Another Unfamiliar Ceiling [COMPLETED]

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Character(s): Asuka, Rei, Death.
Content: After a frightening loss of sanity, Yuki took Asuka to the hospital, where she now awakens.
Setting: Aiches Memorial Hospital [H4]
Time: Early morning Wednesday.
Warnings: None.

She awakes to a white world.

White, sterile white, that familiar shade of huelessness, blank canvas walls like ghosts onto which shadows project.

For Asuka, waking up in the hospital is like reliving Groundhog Day. The same white walls, the same clinical odor clawing at her nostrils, the same pangs in her limbs as she rises to launch into battle again.

Except here there is no battle, and with that fact there is no purpose, and with no purpose, no reason for Asuka to be.

She tries not to think about it. She tries not to think about the fact that this hospital doesn't smell particularly medical, either; the air smells more like incense, or some kind of herb. The shattered candy swimmingness in her head seems to have cleared a little, anyway, though she still thinks the hospital walls would look a lot nicer painted a pretty shade of red. She giggles a little, lightly, to herself, though the motion stings her chest, and she soon has to lay back and draw breath.

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It is quite a relief to find one so joyful about life; people like the nurse is getting much too rare for Death's liking. Perhaps if there are more people like the nurse, Desire's twin would not have to be so busy. But she should save that thought for later, now she needs to somehow pay the hospital two hundred dollars or the equivalent. Death's right hand is toying around with the red cent in her pocket while she tries to think of a solution.

"Hmm... any currency?" Death puts a finger to her lips in thought. She wonders if she can do that thing her brother likes to do; granting boons to people and stuff, it sounds rather cool. "Can I pay you with deeds?" Death asks with a sweet smile, "a boon, perhaps?"

She really hopes that her offer would be accepted, but if the nurse rejects it, then Death will probably need to get a job somewhere in town and earn money. That doesn't sound too bad, really, if she gets a job as a waitress then she will be able to meet lots of people! May I know how you are related to them, miss? Death is not related to mortals in anyway except for the fact that they are her boss, perhaps. She ponders on the question for awhile before replying, "They're my friends," and flashing a grin, "really good friends!" Everyone is her really good friend.