Night 56: The Coliseum
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Sasuke woke with a start and thought -- for one horrible, infuriating moment -- that the night had ended again without conclusion or satisfaction. He had nearly opened his mouth to swear at the doubtless-waiting soldier when his senses caught up to his anger and the chilly, musty air pressed into awareness.
This was not his room. He was still underground.
But the air in here was different again from the last room they'd been in: this was not a cramped, closed space like the hallway past the first doors. There was a scent and a lightness to it that spoke of space even underground, but without the cleanliness that had kept the ballroom from being quite the cave that it technically was. It was nowhere that Sasuke could recall ever having sensed.
A moment later, he realised that he couldn't hear the voices of the others that had been with him when the doors had opened -- indeed, there seemed to be nobody in immediate proximity to him. Danger, the thought rushed back, and he tensed until the Sharingan flickered a flare of chakra into his line of sight, directly across from him. Someone was there, and he knew this chakra signature:
"Sai?"
Sasuke woke with a start and thought -- for one horrible, infuriating moment -- that the night had ended again without conclusion or satisfaction. He had nearly opened his mouth to swear at the doubtless-waiting soldier when his senses caught up to his anger and the chilly, musty air pressed into awareness.
This was not his room. He was still underground.
But the air in here was different again from the last room they'd been in: this was not a cramped, closed space like the hallway past the first doors. There was a scent and a lightness to it that spoke of space even underground, but without the cleanliness that had kept the ballroom from being quite the cave that it technically was. It was nowhere that Sasuke could recall ever having sensed.
A moment later, he realised that he couldn't hear the voices of the others that had been with him when the doors had opened -- indeed, there seemed to be nobody in immediate proximity to him. Danger, the thought rushed back, and he tensed until the Sharingan flickered a flare of chakra into his line of sight, directly across from him. Someone was there, and he knew this chakra signature:
"Sai?"