Melting Clock: Quarantine

[cityship]

After Sam Henderson's announcement, the Contagion Containment and Treatment lab was going to get busy. Anyone suspected of being affected by the mysterious affliction would be brought here, and put into one of the large bubbles that would keep any potential contagious diseases in - and the patients themselves. Once in inside, they wouldn't be able to get out again until the Medical staff had cleared them.

And before they could do that, they needed to find out what was causing this - and why.

They had a lot of hard work ahead of them.

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*Hires pirates just in case*

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

"Gotcha." Cagalli followed, looking around a bit nervously - covering it up with a harsh tone. "Cagalli Yula Atha."

*epic war in the brewing...*

[encourage]

Sakura input her name, guessing at spelling. When a file came up, she figured she'd gotten it close enough. "We'll have you staying in here for the moment." She stopped by an open bubble, half-turning to look at Cagalli. "Current age?"

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

Cagalli tapped her feet as she waited, not nearly as friendly or patient as she'd been with Sakura before.

"Sixteen." It should be Eighteen.

[encourage]

Sakura noted the discrepancy, motioning for Cagalli to enter the open containment unit. "I see," she said. "Records have you listed as eighteen." She looked up at the other woman, fully facing her now. "Have you experienced any kind of disorientation with people or occurrences here onboard the ship recently?"

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

...eighteen. Two years, not that much of a difference. Right? "My brother Kira's taller than me by more than I remember, but he's a guy. He probably just hit his growth spurt while he was on the ship." She was still sticking by this explanation for her own peace of mind.

[encourage]

"It's possible," Sakura allowed. Not likely, but definitely possible. "How old is your brother?"

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

"The same age. We're twins." Though being in the pods long probably made him older, physically. It was an odd thought.

[encourage]

"... Human males do reach puberty later in their teen years than females." Not to mention people tended to continue growing into their twenties. "You have your omnicomm with you?"

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

She nodded, at both the statement and the question, and held out her omnicomm. "Why do you need it?"

[encourage]

"Ah, I don't actually." Sakura held up one hand, apologetic. "I wanted to be sure you had it on you. We're making sure everyone has their omnicomm with them while in Quarantine. Monitoring for potential transmission of time-loss doesn't mean we want to keep anyone out of contact with the ship at large."

This was all precautionary, not a silence and stifle mission.

She smiled. "Probably less boring that way, too."

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

Cagalli nodded, smiling. "At least I'll be able to talk to people until we're done here. Thanks."

[encourage]

"You're welcome. Hopefully this will all be figured out soon."

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

"I sure hope so. I mean, if it kept going on..." She didn't want to even think about it actually being true, but if it was, the consequences sucked.

[encourage]

"It won't. We'll make sure things won't follow through down to the wire." Sakura had absolute faith in that fact.

Or she had to at least fake it very, very well. She didn't choose to allow the thought of anyone aging out of existence to settle in the forefront of her mind. It could haunt the back of it all it liked, but by fire, at least then she'd mostly be dealing with it in her nightmares.

[allnaturalseed.livejournal.com]

All she could do for now was hope that everyone else got to the bottom of this, then. Which sucked, because she liked helping out with her own two hands, but such is life. "...good luck then, I guess."

[encourage]

"... Thank you." They'd need it. Sakura half turned her head, looking toward some of the other medical workers here in Quarantine. "Call me over, or send me a message on my omnicomm, if there's anything you end up wanting later. Within reason, I'll do what I can to get it to you." She turned back to Cagalli. "We'll have someone coming by to interview you in the near future, to get an idea of where you were down on XaXing, and what you've been doing the last few weeks."