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[color=mediumspringgreen]"Better now,"[/color] she lied. Taking a deep breath to steel herself, she tried once again to push herself up, gritting her teeth against the pain. After what felt like an eternity, she was finally sitting, leaning against the wall. She looked down at her hands in her lap – both had deep purple bruises circling her wrists, but she saw now how angry and red her right hand looked, the color gradually fading higher up on her arm. After effects of Sebastian's poison, she supposed. 

[color=mediumspringgreen]"I'm um… sorry about what happened at New Sun,"[/color] she tried awkwardly. She'd heard the news about the New Sun building and the battle on her way here. It was the biggest news in the city, and impossible to miss. [color=mediumspringgreen]"If you… knew anyone there or…"[/color] She trailed off, uncertain. Glancing around at the floor around her bed, she continued, [color=mediumspringgreen]"Thank you for, y'know… helping me. I'll be ok."[/color]

Aya'd originally come here in a fit of desperation, traumatized from the torture, but now thinking about it with a clearer head… what had she been thinking? She had to make sure she never ran into Sebastian again, but to go to the Reformists? Aya'd managed to stay out of Meta politics for this long, and it looked like they were gearing up for an all-out war now. She'd told them what she'd needed to, and now it was time to escape this madness while she had the chance.

[color=mediumspringgreen]"…Where did my bag go?"[/color]

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Max looked down when she mentioned New Sun, but shook his head and started smiling again. "No, no, it's okay. He, uh, he can take care of himself. As for your bag, I had it brought to a room. I figured, since you brought it, you might be staying with us a few days. I don't care if you're meta or not, personally, but we want to at least make sure that Sebastien guy isn't going to be coming after you. Set you up with witness protection, if you want it. The boss has contacts in the FBI. That, and we were hoping you could give us a detailed description of exactly what happened between you and that blood freak."