on a male.
An older gentleman of pale ragged skin was beside her
with a warm smile across his lips.
He sets a tray down on the side table, 

contents of steaming hot tea from the look of it.

She knows this face, doesn't she? So why is she not happy to see it?

"Doctor...F-Foster?"

"Yes. You collapsed after we arrived here. Can you handle a warm beverage right now?"

The man was gentle in his speech, saying everything in a slow pace for her mind to grasp.
He removed his coat, tossing it to a nearby chair.

Sitting up once her strength was gathered,
the woman makes note of her surroundings.

She's in a large room filled with artwork and unremarkable furnishings.

It is not the place she was before.

"Where am I?"

"We are at my apartment. For the time anyway. You gave me quite a scare when you collapsed, little fox."

She takes the cup of tea,

sipping slowly so as to not burn her tongue.

Slowly it returns to her. She'd been taken.
Escorted away after the doctor had attacked another hybrid.

"I'm sorry. I'm not sure what came over me."

"It's alright."

The man gives her a light kiss on her forehead before returning to his seat upon the wooden floor.

"So 609, I must ask. Why did you leave me?"

Loyalty

When do you begin to question those you follow?
Is it when they do something you view as wrong?
Is it when they say something that offends you?
Is it both?

I find myself wondering that at the end of the day. Ayr changed. He changed in a way none of us have seen him do before. A common thing for him to say was that he was far from nice or kind and I think a fragment of that other side was revealed.

It was a request. The Pack was to gather people and bring them to the circle he had made. I'd spent a good portion of the day chasing down another hybrid who had attacked one of our employees. Lana had been pursuing the rat hybrid the most, but that day I was available. All the nights of roaming the sewers paid off in a way and yet they didn't. It took us forever to track him and after all was said and done, we ended up taking a different rat hybrid altogether. That and we were covered in Midian's thick filth.

Thank god for Ashagi's sanitation procedures. The lab had to be scrubbed down several times just to clean the muck we tracked in. I left right after this upon getting a message from Ayr that the ritual was starting.