"Mostly I want--" for people to stop dying pointlessly over and over again.

"We should check on Tereza."

"I bet she needs a hug." Honestly, Zoe could use a hug, too, but if she stays still too long she'll just start crying and who knows when she'll stop.

Tereza pokes her head in. "Hello?"

"I woke up."

He was going to go knock on the door but probably sound traveled through it first. Mildly concerning if so but the least of their concerns. He gestures in the manner of offering a child a hug. "How are you doing? Did you sleep okay?"

She receives a hug. "Sort of?"

"Am I going to go back to the orphanage now?"

"Do you want to?"

"Yes. They don't pay much attention so I can go fishing."

He doesn't want to leave her at the orphanage he wants to convince their benefactor that her continued upkeeping is a reasonable business expense and bring her back to New York even tho his line of work is very dangerous and traumatizing.

"We can take you wherever you want."

Upon hearing that she wants to go back to the orphanage, Mordred stops trying to think through the logistics of where to put her and whether he could feasibly still ask Gareth for a favor, which frees his brain up to realize that they almost certainly did not get the medications she was on and she, unlike Lev, is probably not invulnerable to the effects of withdrawal.

"--or at least we probably can," he adds.

Her eyes widen. "But are they going to take me back from the orphanage?"

"I don't want to go to the hospital."

"We don't know," Mordred says, completely honestly. "That's part of why we don't know if we can bring you back to the orphanage. But we're not going to do anything until we know for sure you won't have to go back to the hospital."

"OK.

...I don't feel good."

Fuck.

...Drugs! Dammit! "Are we going to have to -- we are, aren't we. What all was she on, did we write that down somewhere? Because if it was a bunch of things then that might be an issue but if it was just Nectar then that's -- that's a little easier to source."

"We have her patient records, I grabbed them the first time I broke in, it's a bunch of things--"

Zoe kneels down by Tereza. "Can you tell us a bit more what feels bad? Does your tummy hurt? Or your head?"

"Yes. And I feel sick all over."

"Where are they?" They can locate the records together and look over them. "...Which of this stuff actually causes withdrawal? Can you get withdrawal from vitamins?"

"I don't think you can withdraw from vitamins but the rest of these I don't know and from what Montgomery said they're experimental which means it's very plausible that nobody knows."

"Fuck. I don't think I can break back in given the murder and I have no idea if Zoe can break back in given the kidnapping, do you think you can--"

"I mean, maybe. Yesterday I just walked upstairs and passed for a guard so that might just work again."

"They'd definitely recognize me, I think you might be our best bet short of asking, I don't know, Montgomery, or the Emporium cultists, or someone who's actually supposed to be there if one of them can get us what she needs."

"It might depend on whether there's any way to get the stuff semi-legitimately or if I'd have to steal it, I'm a lot better at staying quiet and passing for roles I basically actually have than stealing things from places I'm not supposed to be."

"You can probably say your immediate supervisor told you to get them but didn't say why, chains of command are great that way -- and if that doesn't work then, I don't know, I ask Mariam very nicely or something."

The nurses are suspicious about why a guard needs penicillin.

"I just got sent for them, nobody told me why."