NIGHT 54: MAIN HALLWAY, 1-EAST

[corvus_veritas]

[ From here.]

And here, Byrne paused along the left-hand wall, made sure Rei was still beside him, and then took careful note of his surroundings.

The silence was the most painfully obvious detail here. And another obvious detail was that, unlike every other one he had visited, this hallway was practically deserted. Hadn't anyone else come this way

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[swornandbroken]

[from here]

Mello glanced back at Matt as he walked, to see if he was still upright. Smoking could only be a good sign. "We'll get out," he said, quietly, but he was beginning to fear he was making a promise he couldn't keep. No. They had to get out. No other option was acceptable.

"Other than the monsters," he told Javert, "there's what I call the boomerang effect. You wake up back in your bed every morning. I don't know how far it extends." He scowled at having to admit this, but if they were following him, they deserved to know. "Presumably, at least to the town. What's past that is anyone's guess. The Head Arsehole-- Landel," he clarified, since Javert wouldn't have been familiar with the unaffectionate nickname now, "said something about the altverse. That implies none of us are where we started out."

[for_a_song]

"I'm not too keen on staying either. I really doubt the new management is going to be any better than the old one was," he replied, a hint of bitterness and stress he'd been feeling all day leaking into his voice. He wanted out. He'd had enough of being imprisoned, enough of taking hits to his hard won sanity, and enough of everyone being used as someone's glorified science experiment. He'd do his best to help get this group out, at least, and hope that they could somehow beat whatever it was that kept dragging them back here every morning.

He didn't know how Mello knew where they should and shouldn't be heading, but he wasn't going to argue. Mason was injured, Javert was confused, and it was going to be hard enough getting everyone where they needed to go without running into any more fight. Sixth sense, gut instinct, it didn't matter as long as they could minimize the fighting.

[gamingsostfu]

He was injured, but he wasn't dead, and Matt was determined that tonight was the night they needed to get out or

[unmocked_lawr]

Every morning. So that was the reason he was still here. Frustrating, and altogether too straightforward an explanation for Javert's liking, but it didn't seem as if he had much choice but to believe Mello for the time being. The young man didn't seem as if he had much reason to lie, though Javert hadn't precisely had time to tell for sure.

It still didn't explain why Mello was currently trying to escape, unless the aforementioned coup d'etat had shaken up the infrastructure of this place so badly that whatever power was keeping them here was no longer in effect. Presumably that was Mello's theory. If they could reach civilization tonight, then they might have a chance at remaining there in the morning.

"What's the new management like?" This directed abruptly to Gren; if anything, he might as well spread the questions out amongst the group. Better chances of catching a contradiction, if it turned out they weren't to be trusted after all.

[swornandbroken]

Mello knew what Javert was doing, and he would've done the same: make sure they weren't feeding him lies, or that they at least had their story straight, which would have involved a level of pre-planning that was obviously impossible. So he left the question directed at Gren alone, certain the answer Javert got would prove they could be trusted far enough to continue on with.

Matt's question was more difficult, anyway, and Mello only met his eyes for a moment before looking away, turning down into the hallway that led to the door to outside.

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