Night 59: Main Hallway, 1-Center

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[from here]Just like last night, Vino turned the bend to find that he was first in the main hallway again. He couldn't decide if he preferred it or not. Patience wasn't his favorite virtue, but he supposed he'd have to wait. The two meeting places he would have to be at were right next to each other, right? So that was fine. If he had to wait a

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No way. Just no way. She didn't care if he could swing a pipe around at the rats, if she left him alone... Leanne was sure she wouldn't be able to find him again. The rats were a lot smaller than a lot of monsters she'd seen, but even then, no one could hold out against them forever. At the rate they just kept coming, they could easily overwhelm someone.

And she'd seen, and heard, of enough Hunters who'd gone in over their heads, and how they'd ended up.

Any temptation she might have had to just take him at his word and run vanished at that thought. She wouldn't, couldn't, be responsible for anything happening to him.

Leanne shook her head, ready to dig her heels in and make him run with her, if she had to. "You can't handle it forever!" She pulled in a lungful of air, squaring her shoulders. "If I run, you have to come with me too! If you don't, you'll...!" She stopped, her blood turning cold, when she heard movement way too close to her. She hesitated only a second, before turning her head.

And promptly shrieked, as one of the rats managed to slip by behind her and lunge straight at her. Almost without thinking, she swung the flashlight at it, the creature falling back again when it made contact.

Lousy scum. Where had it even come from? And how soon would it be back?

"We have to go!" Leanne shouted as she stepped back again, barely waiting to catch her breath. Oh, for the love of... He was even more stubborn than the guys were. At least they knew when to run.

And she really didn't like the idea of trying to forcibly drag him away before he got himself hurt.

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There must have been at least five more of the things coming after them now, maybe even more, along with the injured two from the last group still desperately trying to attack. Zero wasn't counting, only gritting his teeth and starting to wonder if this strategy of fighting them off was even worth it anymore.

Any hopes that it would eventually work out were shattered at the sound of his companion's shriek. No! He flipped around, expecting the worst, but saw that she had been able to save herself from one of the rats. It was only relieving for a half second. He was failing to protect her! If there were so many of the beasts now that they were able to get past him so easily...!

Then that's it. That tears it. He hated running from a fight, but in this situation, it was becoming a necessary course of action. His companion's life was worth more than the need to continue slaughtering these things, and she (annoyingly) was determined not to leave without him. With all of these rats attacking them, it was probably better that he followed her, anyway, to make sure none of the little menaces pursued her. One of them had already almost gotten her...

"Damnit!" Zero brought his foot down as hard as he could on an injured rat near his feet, crushing it beneath his boot, and then he turned to run, forcefully grabbing his companion's arm as he did so. Running toward the first thing he saw - open doors.

Wherever they led, it didn't matter, so long as it wasn't a dead end.

[To here.]