[h2][color=421A8C]Sapphire Rode[/color] - Infirmary[/h2]
When Sapphire pulled the curtain back the tiger boy was apparently surprised and a bit alarmed. He jumped away from where she was standing and took up a defensive stance. Sapphire took one step back, pivoting on her ankle to present a smaller target and held her arms up in a fighting stance ready if one were to come. Granted in both these conditions it was not advisable and the stance she'd adopted was putting a painful amount of pressure on her set rib but if he wanted to start a fight Sapphire would be more than happy to oblige.

Sapphire realized a second later that his fighting stance was likely just a gut reaction to the fast move of the curtains for he broke it a second later. Sapphire held her just a little longer to make sure he wouldn't try anything before she straightened releasing the pressure on ribs. Sapphire noticed the tiger boy eyeing her hands, or more specifically the scars that lined them. By taking up that stance without gloves she'd exposed them to open light. Sapphire lowered her hands to her sides and was relieved when his eyes didn't follow.

When he actually began to speak however it was like an avalanche of information that she did not care to know and didn't really pay attention to. Sapphire caught the general gist of it but he could have expressed it so much more concisely, rather than using eighteen paragraphs and about five minutes she would never get back he could simply have said 'I heard yelling and was worried, are you alright?' Sapphire did catch him eye the scars on her hands again when he mentioned being worried there was an accident. Sapphire averted eye contact as she tried to shove her hands into her pockets before realizing that the hospital gowns didn't have pockets. She then contented herself with clasping them behind her back so the scars wouldn't be visible.

He sort of broke off his train of thought after mentioning her eyes. Of course they were still red and puffy but there wasn't a whole lot she could do about that. He must have seen the dangerous warning spark that alighted in her eyes when he got close to mentioning her crying. Likely what made him back off, side stepping the issue rather completely.

What really surprised her was when he introduced himself. They'd done this before, in the moment of quiet before the mech attack everyone had taken names Sapphire hadn't really paid attention to the names given at the time but he was acting like this was their first meeting. His was something like Khakan Shire or something. Kuhaku Shiro that was it, not that it mattered much.

[color=0054a6]"Yeah I know,"[/color] she said giving him a look that amounted to 'where'd you leave your brain?' [color=0054a6]"You already introduced yourself. What happened, too much catnip?"[/color] She looked at his outstretched hand ready for a shake and crossed her own over her chest in a clear expression that she wasn't going to shake it. She might as well give him her name again since his brain had been fried. [color=0054a6]"Sapphire Rode."[/color]

Inwardly she winced, why could she never remember to just use her first name? Every time someone heard her last name it became, [i]'are you related to the Hunter Janus Rode?' 'What's he like?' 'What was growing up with a celebrity like?'[/i] and similar. Sapphire had never once wanted to talk about her father, or her family for that matter. Right now, Cecily her older sister was at art school and Demetra her younger sister was staying with their mother's parents. They were content, it wasn’t as if Janus was around that much these days anyways. Not after the kind of father he'd been to the three of them.