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Doctor Zero can be found with her birds, stroking them sadly, talking to them to keep herself on the level. Strange what war does, the insane behaviors demanded of you to stay on the narrow roof of sanity.

"I...t-tried to help her. But I c-can't save anyone. Not her or Eno."

Tears well up and overflow but she manages to fight back the kind of obvious snotty, sniffling, sobbing, full of hiccoughs, if only because she dares not open her mouth to speak. Later she can be found looking at Shouko's last medical chart.

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[This poem fragment appears in several places around the Chalice and once anonymously on the network. If you're very observant/persistent you might be able to catch her putting them out.]

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
Every poem an epitaph. And any action
Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea's throat
Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we start.
We die with the dying:
See, they depart, and we go with them.

And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.
The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree
Are of equal duration.