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shylarahSapphire Rode - Just outside the Infirmary
Sapphire rolled her eyes as Cobalt gave her the dictionary definition of Embodiment. Of course she knew what it meant, what did he think she was an idiot. That was not the problem here. The problem was where she'd seen it before. She felt certain it was another tattoo, on someone... her instincts told her brown hair but she couldn't place exactly what she was thinking of.
Oswald tried to reassure Cobalt that he what Sapphire had said in the courtyard was not about him, it was simply good operating procedure. Of course Oswald was right, it hadn't looked like the boy had broken bones or internal bleeding, he'd just looked utterly worn out. To the point of complete exhaustion. Then again for all they knew he'd had three broken ribs and was hemorrhaging. It was better to play it safe.
The reassurance sort of lost its effectiveness halfway through as Oswald broke down. He wasn't wrong either, what had happened to the boy was barbaric and it was sick but pronouncing those to the corridor wouldn't do anyone any good. Sapphire was taken completely by surprise when Oswald asked about Pops. It was certainly possible, the bear faunus definitely possessed the medical knowledge to do what had been done to the boy. Then again simple stitches were not difficult to do, especially if you didn't care about the health of the patient. It couldn't be said for certain that the boy's attacker had been a practiced surgeon, he could just as easily have been a butcher with a needle and thread.
"I don't think so. Pops was altruistic and extremely naive. He saw what he was doing as the work of the ancients. If something had gone wrong with one of his experiments he'd more likely treat the injured than sew there mouths shut and dump them in the wilderness. I doubt Pops is..." Sapphire trailed off as something stirred in her memory. Right before she'd battled Pops (and lost miserably) there was that girl, a coyote faunus and... Sapphire struggled to remember her face. Yes, curved around the outline of her eye, the word Embodiment just as stark and clear as on the boy's face.
That day had been a whirlwind of adrenaline, fighting and hiding. It wasn't surprising that Sapphire was a bit hazy on the details. "I don't think it was Pops. He didn't seem like the sort but I remember now. One of his test subjects, a girl, Sienna I think her name was. She had the same tattoo as that kid, curved under her eye" Sapphire drew her finger over the area marking it for the other two. "But definitely the same tattoo. She wasn't on the island when the emergency services made it out there either. But she had a speed semblance so I just assumed she made it off okay. You think there's a connection?"
