Nightshift 43: Main Hallway 2-Center
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As they approached the top of the stairs, Alkaid took the natural exit, and turned to face the right. She'd already sorta been down what was there in the left corridor, but she wasn't sure where to go from here.
"...Hey, Badou? Speaking of sane... don't pay any attention to me if I talk about items and item screens and equipment. It' ( Read more... )
As they approached the top of the stairs, Alkaid took the natural exit, and turned to face the right. She'd already sorta been down what was there in the left corridor, but she wasn't sure where to go from here.
"...Hey, Badou? Speaking of sane... don't pay any attention to me if I talk about items and item screens and equipment. It' ( Read more... )
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He flicked his flashlight beam after hers automatically, vaguely unsurprised to find nothing but a wall there.
"That's what happens when you spend all your time on long, hard paperwork and ignore the upkeep." Badou replied, deadpan. "Maybe the Institute's just feeling neglected."
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The upstairs hallway was empty, though Teresa could hear the sound of another group's passage down the hall.
"Yes," she stated as an asnwer to Rolo's question, but she left it up to him to understand that.
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But she managed to escape the stairwell before she answered him, with a simple "Yes." And that changed everything, Rolo's eyes widening slightly. He was here! If she knew of him, then was she an ally? Or an enemy? Before Rolo could really accept her answer, he had to know more.
"How do you know him? Did you see him? Where is he?" Suddenly, Rolo was very interested in what Teresa had to say and he didn't hide it.
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"I do not know where he is, nor have I actually met him," Teresa replied, choosing not to admit that she'd had visual conformation of Lelouch's presence earlier in the day. She also did not explain how she knew of him.
Teresa continued down the hallway, pausing to shine her light down a hallway to the left before she continued east.
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Closing his eyes for a moment, Rolo tried to summon all of the concentration he could. Geass was like a second nature to him. If he put his all into it, he should be able to -
"... Mmnn..!" But it didn't work, a burning pain spreading through his chest as Rolo repeated the events of this morning, trying in vain to summon his Geass. All he was rewarded with was pain and no matter how hard he tried, no matter how many times, it wouldn't work! It wouldn't work!
"AHH!" He finally couldn't take, bat and flashlight clattering to the ground as his body followed suit and Rolo fell on his knees, then on one hand as the other clutched on his chest. His breaths were short as he gasped for air, not even able to make coherent words.
"Uuu..." Why couldn't he use it?! Why?!
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"Looks like the gross stuff ain't continuing here," she commented as they headed further down the hallway. The only surroundings passing the beam of her light was just normal floor, wall and ceiling. Aside from the pipes she saw in the corner of her eye (which had disappeared again by the time she got a proper look at it), there was nothing here.
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He kept following Kuukaku down the hallway. He wasn't the type to let a lady lead, but she did seem to have some sort of a map, and he was quite sure she wouldn't share if asked.
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"Let's keep goin'!" she ordered.
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Since they wasted time at the chapel, Rolo moved quickly and just picked the next hallway at random. He could only hope they didn't run into anything else that would slow them down.
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The flesh floor and walls bled back into normal plaster not much further down the hall, like a grotesque gradient of sorts. Utena and Leonard ended up around the corner from the western half of the hall, next to the balcony. "Really, really hope they'll be okay," said Utena, glancing back over her shoulder worriedly and listening for any sounds of scuffle.
She sighed softly, and turned to the hallway ahead. She had no idea where to start looking for clues. None of the closed doors gave her any immediate hints, either. To make matters worse, when she turned her flashlight back on, she swore she could see another of the phantom doors caught in the beam. Just as before, however, it disappeared faster than she could focus on it.
"Uh, maybe the Chapel?" she suggested after a few long, silent moments. "They say Landel appeared in person there once a few weeks ago."
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He turned back to face the girl when she spoke. "Makes sense to me." Guess we're looking this guy. He fumbled through his pockets for his polaroids, his hands still shaking a little from the adrenaline running through him. He scanned them for a moment before returning them to his pocket and grabbing his camera.
"What did you say your name was, again?" he asked as he flipped the device open.
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"I have a system," he said as he wrote on the back of the now-developed photograph:
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