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[doc_holi]

[Doctor Holiday appears on the screen in the lounge of her apartment complex (Building 2, if you must know) and she looks rather worried. Every now and then, her eyes will glance off screen.]

I know this sounds ridiculous, especially for the time of year, but have any of you-?

[She turns around quickly, before slowly looking back to the screen.]

I think I'm just really paranoid or... someone's trying to prank me? I don't know, I just-

[She turns again... Then quickly glances back to the screen.]

Am I the only one seeing things?

[Holiday realizes how crazy she seems in that moment...]

Comments

[doc_holi]

It could be a variation of what happened before when something in their labs messed up and affected some of the guests.

Perhaps it's something else, though. This is a new world to most people. Perhaps this is an illness that we just aren't prepared for or something.

[4balls]

.. Something in their labs messed up? [ He's still pretty new, so he didn't know about any of this. ]

What exactly happened back then? Was it a lot like this?

[doc_holi]

Not really. A lot of people felt like they had a fever, others hypothermia. When the opposites touched, the symptoms disappeared.

I don't know how the labs made that error or how they fixed it. They don't really like to talk about that stuff.

[4balls]

They should talk about it more if they actually want us to trust them. Not disclosing important information to us even though it's hurting us only makes them seem more like they're just kidnappers.

[ And he frowns at that thought - his sense of justice doesn't exactly like the people in charge of this place by now. ]

[doc_holi]

My point exactly. I don't entirely trust our hosts, but there's not much that can be done about it.

[4balls]

.. There's got to be something. [ If not because his.. Jojoness won't let him give up that easily. ]

If we all stand up against them together, then we should at least stand a chance.

[doc_holi]

We don't know what sort of defenses they have. We don't even know a lot about this sickness. A man was reported to have threatened them over the disappearance of his friend and was incapacitated due to unknown causes for at least a week.

[She may or may not think that they have somehow weaponized the physical contact illness.]

We need more information before making any sort of rash decisions, strength in numbers or not.

[4balls]

Are you talking about the blonde man? [ He did see that, after all. But he really did figure the answer to it was just strength in numbers - how could their captors handle all of them? And he knows he still has his Stand with him too, so he could use that to fight too.. ]

I thought he was merely taken off guard since he was doing it by himself. If we would all go there together..

[doc_holi]

No. That's far too risky with so little information.

... I wouldn't do it.

[4balls]

[ .. Well, that's already one person to count out. And he's pretty sure it probably won't be effective unless they do it with a big group, if not just all the people here. ]

Are you scared?

[doc_holi]

... Yes. There's just too little information.

[And the unknown is terrifying to someone who usually had all the answers... but how is that any different from home, really?]

[4balls]

No one will blame you for being scared. Most people would be in this situation. [ Josuke is just really stupidly fearless. Seriously to a stupid level where he should be looking out a little more to avoid getting into trouble all the time. ]

If you require any help, feel free to contact me at any time. Although I don't know if there is much I can do in this sort of situation..

[doc_holi]

It's fine. And please, don't worry about it. [And don't do anything rash.]

I'm Doctor Holiday, by the way. It's nice to meet you, under the circumstances.

[4balls]

Feel free to call me Josuke, Josuke Higashikata. [ Mostly saying it in that odd way since it isn't really his name.. but he doesn't know what else to tell her either. ]

.. Although I guess you would have needed my name either way to contact me, Doctor. Thank you for asking.

[ Since he's so oblivious half of the time that he might just have forgotten it. ]

[doc_holi]

Don't worry about that. Thank you, Josuke.