Night 55: Main Hallway 1-East

[lovecrafty]

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"How many players were there in your session?" All indicators -- towers, rings, planets -- had pointed to their session having always been meant as four-player, but that didn't a priori restrict there from being parallel sessions that had now deparallelized into one big mass confusion

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[scintillatingly]

[From here.]

As they continued further down the hall, the amount of patients thinned out, leaving it to only their group and another pair of young patients who seemed to be wandering around. They looked even younger than the three of them, which wasn't as surprising as it should have been. Sora frowned to himself, but figured that the pair of them would ask for help if they needed it.

"It's right at the end of this hall here," he explained, mainly for Roxas' sake. They were about to reach the moment of truth.

[rischiarare]

Like most of Landel's, Roxas found that Kairi's explanation of what happened to her was unsatisfactory and ultimately confusing. There didn't seem to be a point to a lot of the stuff that happened here outside of just trying to mess with people's heads (literally sometimes), but keeping someone in a locked part of the hospital for a couple of days seemed really pointless

[kingdomless]

Kairi smiled to Roxas when he told her he was glad that nothing bad happened to her, and she gave him a bright smile. "Thanks. I am too, I admit. But it's still scary to think that they could have done something, since they had the chance ..."

At the end of the hallway, the princess looked up at the large doors, frowning. They still looked untouched. Now that the nurses were gone, would that mean their chances of getting inside were gone, too? Since she was sure the nurses had the key to the doors. However, if something important was going on behind the doors, then maybe the guards held the keys now? She doubted an entire section of the institute could be off limits, but honestly, she never knew anymore.

Watching as Roxas pulled at the handles, Kairi turned to Sora with a frown. "I have no idea ... normally the doors that can be broken down at least have easily turning door handles. But this time it looks a bit different."

She wished Sora's keyblade would still open the doors, like it used to. But, of course, they just had to take

[scintillatingly]

It didn't take them long to find it, although for a moment Sora was distracted by what Kairi had to say. She was right; it was too easy for the people in charge here to just take her again and maybe do something worse. What if she disappeared once more? Sora wouldn't know if she was out there and brainwashed or if she was in the medical wing again

[mirthfulness]

The question surprised Gamzee at first, but not for long. Of course she'd be aware of SGRUB. It only made sense that anyone here had some connection to it. His logic, or what there was if it (which wasn't much), easily allowed for such things. He'd believe her if she said they'd spoken before and he just didn't recall it.

"Twelve," he answered after he'd had time to recall the exact number. It was a good number, a cheerful number. Six and six, one and two. The fingers on his hands and the horns on his head. ...Or the ones that would usually be on his head. He wasn't even sure where he was going with this. "We were originally all supposed to be in two motherfuckin' groups, but they all got themselves attached on both ends so we were just one."

He formed a circle with the thumb and forefinger on each hand as they kept walking.

> Gamzee: Ascend stairs

[tsunagari]

[from here]

The further to the east of the building they got, the fewer patients there were to run into. There were only a couple here now, and he had no intention of stopping to see if they might require assistance. They had other places to be and no time to check on everyone they passed.

The doctors' halls would be down to their left. While it was always unfortunate to have to pass up an opportunity to check in the rooms for anything useful, that was something else that would have to wait for another time - maybe when they were actually after something specific.

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