Nightshift 40: East Wing, Hall A (2nd Floor)

[oftemptation]

[from here]Endrance rounded the corner slowly, looking ahead to see if anything was there. He was reminded all too easily of what had happened here the night before - the false Mia attacking, trying to talk her out of it...everything

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[falseblack]

"Understood," Nigredo muttered unconsciously, before tightening his lips at the habit. Being on guard did not equate being on a mission; suddenly treating this venture as such felt weird. Maybe it was warranted--the sound coming from one end of the hallway certainly didn't help--but wasn't he here for curiosity's sake?

Best not to think about it too much. He quietly crept ahead of the group, in hopes of finding the aforementioned storage rooms. The first two the boy ran across were of no consequence: one remotely resembled a reception area while the other contained several large machinery. The next three merely proved frustrating. A quick turn of the knobs revealed all of them were locked and sealed tight.

The traffic up ahead forced Nigredo to stop and use his eyes to investigate the next areas. One, where he was positive the noise was coming from, he ignored in favor of another, significantly quieter entrance. Its doorknob was disjointed in a way that indicated it had recently been broken into. He peeked inside, finding moving elements (People?) and several stacks of boxes. If boxes were not an obvious indication of a storage room...

Facing the others, he motioned for them to draw closer.

[oftemptation]

Endrance nodded, taking a few steps forward, then stopping. It wasn't pain that stopped him, or even the loud noises a few rooms ahead of them. It was something he couldn't describe - a faint sense that someone else was here, in the way that one Epitaph resonated in the presence of another. It wasn't reacting to either Gaignun or Mitsuru; if it had, it would have done so the moment he had approached them.

Who is it? I can't tell...the feeling is too weak, or I'm too far away. But it seems so familiar...almost like... Endrance's heart skipped a beat. It couldn't be that his Avatar was reacting to Haseo's, could it? Either way, the feeling was so faint, and he couldn't leave now. Even if he did...in his weakened state, it was better to stay with the group until he knew more. There was still that part of him that wanted to find Haseo, but he silenced it for the moment.

[to here.]