Livia turned her attention to the portrait after she had been interrupted by Ragnar's inquiry. "That is His Imperial Majesty, Nobuo Takayama." The legata answered, with a modicum of respect for him it seemed as her eyes fell onto the portrait at the end of the room. "He was the Emperor of this place, until his death just recently. His Son, Shimizu, is the current ruling monarch, but this Hospital was named after Nobuo because he was the greatest donor." Livia explained. "He is what you might call a great king who oversees this place, Niihama, which is his kingdom." Livia took great care to explain thing in terms the norseman could understand.
Her gaze moved to the television set, which showed a young man with long black hair combed, and frayed to the side, he was slender, wearing a suit and tie, and was addressing a crowd of reporters in a language similar to the one used by Livia, and the doctors. The man was speaking with an arrogant tone, demeaning whoever he was speaking about, Livia grimaced slightly. "That is the current ruling monarch, Shimizu." Livia said nothing further on the matter, rather she opted to explain a few other things.
"An Apartment is like a house, a large building where there are many houses, we have them on Argos, where many families can share one roof, pooling their money into a shared pot to pay for the property." Livia said, trying her best to explain the communal housing, but instead moved to the curtains, and pulled them aside to let a lot more light into the room, and give Ragnar a better look to the city outside.
"Lots of those buildings are apartments." Livia explained. "Mine is in another part of the city, close to the Imperial Palace."
She watched him eat quietly for a moment, taking time to move around the room, looking at all the equipment, the Doctors had left them alone for a time, but Livia figured she would try to at least get him out of the bed, and moving around. So she opted for the wheelchair that was sitting outside of the hospital room. With one smooth movement, and the scuffling of her shoes on the polished linoleum floor, she grabbed the wheelchair, and slowly started to wheel it into the room. The ISSP officer standing just outside the room paid them no heed, and Livia rolled the wheelchair over by the bathroom, which contained a shower, toilet with bidet, and some sanitary supplies.
Livia rested her gaze back on Ragnar, he was a curious man, unusually calm for the situation they found themselves in, from her previous encounter with men like him, it resulted in battle, and it resulted in conflict for the Taiyou. The Taiyou were especially apprehensive about having another one of their number on Niihama, but Livia had assured them that she would not allow anything to happen.
"You seem to be taking this surprisingly well." Livia remarked, with a slight smile. "You took it a lot better than I did when I found out about this place."
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Outside, along a bench in one of the hospital's many cooridors, people went about their business paying no heed to the girl seated on the bench, the hospital was afterall a busy place.