Night 55: M41-M50 Hallway

[corvus_veritas]

.....Ow. Okay, uh. Was all that static really necessary? If that guy was hoping to give everyone a migraine, he was certainly on the right track. He excelled at being annoying as much as he did delivering creepy, cryptic messages. Alright. Good for you, whoever you were.

But no matter. The strange speech over the intercom was the least of the

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M44

[full_score]

Claude could scarcely pay attention to the eerie silence that preceded that strange announcement. Not when his head was buzzing from the last few moments of dinner. They'd taken Mason again. Those bastards actually took Mason a second time. His roommate hadn't been lying when he'd said that he thought this would happen, but it still left Claude reeling.

While it felt wrong to go marching off outside while Mason was upstairs getting tortured, Claude remembered the last time he'd tried helping. That was right -- Mason had at least one friend who looked out for him, and chances were he'd been smart enough to make preparations in case he got nabbed for "sleep studies" again. Still, to feel so helpless like this...

"Dammit," he hissed as he finished making the last of his preparations. Just how many more people were going to suffer before they found a way out of here? If he couldn't even save himself from the doctors, just how did he think he was going to save everyone else?

No, now wasn't the time to ask himself those kinds of questions. He had to keep pressing ahead. Guy was probably already waiting for him.

After slipping into his Federation jacket, Claude grabbed his sword and gun and slipped outside.

((To here.))