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Pen swore lightly and made her way over to Laurel. "And why are you running away from the medical staff rather than to them?" Pen crouched down and looked at Laurel's eyes, "Come on, lets get you to a medic."

((Sideways Stories From Wayside School, by Louis Sacher, same guy that wrote Holes. The school was supposed to be built one story and 30 classrooms long. However, it was accidentally built with 30 stories, with one room on each story. (The builder said he was very sorry.)

... Yesssss. wink ))
A.C. got fixed. The writer's imagination has fled how in describing exactly how, because there is pizza in the room.

Don't ask how pizza got in the same room as a punk kid and a bunch of medical robots. It just did.

Back in the room with the refugees, a beady-eyed woman waited 5 minutes to make sure A.C. wasn't going to pop back in, then started complaining loudly that the dead were being housed with them and that these conditions were completely unsanitary, pointing to the body of the Rogue as a prime example.

With a distressed look, Sol shook her head. "N-no! Its just that this one girl told me that there were some ghosts in that room down the hall and then we ran and..and..." Sol broke down crying, much to her own horror. Unbidden, during the middle of her sentince, her memories of the encounter with the Kore sprang up and filled her with self loathing. What she didnt know was that an entire year of her life was missing, a time when she was programmed to be an assassin and funtioning member of the Kore society.

Tu stared at Sol, and then glanced around with a horrified look on her face. "Why are you crying? Why is she crying? How do I work with this?" Tu, patted Sol's back awkwardly, "It's all right? I think..."

"N-no. Its not that...Look." Her hands seemed to lose focus, and then turned into scythe blades. "See! Its not OK! That creepy Captain guy tried to kill me because of the freakin Kore! The Kore gave me this terrible, beautiful gift...This and one other thing." She blinked and teleported behind Tu. "This....This is their true genius. The ability to blink and be wherever you choose to be...within reason. The Kore....Are they really enemies? They have much to offer that could save this civilization from eventual ruin. Ruin..ruin that is inherent in all humankind." she said in a soft voice as she circled Tu, almost as if she was talking to herself. Her hands continued to change into implements of destruction as she walked, all the while her face had the look of someone who was daydreaming.

Tu's hand instinctualy moved towards her gun, although she was a horrible aim and knew it. "Kid, keep your weapons in your hands, and yourself in one place, or someone more jumpy than me might get spooked and start up a fight." Tu took a deep breath. "The Kore would lead us to destruction faster than you could ever imagine. They are that inherent evil in humanity."

"Y'know somethin'? Humanity's not all its cracked up to be..." She gazed past her hands with a glassed over expression. A strange language, harsh and guttural, rolled off her tounge as if she was born speaking it. Each member of the Kore's elite team of assassins was implanted with a neural chip. The chip was activated by a phrase in the code language they invented. Then, if the implantee so chose, the chip could do many functions besides just a comm device. It could be a beacon, a bomb, or a recording device. The ultimate espionage technology is the person itself, untraceable and undetectable. As of now, Sol was just giving a status report. However, she did falsify some details, mainly where she was and what she was doing. The Kore knew this, but they also knew that she had an excelent reason to do so. No names were mentioned, but they had the suspicion that the Hunters were nearby.