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here]Even the main hall was deserted. S.T. switched on his flashlight and took a look around. Yeah, it was empty. No roadkill, no other patients. If he ever made it home, he was never bitching at any of the girls who didn't want to do night ops alone again. It was different when you knew there were things out there in the darkness.
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Loki stepped out into the much larger hallway. He took a moment to examine the immediate area, then stepped back and to the side. He put his back against the wall a comfortable distance from where the hallways joined. This seemed the best place to wait. And hopefully this was the correct place, since that had sounded to him what Riku was referring to.
After a moment of consideration, he flipped off his flashlight. While it would be useful in indicating his location to Riku, it might also attract unwanted attention. He could turn it on easily enough when he heard someone approach.
Loki leaned back comfortably, and listened.
[Waiting for Riku!]
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Well, really, almost anyone in this place was likely to be far younger than Loki. A few years in either direction likely didn't make that much of a difference for short-lived mortals. And he also had to admit that at this point even the youngest child likely had a better idea of what was going on than Loki did himself, and thus there was most definitely use to be had.
He stepped away from the wall and even gave the young man a proper bow, if not a very deep one. "I am he." Riku's pronunciation was close enough and not worth correcting. "You must be Riku, then." He smiled. "I am at your disposal for the night."
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Loki cocked his head slightly as Riku seemed to be asking him where they ought to go. It seemed like a strange thing, considering it was his first night in this place and all he'd really gotten was warning after warning about how fantastically dangerous it was. He examined the young man's face, a bit of amusement blooming in his chest. This was most definitely a test.
Everything always was.
"Everyone I've spoken with today seemed to indicate that boring is a good thing, but I've personally never been a fan." He grinned. "But really, I'm here to be useless and over-intellectual dead weight wherever you'd like to go, since you're the one that actually knows the lay of the land." He chuckled. "I've been told I ought to find some sort of weapon, which I suppose will be very comforting to ( ... )
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Really, it was more that, after what he'd seen and done in his life, up to and including falling through a hole in time and space that lead to somewhere very dark indeed, there wasn't much left that really could scare him ( ... )
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As casual as the statement could have been-along with boasting-it unsettled Riku. The words brought him back to his own the day he left the Islands, Darkness swelling quickly around him, threatening to envelop everything that he had known up to that point. (And he didn't care because, just like Lingormr, he didn't fear. He wasn't afraid.) It was what he told Sora time and time again: I'm not afraid, I control the Darkness, I'm in control. It was always said the same way: sincerely, certainly, and not in any way intended as a matter of reassurance. He doubted Lingormr's words were any different. That was what made him uneasy. People didn't say those things lightly ( ... )
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