Law himself is standing slightly behind Gai even as he's beside him, eyes equally cool. The man isn't showing any emotion whatsoever - it's far too serious for that - and when he steps forward to speak, there's a certain different quality to his voice, even if it's the same steady tones.
"The Iron Eye has a massive amount of wounded among them, most with injuries that are explainable and expected for a group of mercenaries. However there is a group of their members that are segregated from the rest and their ailments weren't so immediately explainable."
Ino and Elizabeth would know exactly what he was speaking of - they had been in the same tents and it had come up in conversation with both of them. "These patients are suffering from radiation poisoning - in some cases quite severe - and Shift Afflictions. This is an area that has a high frequency of Natural Shifts and other dangers, so at first it looked like their cases weren't related until I had gotten a hold of their charting. The cause of their injuries were blacked out. I couldn't find a spec of history on any of them, suggesting, along with their grouping, that they had been laid up by the same thing."
He pauses here to allow the group to digest what he's said. It's a lot already. But there's more and once he thinks the group has absorbed that, he continues. "Further investigation revealed that the patients within that ward are predominantly of two types - guards and scientists. Treatment for a good number isn't being carried by the Eye's own medical staff, but Bilirubin himself."
His eyes sweep. "Given that, I had wondered if it was experimentation or the development of something, most likely a weapon given the players here, that was happening in secret. The patients weren't talking - some tried to play it off as the desert - and watching them revealed that they weren't only unwilling to speak with us but they were being bitter and resentful towards their own people as well."
He turns to the man with him, "So I brought this to Gai to see if he knew anything that would explain this. As it turns out..."
IC Briefing and Discussion
"The Iron Eye has a massive amount of wounded among them, most with injuries that are explainable and expected for a group of mercenaries. However there is a group of their members that are segregated from the rest and their ailments weren't so immediately explainable."
Ino and Elizabeth would know exactly what he was speaking of - they had been in the same tents and it had come up in conversation with both of them. "These patients are suffering from radiation poisoning - in some cases quite severe - and Shift Afflictions. This is an area that has a high frequency of Natural Shifts and other dangers, so at first it looked like their cases weren't related until I had gotten a hold of their charting. The cause of their injuries were blacked out. I couldn't find a spec of history on any of them, suggesting, along with their grouping, that they had been laid up by the same thing."
He pauses here to allow the group to digest what he's said. It's a lot already. But there's more and once he thinks the group has absorbed that, he continues. "Further investigation revealed that the patients within that ward are predominantly of two types - guards and scientists. Treatment for a good number isn't being carried by the Eye's own medical staff, but Bilirubin himself."
His eyes sweep. "Given that, I had wondered if it was experimentation or the development of something, most likely a weapon given the players here, that was happening in secret. The patients weren't talking - some tried to play it off as the desert - and watching them revealed that they weren't only unwilling to speak with us but they were being bitter and resentful towards their own people as well."
He turns to the man with him, "So I brought this to Gai to see if he knew anything that would explain this. As it turns out..."
Law steps back. Gai is center stage once more.