Santi followed quietly --- a little nervous about carrying weapons with her in a<span style="font-style: italic">hospital,</span>though she vaguely wondered if they would even<span style="font-style: italic">work</span>on this side of the Wall --- as Baldy led them down into the building.  He told her that Shari would be safe, which vaguely reassured Santi, though for the life of her she couldn't quite figure out why she should care for the homicidal bitch.  Maybe it was because Santi had, despite everything, been<span style="font-style: italic">enjoying</span>herself until she'd realized what the couple was going to do to her... maybe it was because of Shari's unusual hypnotic effect with her eyes and lips.  Maybe it was even the fact that it was Santi's own life blood that had kept the woman alive in the first place.  Regardless, Santi both hated the woman for trying to feed her to Tim... and couldn't quite get herself to want her dead.<br/><br/>She followed Baldy down the stairwell until he stepped out into the open, dropped the woman onto a gurney, and came back to lead her and Tim away through the stairwell.  He let out a comment and a huff...<br/><br/>"Inhuman decency?" she asked, following him down the stairs, her voice echoing oddly.  "You say that like it's a bad thing!"  She frowned.  "I don't quite get it myself, if that makes you feel any better, Baldie."  She glanced back to make sure Tim was actually following them.  "It might be just because I'm the reason she's still alive.  Or that effect she had on... on me..."<br/><br/>Her green eyes widened a little bit as a thought occurred to her.  "Hey, Tim?  She didn't have a tattoo, too, did she?"  She'd seen her topless but she hadn't seen the woman naked... "Was that... that hypnosis thing just something, uh, genetic?"  She frowned, though she was still following Baldie down the stairs, still clutching the weapons awkwardly.  "I... I mean, if she is, we can't leave her here, can we?  And... she'd have one of those things under her skin..."<br/><br/>She wasn't sure whether it was worry for Shari or worry for herself that was making her speak.  If<span style="font-style: italic">they</span>could still find her...