Nightshift 39: Main Hallway 2-East

[ruthless_hunter]

[from here]

Lockdown checked the map again with his flashlight. He was almost where he needed to go. Hopefully Starscream was still holding out. Lockdown knew that he could always find another employer if something happened to Starscream, but that did not mean he would not try to hold onto the one he had now.

He went over Starscream's instructions

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[kanpekinasenshi]

Seiya paused, listening to the story, before turning back and giving Eileen an awkward, hesitant smile. "That sounds difficult. But here, you've already got two people, just in our group--and lots of others. It's true that you can't trust everyone here, but there are a few decent people here and there too... at least, I think so. This place isn't like where you were before."

Where had she been before? And why? It sounded only slightly familiar, like the sort of traps made by would-be queens and Chaos's influence to try and distract soldiers from their duty of protecting the Princess. Those could usually be broken through with logic or time or just the purifying essence of the true Princess herself... Eileen didn't seem like a soldier or a princess, just a frightened woman, for now.

"I can't help everyone here, even if I'd like to. But if you ever need help, or if you're in danger, I'll do my best. All right? You could have called it my job, back home." Home was long gone, and the job had changed, yet here she could almost go back to that. It was simpler, at least. "I can't promise I'd know if you called for my help anytime, but if I do hear you, I'll come running. And anything in my way is in trouble!"

Seiya barely knew Eileen, and the other woman could have been lying or posturing, or the curse she'd described before might have been worse than she'd suggested. As much as Seiya had grown to recognize her own naivete, unfortunately, she'd also come to realize she couldn't quite kill it yet.