Night 58: Main Hallway, 2-Center
[from here]The first difference Kurogane noted in comparing this hallway with its lower counterpart was how open it appeared. The usual walls of the Sun Room were absent, replaced with new hallways bordering a railing that overlooked the Sun Room - another area that he had made a point of avoiding after one too many incidents. Above that opening
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Coming into the wide open area above the Sun Room, Stefan took another moment to re-orient himself. He saw doors along the walls, and a scurry of movement ahead from something that blended into the shadows. Stefan slid over to the wall, and peered around the corner just in time to make out the figure out of a man walking alone towards the doors at the back. No one else. Good. He was finally alone, then.
Stefan closed his eyes, breathing in deep the stale air of the hospital, searching for... what? He hadn't been able to smell that massive squirrel just two seconds before it had lunged at them; should he really expect to be able to pick up the scent of any creatures wandering the halls here?
Maybe he'd just been... distracted that time. An animal without a scent? Impossible. It wasn't Landel's animals, it was him - he'd been able to smell the blood on Alaric last night, which meant some of those preternatural senses remained to him. So he breathed in, trying again...
Stefan's eyes flew open, his head snapping back to the way the man in black had gone. What...?
His feet were moving before he was even aware of what he was doing. Along the railings, past the doors, to the room at the far northern end.
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