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Reese found it sort of funny that ever since getting sick, he spent a good chunk of his time visiting DCorp. Even though he hated the place. Hated the walls, the halls, the techs. Right now there were only two things he liked about it...one being his friend Saedah and the other being his dragon egg. Which he couldn't wait to see hatch. He was planning on moving down to the pool area when Sea Bright finally came home.

Not that he'd told his father about it yet, but the day would come.

Anyway, Reese was just coming back from a visit to his egg. He was actually trying to find Saedah's place...and ended up getting horribly lost. Sighing some, he was trying to find a tech to ask for directions, but no one seemed to be around.

"One more hallway," he said to himself. "If I don't find her thoon, I'll just go home." The seahorse boy wheeled himself down this second to last hallway...carefully rounding the corner. It took him a while; he still had trouble moving his wheelchair with one hand.

Reese jumped in his spot on the chair, large eyes blinking as he peered around the corner...and saw another kid in a wheelchair. And not that other sea horse girl he'd met when he was smaller. Man, she looked familiar. He definitely felt like he'd met her before, but he couldn't really remember where...

Wheeling himself backwards, approaching the corner from a wider angle so that he could easily get around into the hall as well as face the girl, he took note of her situation. He could see where the problem was: the treads on the wheel weren't letting her turn it out away from the wall. He sort of grinned at himself, remembering when he used to get stuck like that trying to get into his room at home.

But then thinking about home made him sad, so he wasn't going to think about that right now.

"You're thtuck," he said carefully, trying to be helpful. "Roll backwardth, then try turning your wheelth out again." The usual bright smile wasn't there...how strange. He was just sort of there, looking at Kate almost expectantly. And why wouldn't he be? He'd been rolling himself around since he was a toddler.

Reese blinked a bit as she snapped at him...but was quiet as she got herself unstuck. Then, watching her roll down the hall, he continued to think on where he knew her from. Well, not like Saedah expected him to come for a visit anyway. He decided to follow the puppy girl and find out where they'd met before.

"I know you from thomewhere," he said, easily keeping pace with her. He was behind her, of course, seeing as the hallway barely supported one wheelchair, let alone two that were side by side. "I dunno where, though. Do you remember me at all?"

Reese gave a yelp as Kate rolled back so suddenly, definitely following behind her too closely. His tail narrowly missed being smashed between their two chairs, having curled it up as a defensive reflex when he'd seen the possible danger.

After getting jolted about in his seat, Reese would shake his head to clear the double vision before looking at her with...pity? No. Sympathy. He knew what it was like to figure out how to move these stupid chairs.

"They're thupid," he said with a tinge of sadness, running his fingers over the armrest of his chair. "I uthed to run into thingth all the time. But I don't really have a choithe, yanno?"

"Yeah," Reese said distantly. "At leatht...well, I dunno. I've never known what it wath like to run. Maybe it'th better that way. Then I dunno what I've been michthing."

He'd never thought of it that way. At least walking or running wasn't something he'd lost.

He glanced up at Kate again, offering his hand her way in a hand shake. "My name'th Reethe. What'th your name?"

"Nithe to meet you, Kate," he said with a half smile, trying to be polite...as his ignored hand was lowered to his side.

And then, he almost seemed perplexed. Kate...man, that name sounded familiar. And he knew he'd seen kids like her running around before. Actually, he sort of remembered her from The Virus thingie. Maybe that's why she couldn't walk anymore? After all, he couldn't feel things like he used too...

"I dun know a Cashi...but I think I know you. You thure we haven't met before? Caush I feel like I've met you before."