Night 54: M-A Block Hallway

[scintillatingly]

[From here.]Judging from that announcement, the man who had spoken was not the general himself. Whoever that was had spoken about the general as if it was another person, so who did that make him? Was he just one of the officers? And if so, what made him so important that he got to make the announcements? These were the thoughts running through

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[winged_moon]

[from here]

Yue hadn't stopped to pick up his flashlight or any of the other items he usually brought along at night; the flashlight was dead anyway, hadn't that been the point of their last expedition that hadn't gone anywhere? How long ago had that been? Was he about to vanish, "released" as so many patients had been during the time he'd spent here?

No, he simply couldn't allow that to happen. Not while Sakura needed him... wherever she was right now.

Once he reached the larger hallway, though, he did pause for a moment, wings half-spreading in agitation. He needed to find Touya first. Maybe he knew what was going on, how long he'd been gone, and where Sakura was. There first, then.

[guardiancomplex]

( From here.)

Fortunately, Touya didn't have to go far to find Yue--the wings half-spread in the middle of the hallway was enough of a marker. The guardian was no doubt ruffled that Touya had spent the day in his room. Or, more accurately, in a room that was newly his. Touya approached Yue quickly, flashlight lowered.

"Yue," he called. "They moved me."

[winged_moon]

And before Yue could get very far with that resolve there was Touya... behind him, rather than ahead. Moved him? How much had changed, during that unknown space of time he'd slept?

The guardian turned a little more sharply than he normally would have, wings still lifted and feathers ruffled, not visibly soothed at all by the other's presence. "Touya?" He glanced from the young man back toward the hall from which he'd come, blinked once, then shook his head and started to turn toward the exit once more. "Good. We have to go. Now."

[guardiancomplex]

There was an urgency to the tone of Yue's voice that had Touya jogging to close the rest of the distance between them. He hadn't heard that in Yue's voice in a long time--probably since the arena. So what did it mean? What did it always mean: it meant they were in serious trouble.

"What's going on? What happened?" he asked, stepping around Yue's wings so he could see the guardian's face. "I woke up every time the intercom went off, so I know something's going on."

[winged_moon]

"You woke up?" As he realized Touya was forced to move around his wings Yue frowned slightly and drew them back in again, trying to make it seem as though he meant to do that and not as though he'd forgotten just how openly agitated he'd looked. If Touya had woken up "every time" the intercom sounded then he would have been aware of time passing, but at the same time... had he slept through an entire day as well? Or more than that? "The last thing I remember it was night. We were going to find batteries."

He hesitated a moment longer, then looked away as though trying to listen to something faint in the distance; without his conscious realization his wings shifted and re-settled uneasily. "Something is going on. And Sakura... she isn't in her room." Could he be absolutely certain of that, though? With all the other interference to his abilities....

[guardiancomplex]

"Sakura isn't in her room?" Touya was more disturbed by that than the fact that both he and Yue had slept through an entire day. What if she had been taken during a time where they could have prevented it? What if she was scared and hurt or being hurt?

"Come on--" Touya broke into a run. "You can find her, I know you can! Come on, let's go!"

( To here.)