Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25169271-20160320185624/@comment-24828824-20170910222006

Merel and Helena watched as Alice seemed to completely shut down or withdraw at the sight of medical equipment. Merel noted it likely wasn't the first time this happened and shuddered at the thought of what caused such a reaction from Alice. She had never expected to see this from Alice, or really to be this involved in the lives of people she only barely knew until a few days ago.

Helena was more visibly shocked at Alice's reaction to entering the medical office and took an involuntary step back, again taken off guard by the sudden change in the girl's personality whenever the demons of her past resurfaced.

"What had those monsters done to her?" at a loss for words she just watched as nurse Valentine slowly managed to get some life back into the girl with appearant practice at managing this particular problem. It made Helena re-evaluate her idea of the doctor, realizing she knew Alice much better than Helena herself could claim.

Merel was reminded by this reaction of the rare times her father would be reminded of her parents at an unguarded moment. He always tried to hide it from Merel but to her it wasn't hard to notice that brief moment where his face would flash with the pained realization of loss when they had been practicing with her swords and for a moment she had looked just enough like her mother to make him forget her fate. Unlike Alice and Helena Merel and her father knew for a fact what had happened to Merel's biological parents. The grim thought was thankfully interrupted as doctor Valentine continued.