Please Wake Me Up

[Brian]

After about an hour at building number nine, Tim is roused from a dreamless sleep by some sort of commotion.  When Tim looks out the window of the room he's staying in (currently occupied by only himself), he sees an unfamiliar face.  There's a young asian boy with very grim features stoically marching up the street with a girl on his back, using an IV stand that appears to be connected to her as a walking stick.

[Halbarad]

Tim quickly hurries out of the building, concern written on his face. "Are you all right?"

[Brian]

The kid jumps back and his eyes widen a bit.  He calms himself, but not before Tim spots one hand heading towards a pocket (and possibly a concealed weapon).  Nodding, he asks, in stilted and accented English, "You are a medicine person?"

[Halbarad]

"No, I'm sorry," Tim says, frowning a bit at the accent.

Well, coincidence is going haywire, so no harm in trying.

Switching over to Japanese, he speaks (moderately well). "Are you Japanese?"

[Brian]

"Yes," he replies curtly in the same.  "My sister needs a healer.  Where can I find one?"

[Halbarad]

"No, but I can take you to someone who should be able to help you," Tim replies. "Come with me."

Heading back to building 9, he opens the door and immediately begins calling for Wallace.

[Brian]

Wallace is in the living room, reading a book, and looks up when called.  "Oh," he says, seeing the girl.

"You're a healer?" the boy asks in Japanese.

Wallace stares at him blankly for a moment before saying (in English), "Set her on the bed in room two.  Mark wanted to explore this place a bit, so the room is empty."

Nodding, the kid does as instructed, and sets the girl down on the bed, thereafter collapsing into a sitting position and staring at her.  Now that Tim can get a better look at the kids, they look very similar -- they might be twins, beneath that dust.  Their hair is dark, the boy's unruly, and the girl's bound back with an elastic band into a pony-tail.  She seems at peace, and is breathing.  The boy is wearing a denim jacket over a T-shirt and somewhat ragged (and very grimy) jeans.  The girl is wearing a Japanese schoolgirl's uniform, and after Wallace brushes some dust away, her legs both turn out to be in a very form-fitting casts.

The IV connected to her is nearly depleted, but Wallace removes that carefully, before setting his hands on the girl's stomach.  They emit a soft blue glow, and the girl mumbles something, stirring softly, before falling back to sleep.

"She'll need a lot of rest," Wallace says, shaking his head.  "What happened?"

[Halbarad]

"I don't know," Tim replies. Turning to the young man, he switches to Japanese. "What happened to bring you here?"

[Brian]

"Nng," the boy replies, before passing out right there on the floor.

Wallace bends over to examine him, but then rises, and shakes his head.  "He's not hurt," the large man assesses.  "But he's completely drained."

[Halbarad]

"Well, that explains everything," Tim says with a snort. "Is there another free bed we can put him in?"

[Brian]

"For the moment," Wallace says, picking up the boy and carrying him to the next room.  "We'll be tight on space for a while, it looks like."

As he says this, Bjorn, Tom, Parthipan, and Phil enter the building.

[Brian]

Bjorn catches sight of Wallace setting Tetsuo on a bed as he enters building number nine.  Tim is in the hallway, apparently mid-conversation with the man.

[Bjorn]

Bjorn surveys the scene -- Wallace carrying the unconcious Tetsuo, the girl lying unmoving on the bed -- and pronounces, "I'm assuming that things are going alright here."

[Halbarad]

"Near as I can tell," Tim replies. "I don't know who they are, but hopefully we can get some more info once he wakes up. Do you know him?"

[Bjorn]

"A yakuza," Bjorn says.  "Paul saved his butt from the Cabal, if I remember rightly.  And that's his sister, who is also presumably yakuza, and I don't know what happened to her."

He jerks a thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the street outside.  "I came to tell him that the people following him weren't actually following him, if you know what I mean.  I'm guessing he doesn't care much at the moment, though."