"Please - I'm sorry, imsorryimsorryimsorry - please don't - torture me - I can pretend -"

"We're not gonna hurt you, we just need to get you where the doctors can look you over, okay? You sure about the water, you really look like you could use it -"

"Sure, yes, okay -"  It's definitely, definitely drugs, but if he doesn't they are going to tor👏ture👏 him👏and anyway he wants it so, so badly.

Bottle of water.

Chug chug chug chug it's gone except for the portion of it which is all over his shirt and his stupid fucking fake Starbucks apron.  ....The case where it isn't drugs is the case where it's poison, which means he might have just sprinted down the path to torture instead of delaying it for a little longer.  Fuck.

They're taking vitals now. Wow his heart rate is yikes.

He could keep his heart rate kind of normal as a barista but he knew how to be a barista and he does not know how to be a person getting kidnapped by an ambulance under threat of torture and also possibly having already been poisoned.  "Could I please have another?"

Yes, he can have another water.

waterDrugs!!  Yaaaaay drugs.  Or poison!  Holy shit it's so good though.  Is there a third in reach.

...yes but they're getting sort of more concerned about him, when was the last time he had anything to drink?

They knoooooow thiiiiiiiis why are they bothering.  "This morning!"  That's when he fished the last dregs out of his water bottle with a finger.

Well, they'll put in his chart that he's weirdly thirsty for a barista who last drank something this morning, sometimes extreme thirst is a symptom of something. Will he also answer other questions like a remotely normal person while he is in this micromood.

...Actually he has acquired the Sʟᴏsʜʏ status effect and he would like to throw up most of the water he just drank do they have an obvious receptacle for that in the next 2.5 seconds or is it going to be the floor.

They have a barf bag, here it is.

Gwuhhhhhhh.

- Yes of course!  He loves answering questions.

Okay, name, emergency contact, insurance information -?

Julien Doucet.  (It - he - he really doesn't want to give the simulation an excuse to traumatize him on the faces of actual people he knows and cares about.  On the off chance he can ever get out of here.  It's maybe kind of too late on that already; he just gave them his full name, but his mom went back to her maiden name after the divorce and his dad is, y'know, dead, so maybe there's still hope.)  He... doesn't remember... his emergency contact information, and his phone is locked and the fingerprint doesn't work.  His insurance card is back in his wallet in his backpack in his locker at Starbucks but it's OHIP, same as everyone else, here's his - not here's his birthdate, that'll definitely let them find his mom.  He.... doesn't remember his birthday.  It's in December he thinks.  (He's lying they're going to torture him -)

He doesn't remember his birthday. Uh-huh. Okay. Here's the ER, they're handing him off to this here nurse.

Okay.  Hello, nurse, he's not lying about his phone, it won't unlock, see?  No matter how enthusiastically he shoves his finger on the reader.  It just won't work.

She squints at it. "Traceless? You get texts from Traceless, like, the esper?"

.................................The contact is listed as 'Esper Traceless', yep.  Right there on his lockscreen.  Well, whatever, he's barely met the guy, seems like a fine face to get traumatized on.  "Sometimes!"

"Okay, you know what, this is probably not an esper awakening but I've got eight other people who are also probably not esper awakenings who I'd really like to check if I can get anyone to come out here, I can never get Epione to come out of her wing to poke people when it would take five minutes - what's his number -"

"I don't know!"  This one's not a lie, why would he ever memorize anyone's phone number.

"Ugh. Mitzi!"

"What!"

"This guy knows Traceless the esper! Can you get his agent on the horn and see if he'll come do a round of poking?"

"Sara, one in fifty thousand people are espers."

"Most people aren't young adults in the emergency room! He's supposed to be really friendly, it's his backlash."

"His backlash is being friendly?"

"That's what I hear. Look, seriously, I know each one is probably not an esper but I really want someone to check Room Nine and you know how Epione is -"

"You owe me big time if this turns out badly."

"Absolutely positively."