Night 58: Main Hallway, 1-West

[princeofthemoon]

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Sesshoumaru had not been in the building for nearly long enough to really know it, and his knowledge had not been expanded yesterday as it might otherwise have been, because of the poisons that had been fed into his system - poisons that somehow worked, which had been a disconcerting and unpleasant experience. In the end, though, all

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[princeofthemoon]

He watched her, unreadable, but seemed surprised for a minute at her answer. The flash of emotion passed. He focused for a few moments - she smelled perfectly human, without the sharp, dangerous sunlight-scented arrow that purity tended to have. Of course, there was no guarantee that he could still smell it, but she didn't seem like a priestess. He blinked, and relaxed his focus to allow his senses to slip back to normal, and back to other things, and examined her again, eyes flicking over her. "I am more like you here than I should care to be." Sesshoumaru's voice was bland, almost dry, his face inexpressive, but there was something underneath that - annoyance, maybe, or frustration, maybe in his eyes, or his slight movements, or running deep under the emotions in his voice.

"But you are correct. Regardless of how much this place might drain me, we are different."

He wondered what this girl was, and what she had meant. Regardless of th answer to either, she was intriguing. Even if she was nothing else, perhaps that would suffice, for now. He tilted his head a little, considering.

And, perhaps she could be useful.

"Hn....

I had thought to go upstairs."

[ultimagi]

That settled that, then. The girl nodded, speaking evenly. "I had, too." It made more sense to her to check there first anyway; she had no knowledge of what was on the second floor, and few of the people she'd spoken to had seemed to either; at least, Edgar had some idea, but hadn't gone where she was intending, and Izaya hadn't a clue at all.

At least he had confirmed her hunch as correct. Did that mean what she'd felt before in the cafeteria had been right as well?

No matter. It wasn't what mattered right now. The girl's shoulders relaxed marginally for only a moment, but with a sweep of her flashlight she turned her head to the rest of the hall. "There's a staircase..."

She, of course, had no idea specifically where.

[princeofthemoon]

It did seem rational; for all that Sesshoumaru had spent the day in a drug-induced haze, it had not escaped his notice that the activities he was herded to had taken place on the ground floor. The second floor appeared to be held apart.

His eyes glowed in the ambient light again for a second as he turned. "Look to your left," he said lightly, before walking towards the staircase. He didn't turn to see if she followed.

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