If only I could run away from it all

[lovesickkiller]

Who: Misa and Micah
What: Yet another Numbered from that same world has shown up in their midst. Now is as good a time as any to meet him
Where: Hospital
When: January 8th


She will be released from the hospital soon.

Misa has been here so long that she wonders if she will remember how to function out in the real world, where bland meals aren't brought on trays three times a day. Vague plans to get as far away from here as possible have formed in her head, but nothing more than that yet. Being discharged certainly does not mean that her legs are fully healed, and she prefers that the ugly things remain under the covers where they belong.
 
But she will have to walk if she is going to run away from all her problems.

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[enflammen]

He can sort of understand that - from all accounts, Mello, Near, and L had not been pleasant people. Micah knows he holds within himself a number of conflicting feelings about the sort of man Mello was and the choices he made with his life. Every new Echo seems to bring some even more horrible revelation about his Other.

But on the other hand, Micah is deeply curious about him. He only has a handful of the other man's memories, and he hungers for a more complete picture.

Micah steps into the room and takes the paper from Misa, scrutinizing the sketch. It's definitely him as a boy - well, Mello as a boy, they looked the same. The significance, though ... that eludes him, as no Echo washes over him to bring a clue as to the portrait's significance.

"Your work? If so, you've got a good eye," he says, handing the page back to her. "That looks just like me when I was a kid."

[lovesickkiller]

"I don't know," Misa admits, frowning at the picture. She has always had a fair knack for drawing from her fashion days, but the likeness in the face is too spot-on compared to her more stylized sketches. Of course, her Other could have been an artistic master for all she knows.

"I don't know what it means, either. I guess they knew each other as kids?"

It's quite a coincidence, if someone her Other grew up with wound up working against her as a detective. But stranger things certainly happened in that world.

[enflammen]

"Maybe." He nods, but he thinks it's doubtful that the scenario she proposes is correct. Mello didn't have the same sort of recognition when he saw her as he did for - say, Near, who he knew from childhood.

Still ... it can't be ruled completely out. "Does the name Wammy's House mean anything to you?"

[lovesickkiller]

Misa doesn't answer right away, pausing a moment and looking uncomfortable before she nods. "Lazarus told me about it."

Clearly there is a stronger connection between those two's lives than her own and his, considering how often those words are being spoken. But that only makes the drawing all the more confusing.

"An orphanage for geniuses, right?"

Not somewhere Misa's Other would have been. She wasn't a genius, and she hadn't been orphaned until later in life. Misa isn't exactly sorry to be left out of the little boy's club; from what Lazarus had told her, it sounded like a highly questionable place.