So it is done

Aifal

Making her way inside the hospital, Pyrrha, as was custom, approached the clerk's desk who was responsible for answering the questions of visitors. At the same time, more importantly to Pyrrha, also responsible for greeting and sorting those who were trying to get inside the hospital. Past the busy receptionists, the hurrying doctors, and the bored guards who were guarding the expensive equipment and medicines rather than the defenceless patients, the clerk's desk was like an island of calm.

Before Pyrrha could even approach the clerk's desk, the clerk simply nodded before she could get to the desk, having already become acquainted with Pyrrha in the past few days. The guard, standing by the entrance, who was also already familiar with Pyrrha, waved her aside, opening the doors.

Normally, visiting patients, especially those as important as a Mistral Counselor, was strictly regulated, especially considering the fact that Aifal was still in the ICU. But, after her last visit, when she flatly refused to leave the hospital at all, and with the guards who arrived on the scene were unable to move the would-be huntress, the hospital had to find a compromise. Especially when calling the police is simply out of the option.

You need Hunters to deal with other Hunters, after all.

And no one wants to call in the Hunters for a simple altercation, especially something as rife with landmines as 'getting rid of a bereaved visitor'. Never mind the cost of hiring a Hunter in the first place, the optics alone would be devastating. Especially if a fight took place, just imagining the damaging press if anyone would be hurt, caused the hospital's administrators heartburn. And they would have to keep the Hunter in retainer, as even if they did succeed in their mission to evict Pyrrha, it didn't guarantee a lasting result.

After all, no one was stopping Pyrrha from simply returning again after the Hunter brought her home. And even the First Hospital of Mistral didn't have the money to keep Hunters as its guards, let alone hire hunters solely for the purpose of controlling one girl.

Besides, Aifal himself had intervened, even in his grave condition he was still of sound mind and judgement, and so his word overrode the hospital's rules. So, Pyrrha was given round-the-clock access to her room, something she remembered to use every day when she visited Aifal.

However, she did so purely out of excitement for her adoptive father... If not legally, but in spirit. The Counselor in charge of Mistral's Diplomatic and Foreign Policy was the father to the entire First Mistral Children's Home, and it was only due to conflicting schedules that Pyrrha was the only visitor to the hospital today.

So, entering the clean room, or well the ad hoc one created by the hospital once it became clear that Aifal would be getting visitors regardless of their rules. Once inside the designated cubbyhole, Pyrrha put on the overshoes, gathering her normally loose hair into a ponytail and threw on a white clean overcoat, trying her best to obey the hospital's rules.

Then, rising from the small padded ottoman, Pyrrha headed forwards, passing the several branching corridors leading to one ward or another, and headed for the stairs, bypassing the lift next to them. After all, she wasn't in a hurry to get anywhere at the moment, so using something that the other patients could use seemed kind of wrong and rude to Pyrrha...

While that ship has sailed, what with her refusing to leave the hospital, almost needing police intervention, but if she hadn't insisted then, she wouldn't have been able to see Aifal at all! So the fact that Pyrrha was the kind of person to inconvenience people had been put on the back burner, making way for the Huntress, more than capable of standing her ground.

So after passing the unused lift and reaching the stairs, Pyrrha began to climb, using the light exercise to let her thoughts spin further in her head of their own accord.