Whistler - Jay and Noriko

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After dumping her entire backlog of electric power into keeping a hospital generator running, Nori is feeling the effects of having her system cleaned out for the first time since she manifested. Number one amongst these? Extreme hunger. Jay finds her and helps her find the food and, oddly, she's much less confrontational than one would expect.

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Wandering aimlessly through this place seemed to be a desperate call for something to do, according to one of the volunteers who gave Jay the simple task of going to deliver a box to someone within the recovery building. He passed various people, asking for a specific person and it took him ten minutes to find the guy. Thankfully, he was relieved of his delivery and hesitated in the hallway, unsure of who he should report to.

The Red Cross had co-opted several of the conference rooms in one of the larger hotels and turned them into recovery space for volunteers, including a cafeteria. As soon as the new emergency generator had gotten air lifted in and hooked up the hospital staff had taken one look at Noriko and insisted she go put some food in her. It was a decidedly odd feeling, actually, being hungry and tired and, well, being able to think about being hungry and tired. A sign of just how much energy she'd dumped out of her system powering the hospital for the past couple of hours. Mr. Summers would undoubtedly be interested to know that his theory that her body was powering itself some days almost entirely on electrical charge was right. For now, though, Nori trudged down the hall, comparing the hastily posted signs with the note she'd gotten the hospital staff to write out for her, so she could find the ad hoc cafeteria, since she was a little too tired to actually try to read.

Paying rather more attention to putting one foot in front of the other and not falling over until after she had a meal, Nori didn't even notice she was about to crash into someone.

He lingered where his was for a moment, searching his pocket for the guy's name he was suppose to go talk to. He had written it down somewhere in case he forgot. There were so many names to remember, he wasn't sure how anyone was to remember them all. His wing twitched at an itch he had, but instead of scratching it, Jay only twitched it every few seconds like he was trying to shake something off while he found three pieces of paper. Drawing them out, he stared to unfold one when someone walked into him from behind. "Ugh, wha' the.. hey, watch it," he grunted, leaning down to fetch the papers that landed on the ground before he could grab them.

"Ara... gomen... Sorry." Nori started to kneel down to help but part way down two things hit her. The first, that this was Jay. The second, that if she kept going she was going to fall down. Straightening up, she closed her eyes, swaying slightly. Ok, yeah, she really needed food.

He fetched his things from the ground and from where he was crouching down, he could see she was looking a little off. Standing upright, instinctively, he put out a hand to steady her. "Are ya'll right?" he asked, frowning slightly. "Ya need ta sit down or somethin'?"

"No." She shook her head fiercely, then quickly regretted it. "I lunch, please. Very... suita... onaka suita." Nori lay a hand over her stomach as it let out an audible rumble.

"Huh?" It took him a moment to figure out what she was saying before he caught it and gestured to the direction that they had the food. "That way, Ah think." As he had just passed the room, he was sure it was what she was referring to. If there was anything he knew, it was where food was at all times of the day.

"Thank you. I was very much power. Now... lunch. Please." Turning, she headed straight for the room he'd indicated, her focus absolute in a way which might have been unnerving to anyone who knew her well.

Jay hesitated. Something wasn't right here and he turned to follow her, thinking he could have used something to drink himself. Slowly, he walked behind her, only looking behind himself once to see if anyone was around. Instinct told him to follow.

Entering the makeshift cafeteria, Nori made a beeline straight towards the food, grabbing up a plate and holding it in both hands before her as she bowed to the volunteer who was serving. "Onegai... Please," she said, then bowed again once her plate was full, heading towards a table - in her preoccupation she was only vaguely aware that Jay was following her.

Mindlessly, he grabbed for an OJ, watching her from the corner of his eye and paused to pop the plastic off the lid. She seemed alright enough. He got himself a small plate of food before heading over to her, but in his hesitation, he looked like he was going to say something, but instead, thought better of it and went to head out of the room.

The desperate need to eat and regain the energy she'd expended at the hospital gave Nori tunnel vision - she no more knew that she'd been rude to Jay than she did that she'd been polite to the server. All she really knew was that the food smelled better than anything she'd eaten since leaving Tokyo, and possibly for a good long while before that.