Canon Move 3

[sotobas_lot]

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It'd be too much to ask for these things to stick to my actual patients? It isn't like progress is being made, either way.

Some people call this thing sentient. Is it trying to make the point that I'm an incompetent quack?

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[onesnipe.livejournal.com]

But you're doing the best you can.

[sotobas-lot.livejournal.com]

It's my job.

[onesnipe.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's more than that. Most doctors would have stopped trying by now and you haven't. I know lives are at stake here, but just... take a break before you overexert yourself.

[sotobas-lot.livejournal.com]

Right now there's nothing I can do but that. Doctors can't force patients to come in.

[onesnipe.livejournal.com]

You don't have anything else that can be examined for the time being?

[sotobas-lot.livejournal.com]

The cause was found. Testing solutions takes willing, live subjects.

[onesnipe.livejournal.com]

... What was the cause?

[sotobas-lot.livejournal.com]

It's pretty laughable...

[onesnipe.livejournal.com]

Tell me, anyway.

[sotobas-lot.livejournal.com]

Okiagari. "The Risen." That's more of a local legend, though... To put it in more common terms, zombies. Or maybe more like vampires.

[onesnipe.livejournal.com]

How did you figure that out?

[sotobas-lot.livejournal.com]

That's another joke.

I had to have the answer handed to me by somebody else, a sick, twisted bastard who had as much... No, less data than I did.

[onesnipe.livejournal.com]

How did you know he was right, then?

[sotobas-lot.livejournal.com]

It's an answer that fits and explains everything. If something like this community or like him exists, I can't just say that magic doesn't exist when it's the obvious answer.

[onesnipe.livejournal.com]

Do you stand a chance, then...?

[sotobas-lot.livejournal.com]

I must, or they wouldn't still be hiding or working covertly. There is that.

[onesnipe.livejournal.com]

Don't monsters and all that get stronger after a while? And along with the growing death count... the sooner the better, basically.

I'm sorry that there's nothing you can do about it for now.

[sotobas-lot.livejournal.com]

Sooner or later they'd be out of people to feed on, I'd imagine. It'd be smartest for them to go in cycles in order for victims to recuperate, like crop rotations. Unless they're specifically trying to kill...