Nightshift 60: Main Hallway, 2-Center
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The main balcony was an extremely hard place to defend -- big glass windows, looking out onto stars that twinkled through the atmosphere, the often-occupied room below, and the doors that were locked to patients -- or locked to most patients, as the case might be -- but not to the staff that lurked behind them.
"You keep an eye on the way we came," she said, still whispering to Goku. "I'm going to check our borders. She set off pacing around the perimeter of the balcony. It would draw an attack, if one was coming, but they needed to do that now, rather than during a theoretical hurried retreat.
The main balcony was an extremely hard place to defend -- big glass windows, looking out onto stars that twinkled through the atmosphere, the often-occupied room below, and the doors that were locked to patients -- or locked to most patients, as the case might be -- but not to the staff that lurked behind them.
"You keep an eye on the way we came," she said, still whispering to Goku. "I'm going to check our borders. She set off pacing around the perimeter of the balcony. It would draw an attack, if one was coming, but they needed to do that now, rather than during a theoretical hurried retreat.