Scenelet [Alison] - Something old, something new...

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Upon returning to her room the previous night, Alison made something of a discovery. Upon waking up this morning, she thinks back on it.



Alison stood in the room, looking it over carefully while she turned slowly on herself, taking in every detail. She'd tried to do that when she'd first arrived in it the previous night, but by then she'd been so tired that sleep had taken over nearly at once, barely giving her time to curl up on the bed before she drifted away for a night of dreams oft tinged in red.

Haroun had walked up with her as she went to her room after being finally released from the medlab the previous night, not expecting anything to be different for a while - it was Cain's old room, the walls lined with Vibranium, sound flat and dead as always in there. Walking inside the room had revealed it to be very empty, except for one small thing. In the middle of the floor there had been a small card propped up, along with a key, the note inside written in Cain's neat, blocky handwriting.

She'd stared at the note for ages before Miles had snuck in as well to join them, hugging her quietly until she managed to sort herself out and rise to her feet again. Without a word he'd taken her hand and led her down the hallway to another room, waiting until they reached the new room to start telling her in a low voice about how he and Haroun had helped Cain move her things there, as a surprise for the improvement in her health. It had been bedtime for the small boy after that, but Haroun had stayed a bit, even though she'd fallen asleep nearly right away.

She noticed the space on the far wall, which was marked out lightly, where Cain had been planning to install some modified sound baffles since she'd still needed those at the time. Reaching out, Alison picked up the note she'd dropped on her night table and read it over again, lips moving to the words silently.

"You're the singer. You sing. I'm the architect - I architect! Next time leave the ordering of things for rooms to me. But in the meantime, something had to be done with that stuff you had delivered, so I set you up in one of the suites down the hallway. I'll stop by later to finish tweaking the white noise generators and to make sure you got moved in okay. Enjoy! Cain."