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Livia quietly listened, moving back as she watched him pick at the food, she grimaced as he spit the soda out, someone would eventually be by to clean it up, but she frowned. “I thought it was strange the first time I tasted it too.” Livia remarked in english once more, seemingly the common language they both spoke, though the language was strange, and foreign to her, since she mostly spoke either Argosian, or Taiyou in affairs in the Galaxy. “They call it ‘Ramune’ (rah-moon-ay), I remember tasting it the first time I came here.” Livia remarked with a slight smile.

“The food here takes some getting used to, too.” Livia added, gesturing down to the squid. The orderly that brought them their food had already departed, but Livia could call down to the food court to have something else brought up that might be more palatable to the medieval viking.

Quietly, Livia listened to his story, and she didn’t react visibly when he managed to snap the other restraint before she could undo it, the leather made a popping sound as it separated from the bed, and to that sound, a figure in dark blue, and black stepped into the room from outside, carrying a strange looking weapon holstered at his hip, the man had on a ballcap that had strange symbols emblazoned in white on the front, dark blue BDU shirt, and pants, with a dark gray vest worn over it, the vest sported a series of white symbols across it, latinized english letters that read ISSP, and Taiyou characters under it that read “Special Police Unit.” The man rested his hand on the sidearm holstered at his hip, but made no threatening gestures. Quickly, Livia signalled with her hand that all was safe, and the man nodded, before returning to the hallway. By his body language, and demeanor, he was clearly a guard of some kind, posted outside the room to make sure everything was safe.

Livia was familiar with crucifixions, she had presided over thousands of them, and she knew how brutal they could be, but this brutality was beyond even what the Argosians usually did unless they opted to make a point, and the extent of the man’s wounds meant whoever this King Aella was less than merciful.

“Well, this King cannot reach you here.” Livia commented, walking around the bed, and opening the window to let some of the natural light in, the clouds had blown away to reveal a vast cityscape, towering glass skyscrapers stretched into the cloud layer, among white puffy clouds, and the entire cityscape had a white sheen of freshly laid snow. Livia also reached for the remote, to turn the television set on, the news anchor speaking in Taiyou, as strange text scrolled on the bottom of the screen. They were talking about a young man, an image of the young man flashed across the screen, a snake-like arrogance played on his face. The image was brief as the man delivered a short statement in Taiyou to a small crowd of reporters, the television then shifted to a variety show of some kind.

“You’ll probably be stuck here a few more days, so I’ll try my best to answer any questions you have. You’re in a place called Niihama, it’s very far away from where I found you.” Livia said, trying to figure out how to best explain space travel. She knew a little bit about Viking lore from her previous encounters, so she pondered a moment, and then she picked up the phone, saying something briefly in Taiyou.

A moment passed, and the door chimed again, this time a middle aged man in all white walked in. He wore white pants, a white laboratory coat, along with a white surgical mask covering his face, and a white surgical cap that covered his salt and pepper hair, of which only the sideburns could be seen. The man also wore a simple, but stylish set of glasses, and had a stethoscope around his neck, and a nametag. Unlike the nurse, he did not have a cross on his outfit, but a simple Kana symbol embroidered above the right breast pocket, and the university’s logo.

“Hello.” He said in heavily accented english. “I am Doctor Takanaka.” He said, introducing himself. “I am the surgeon that attended to you, I see you are healing nicely.” He said with a hint of pride as he approached the bed.

“How are you feeling?” The doctor asked. Livia offered a smile as well, explaining something to the doctor in Taiyou, causing the doctor to simply nod.

“Your wounds were very serious, but I think you make full recovery.” Dr. Takanaka added.