{ to the 'experiment' meme }: "...Hiro? Hiro is that--" she drops everything and runs for him, grabbing him by the sleeves and pulling him into a hug as her heels ground to a halt. "Are you okay?! Where have you been?"
. . c://hiro:
Maybe a familiar face is supposed to be a good thing, but Hiro finds himself terrified — he flinches away, stumbles back before he realizes who it is and calms down. Not enough to return the hug, but enough to tolerate it.
"I — I don’t.." his voice breaking,"You’re — I thought you were —where is everyone else?!”
He isn’t steady on his feet, shaking, pale. And the bruises — along his jawline, his arm.. It’s not clear how old they are, but they must still hurt like hell. There’s a spot on his left arm bandaged, like there’d been an IV there..