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it takes a second for it to sink in that of all the people she might have encountered here, it would be her fool of an older brother. or, well, normally that's what she'd think of it, but right now relief is washing over her because there's someone familiar here, someone safe and... well, yes, he could be irritating, but he's still family. she realizes that most of all, that's what she needed during her internment. a reason, someone she was doing it for, not just herself on her lonesome.[break][break]

maki files that away to unpack later, like everything else she's experienced recently. "...ogre," she corrects him. "not a bus." she stops leaning on him, and staggers toward the door. she doesn't have the key. where's the damn key...? growling in frustration at being kept from her own home, and knowing she wasn't thoughtless enough to leave a spare under the welcome mat... she lifts a foot and slams it into the door. slam. slam. sweat rolls down her forehead as she kicks it, hard, each kick reigniting the flames in her breast indicative of extensive damage to her ribs.[break][break]

this, of course, does not work. seiichi has probably never seen her so disheveled. she clutches her chest and groans, looking back at him, giving up on breaking the door down in her current condition. "...call dr. igarashi," she tells him, referring to their "family doctor" who has always treated her on the sly. "no... no hospital. i can't... no one can know i was there."

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