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[mister_president]

Characters: Rufus Shinra and You.
Setting: Dormitory Floors, Cafeteria, Infirmary, Random Location.
Format: Starting with action then will follow
Summary: Rufus wakes up in the tower and starts analyzing the situation. He will be using his wheelchair all along and covering most of his face with a white sheet for the time being.
Warning: None. Well he is a politician of sort. You should always be wary of politicians.


Dormitory Floors
[ Rufus Shinra is still not sure what to make of the two letters he had read- On one hand if anything the end of Gaia is plausible, it's not far-fetched to imagine Sephiroth winning or some catastrophe happening. On the other hand, if such a cataclysm indeed happened the idea he alone survived was laughable at best.

So the truth probably lies elsewhere. Whatever, he'll find in time...

And lo, you will find a new resident of the tower going through the dormitory floors and headed for the elevator. Maybe unusual for a new resident, this one is currently sitting in a wheelchair and covered by a white sheet. He appears to be going around with ease in his wheelchair, so he probably has been stuck in it for a long time before his arrival. ]


Cafeteria (Floor One)
[ Directly out of the Elevator, Rufus goes and is served his oatmeal. Well, quality food is quite obviously not this tower's administrators most immediate worry. Whatsoever no possible comparison with the food he ate at the Shinra Building back in the times or more recently at Healen. Hmpf. That's a real shame.

Still, he'll eat it quickly and properly. After all the treatments he went through as of late, he's eaten worse before. ]


Infirmary (Floor Two)
[ Rufus will be stopping by the infirmary to see if they have his medicine- A modified stimulant used as a pain-killer for Geostigma. Ever since he woke up in this place the Geostigma has not bothered him, as if it was now in a dormant state... But you could never be too careful. ]


Random Location (Day Two Only)
[ On his second day in the tower, the President will go through various floors-- The safe ones only of course, such as the lodge, the libraries or even the meadow. Still in his wheelchair, sometimes he'll observe things around but won't stay for long at once place. ]

Comments

[mister_president]

Oh yes, he probably wouldn't recognize her immediately, he'd have to face her to-- Much time had passed, even more so considering where she went from. Even though the Shinra Alpha bangle gave a noticeable hint that this person had to be a Shinra employee, or at least someone who once was. The wheelchair stopped right as he heard the mention of the accursed disease.

"An accurate observation."

He looked down at his hand before slowly turning to her. No possible doubts now, with that voice and that face it had to be the martial arts expert from the Turks. Well, ex-Turk is probably more appropriate as she knows of Geostigma.

"It has been a long time."

[speaks_dirty]

The voice was familiar, it answered any questions she had in regards to his identity as well. It changed very little though, her opinion of ShinRa had never been very high since Zirconiade and even after he had started working with the WRO openly during the Lifestream resurrections.

"I saw enough of it up north a few years ago. And it hasn't been nearly as long as it has been for you."

Half a year since she was last in the tower, a month before that was the mission to Corel. She'd seen him around that time, when Tseng had called her about it.

[mister_president]

"I believe we all saw too much of this terrible disease."

Well, she was a Turk so he still got a pretty high opinion of her. Besides he was going to need her if he as to organize the Turks down the line. Thankfully he'd been informed by Reno of the things he had to expect so this didn't surprise him half as much as it should

"When was the last time you saw me?"

[speaks_dirty]

"Depends. Before I came here, a couple hours. Give or take. Then the admins sent me back to what's left of Gaia and I just finished spending a six month long vacation there."

She'd argue until she was blue in the face that she was an ex-Turk. That being recalled to duty, as far as she was concerned, didn't make her a Turk again. That she had followed Tseng's and Veld orders out of respect and a sense of duty to her friends and Gaia. All of this goes unsaid though and will stay unsaid.

"It's been years since I saw an outbreak of Geostigma."

[mister_president]

"So what Reno told me about the timelines is true. Where I come from, geostigma is at its peak..."

That was all pretty bad news. Six month vacation on what's left of Gaia? he had hoped Reno was wrong, but as she was a urk as well... He'd sigh and shake his head slowly.

"Well, I suppose you confirm that the lifestream left Gaia."

[speaks_dirty]

"And I'm from when the Lifestream was resurrecting the dead. And not people we would have wanted."

You know. Hojo, Sephiroth, the Remnants. People like that, plus a few desirables like Zack and Aerith. And Siira would insist that it's ex-Turk until she was blue in the face.

"I can and it is. I traveled all the way down to where Mideel had been and there's nothing."