One moment Beatrix had been lounging calmly on her bed. At the sound of the intercom, the usual prattling Martin Landel did coming across, the Bride stretched and sat up. The moment she heard the door unlock, well before it normally did, she was up and out the door, not a word to her roommate.
Keeping along a wall, she sprinted down the empty hallway, flashlight still dark in her hand. Two nights... two nights in a row she'd made this same trek and two nights in a row she hadn't achieved her goal. This night would be different.
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