Ryn raised an eyebrow at the other woman. She'd have thought it was obvious that "what happened to your eye?" was addressed at the one person at the table with an obvious eye injury. Though it looked like her eyes were an unusual colour as well. Red had never a popular colour for eye modifications; something about being untrustworthy. Ryn wasn't sure. It wasn't her colour, so she'd never bothered with it, and that had been that. 

Perhaps she was used to people commenting on her eyes. Yes, it was probably that, she thought wryly. It couldn't [i]possibly[/i] be because she was a basket case who thought people were talking to her when they weren't, not at all. 

She was interrupted by a rabbit landing on the table. Its colouring didn't look natural; it looked more like the custom-engineered pets she'd seen on the inner worlds. It was amazing how much rich people with money to burn would pay for rabbits with pink fur or cone-shaped bodies. 

[i]Is this a mental hospital or a zoo?[/i]

The rabbit began squeaking. At the same time something began "pinging" her energy fields, for want of a better word. There was a pattern to them, she realised: each tap was part of a set of others, each set corresponded to a general idea...

{[i]Excitement! Curiosity.elaboration?[/i]}

...that told her nothing. Maybe she'd just...talk to it. Like it was a person. Though with her luck it would turn out to be a biological surveillance device or something along those lines which would hack her mind. God, if this continued she'd end up just as crazy as everyone else here. 

"My name is Ryn," she said clearly. "This is some kind of mental hospital. I don't know anything else; I only just got here." She turned to the other two at the table, about to ask them what they made of it, when the white-haired woman stood up abruptly, knocking her chair over. 

When she opened her mouth, Ryn realised the woman was much crazier than she'd thought. 

That wouldn't do. She laid a hand on the woman's shoulder. Disrupt brain functions for a bit, allow hospital staff to do the rest–

Ryn froze as the woman's biology snapped into her consciousness. It was different; every part operating at a much higher efficiency than any human she'd encountered. Her first thought was that she'd miscalculated terribly, that another one like her was in this place...

Her next thought, immediately after the first, was that she couldn't influence it. 

But she could still shape herself. 

The auxiliary mouths grew from her fingers, teeth lengthening as she added keratin from her nails. They stabbed into the woman's skin. Not sharp enough to do serious harm, but maybe enough to bring her to her senses. 

"Everyone knows that," she yelled. "Now snap out of it. Can't you see how ridiculous you look?"