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[The hospital. Not Shirou's favorite place in the world. But when he got Rin back safely from that wrecked ship, it was the only place he could think of to take her. At least there, the nurses could get her out of her wet clothes and monitor her condition until she awoke.

Not that that did much for Shirou's mental well-being. After changing out of his own wet clothes, he returned to the hospital out of concern for his friend. At varying points, before Rin wakes up, Shirou can be found in the hallways or in the cafeteria.]

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[Shirou is sitting in a chair near the bed in which Rin lay. He's been here for a little while, as evidenced by his nodding off.]

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Yeah...

...

Hey, you deal with magic. How much have you had to deal with, uh... monsters? Youkai. Stuff like that.

...Eh? I've only dealt with monsters out in the wild here. I don't remember anything like that back home.

I see.

...

Well, I guess you can't really help me on that front. But I should let you know that there's some nasty blue creatures that I've run into here that are pretty tough. Maybe you could punch through them, but... just in case, you should probably avoid them if you see them. Find a place to hide or... something. They're vicious.

Blue creatures? What kind of creatures are these?

I can't honestly give you a lot of specifics, because I don't know them. Some of them can be humanoid, others can be anything but. They've all got the same sort of unnervingly asymmetrical faces, I know that much. I can't even tell you exactly how smart they are because it seems to vary. But you don't want to meet one.

Can you tell me what about them makes them so dangerous?

I know, at least, that I've seen my roommate's... magic bounce right off them. They're relentless, and they seem to just show up out of nowhere. I... I feel like there's more to it, I just... don't really remember yet. I know dying around them only makes things worse for whoever's left alive, but I don't remember WHY I know that yet. It's very frustrating.

...Okay. Yeah, if they can't get hurt, that's a problem.

But...why would you have that feeling from creatures that are in this world?

...

...

Because they originally...

...came from mine.

...What? But...how?

I wish I knew, honestly. It might be some sort of side effect of the transfer process we go through when we arrive that it brings other things along with us sometimes. Frankly, I wish it hadn't.

...That's pretty bad news. What's to stop it from pulling, like, an entire city in with one of us?

I couldn't say. I couldn't even say if it actually draws in people, or just creatures. It SEEMS like something worth looking into, but with the labs unwilling to let anybody in to help, well...

Maybe...maybe somebody could sneak in?

...Hmm...

*He seems to be seriously considering this.*

[Just a stare. He hadn't expected to be taken seriously.]

...well, I suppose even if I did sneak in, I would have to know how to hack their computers in order to obtain any useful data. I just don't understand why they need to be so secretive about this stuff.

But that's how it always is, right? I mean, it is during movies and books.

Well if we're going by MEDIA cliches, we should remember how well that tends to end up for everybody else.

...Good point.

[He's not sure what else to say at this point.]

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