Nightshift 35: F21-F30 Hallway
Okay, so the day more or less completely sucked. The only consolation Toph had was in regards to the conversation with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and the upcoming meeting with Renamon for her file and possessions. That is, if she could even find the woman. Renamon never got a chance to tell her the location of her room; the staff had intervened too
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A hunter stalked it's prey quietly using the terrain to its advantage. Unfortunately, the hallway didn't have any cover or anything about it to make her approach to Yukari's room undetected or anything. Her only advantage was the ability to blend in with the other people around. Who would really suspect a wolf amongst the sheep when the wolves and sheep normally coexisted in this place?
Falis stopped near the end of the hallway where F29 was and put her back to the wall next to the door. Her minor distraction of Hokuto would have given the occupants inside time to leave for the night which made things easier for the bounty hunter. She was there to take a look at Yukari and her mark's personal effects that they'd chosen to leave behind in the room. Maybe she'd luck out and find a journal that gave her the identity of her mark.
She listened closely for any sounds coming from the room; it'd suck if she sneaked in only to find one of the two girls sitting on on bed reading or something. That would be embarrassing, so she put together quickly a story about hunting vampires and checking the individual rooms just in case.
Hearing nothing, Falis quietly grasped the door handle and started to turn it.
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Naminé had just barely missed seeing Alita exit from a nearby room, doing a double-take as she saw the familiar figure stalk down the hallway to a room that was further down.
"Alita!" Naminé called out as soon she was close enough, jogging up to her friend and stopping short as soon as she spotted Alita's hand on the doorknob. Had she interrupted something?
"Oh, I'm sorry, is this a bad time?"
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"Uh... kinda," Falis replied, as her eyes moved from the door to Namine.
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"Um, are you meeting someone? I was just wondering if you were free for the night, but I suppose..." Perhaps she really was just meeting someone, but since Naminé was intending to ask for an escort, she decided to just get that out of the way.
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"...no. I don't have any plans with anyone," she answered, her responses being much more brief than normal. Her eyes darted to the door, then back to Namine and she eased the doorknob back and let go of it.
"I was... working."
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"... I can wait. I mean, I just wanted to know if you wanted to go to the Arts and Crafts room with me tonight," She explained, casting a suspicious glance at the door.
It was none of her business, but Naminé would be lying if she said she wasn't curious.
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"Do you mind if I..." Damnit. "I've got to... look around in here for... stuff."
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And she couldn't help but look slightly alarmed when Alita mentioned that she had to take a "look" in another's patient's room, seemingly without permission.
"Does this person... know you're going to do that?" Naminé didn't want to be suspicious of her friend without proof, but she couldn't quite agree with this either. If only Alita wasn't acting so... sneaky!
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Falis did not answer as she turned back toward the door, listening intently tow hat might be on the other side of the door. Her non-answer was as good as one anyways and she pursed her lips and glanced around the hall to see who else might be watching.
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"Surely you can just ask them? Does this have to be done behind their back?" Naminé had heard of patients being attacked in their own rooms, and while Alita didn't seem like she was doing that, she still was uncomfortable with the idea of a stranger going through her room.
Alita wasn't trying to... steal anything, was she? It didn't seem like something she would do.
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"No. I can't." Falis replied quietly. "My activities are not to be detected by them."
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In the end though, Naminé really couldn't say anything. She had invaded someone else's privacy in the worst way and was already contemplating doing it again (with permission, but still), so she really would be a hypocrite to try and stop Alita.
"I'm sure you have your reasons. I'll be waiting out here until you're done, if you'd still like to come with me," Naminé did sound very disappointed, but she tried not to let it sound too obvious. She didn't mean to start guilt-tripping Alita out of doing this, but that seemed to be her ulterior motive as she turned away from the princess to act as a sort of "lookout".
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"..."
Damnit.
The princess cast the door a look before coming up to stand next to Namine. She gazed down the hallway, one hand on the sword at her waist, for a long moment of silence. She then looked down at Namine.
"Well, go on. Don't you want to get there before some beasties get in the way?"
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A blush spread across Naminé's cheeks as she noticed Alita standing over her, realizing that she had actually managed to convince Alita not to rifle through the room for now. She was torn between feeling happy that she potentially saved Alita from trouble and guilty over making her feel bad for doing her job.
But she wasn't going to waste Alita's time, if the princess had made her decision, and Naminé nodded and started to walk towards the end of the hall.
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