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[At any time when they are not in the hot seat, PARTICIPATING MEMBERS may slip away to their dressing room. It's small and comfortable, with seats for everyone, and water. Otherwise, it's bare.]

[They will not be permitted to stay in the room when they are up on the hot seat.]

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Only one's for you.

Just stay in your seat and don't move.

[He reaches out and gently, but firmly grabs her right arm and goes to pull the sleeve up.]

[ she yanks her arm, automatically, but it's not very hard. more a recoil than a legitimate attempt to get away. she learned her lesson last time. ]

That's not how many I have, either.

I know.

[He rolls up her sleeve....and initially recoils when he sees something very different from what he expects.]

[ another later, then? ] Hurry up and do it.

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Yeah.

[He'd rub it with a cotton swab and shit but he has no idea where the hell he'd do it, so he just tries his best to figure out where the vein is and...

...in it goes.

He pushes the plunger in. Once that's done, he takes it out and puts a band-aid over it, for whatever that'll do.]

...it'll take a few minutes to kick in.

[ she stays very, very still, but Viva's still shaking regardless. looking at him hard. he looks like he gives a shit. has for most of the game. ]

You better get the hell out of here.

You're gonna have trouble understanding verbal speech once it kicks in. [Louder, so her teammates can hear too:] You'll need people to write things down for you until it wears off. Get a notebook or something.

Just rely on your team. They'll get you through it.

[Only after he's said all that and is done with Mint too, he turns to leave.]

I've done the notebook thing before, so that won't be a problem.

In that case... [ Turning to Viva. ] Until we get back to the dorm, we'll rely more on getting things across with gestures and motions. So we'll stick close.

[ she's pulling down her sleeve, kinda fast, the shaking worse now than before. it's the- fucking adrenaline, and the relief. she still feels sick. should she? ]

What does he mean, trouble understanding speech?

... it's the same concept as being unable to recognize faces well. It's going to affect how you register words we say to you. It might sound jumbled, or confusing.

Try to keep that in mind if things start to sound strange. But I'll try to let you know what I'm saying in other ways. So focus on my faces and our movements.

Okay. Faces... got it.

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