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[Red appears to be his normal self, nothing off about him at all! He looks a bit uneasy as he heads down a hallway near the more populated areas, but other than that, everything's the same as always.

A few halls away, something vaguely resembling Red is shuffling along, head down. He looks emaciated, all pasty skin and bone, with tangled hair falling to his ears instead of his shoulders. He doesn't have a shirt on, just a pair of pants torn off at the knee, which gives off a full view of the complete mess he is. Thick, messily done stitches stretch over sluggishly bleeding incisions all over his front and back, and a hole in the crook of his arm is leaking something an acidic green.]

(ooc: I give you the aspect removed from Red: the experiments.)

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I thought so.

[She wasn't sure if it was more specific than that. Dark parts, something like that. But this much makes sense.]

So the Red you know is out there without his scars.

[At least, the ones he didn't get here.]

[She frowns deeply, remembering them with some discomfort. Scars are scars, but... It's easy to forget where they came from on someone else. She goes quiet for a bit, just concentrating on stitches.]

When I finish this I'm going to call him. To let him know what he's missing.

He might know already.

[Hard to miss the scars being gone and all, not to mention some of his abilities.]

Then I'll let him know where you are, because I'm sure he'd want to.

[He might not do anything about it, and maybe even shouldn't, but... she'd want to know. She's over half done with the stitches now.]

I still don't know where mine is.

[He just snorts, looking grimly amused.]

Why would he want to? It doesn't matter, as long as no one sees me.

I saw you.

[You know, in case he missed that part. She finishes up with that stitch and shifts up to look. Only about three more to go.]

He won't mind that. You already know things about him.

[That no one else does, he means. It's always different when it's Riku.]

I think I'd like to talk to him anyway.

[Because, you know. Red. She feels the same way about him, too.]

I'm almost done with this one.

Alright.

[Normally the counter would be getting uncomfortable by now, but, well. At least that's kind of a good thing right now.]

[Yeah, she's going to let him take a break before she starts on the next one. She'll be quiet as she finishes it up, just... not having anything else to say. When she's done she'll gently clean them and pull away to shove some things aside.]

Go ahead and sit up. I'm going to call him now, so you've got time before I do anything else. If you'll still let me.

Might as well.

[He sits up slowly, leaving behind several sticky reddish-black spots on the counter from along his spine.]

[She rinses and wipes her hands off on a fresh towel, then pulls her phone out of her pocket and dials Red's number. She hasn't turned back to him yet.]

[That's okay, he hasn't noticed it at all.

Red picks up immediately, by the way.]

Hey.

Hey. There's something you might want to know-- What the fuck? What happened?

[WHY IS THERE BLOOD EVERYWHERE.]

What?

[Red sounds a bit alarmed, and the one with Riku just blinks at her in confusion before looking to see what she's freaking out about- oh. Shrug!]

[She switches to holding the phone between her ear and her shoulder, using both hands to force him to turn around. So much for caring about his permission.]

Why didn't you tell me you were bleeding? I wouldn't have- oh man. Red, hang on, I need to clean this up.

Who's bleeding?

[He grunts but lets himself be moved, completely resigned to her manhandling.]

I didn't know I was.

[She feels bad about that, but she's grabbing a cloth to clean it with anyway, and some alcohol.]

You know the spell going on?

Hard to miss it.

[He's staying still for her. If he could feel the touches, he would probably have the faintest tremble to him, but thankfully for the both of them that's not happening.]

... I found yours.

[She's trying not to sound hesitant when she says that, and failing miserably. Maybe he'll just think she's distracted taking care of that bleeding.]

Oh.

[There's a long pause, during which the experiment Red lets out a hoarse chuckle.]

And he's bleeding.

Yeah. He is. I'm... Have you-- Do you know?

[He already knows it's the wolf, for her. And Riku was convinced at first that it was just the DR toying with her at first, but they've both since discovered it was a spell, and Red presumably has figured out how it works enough to make guesses about his own.

He'll probably hear the sound of packages being shredded open as Riku fumbles for bandages.]

I can probably guess.

[And he doesn't sound too pleased about it, but if anyone had to find that, he's glad it was Riku.]

I figured.

[She knew he wouldn't be happy. But she'd want to know, if it were her. She does carefully put some bandages along his spine, worrying over whether or not she should do anything else for them.]

So I'm guessing you haven't seen mine yet.