Night 47: Main Hallway, 1-Center
[From here]Tyki moved further down the hallway at an easy pace, noticing the lack of other patients around here but he didn't really care much about it. Perhaps it meant no one would snag any smokes away from under his nose this time, but then again, that may have been too optimistic. Eh, but that hardly meant that another person would get away
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Mello planned to detour by his room and pick up the flashlight before heading out. Navigating halls he'd memorized by now was one thing, but the unfamiliar terrain outside would be another. Carrying two weapons had also served him well last time he'd ventured outdoors at night. He was still thoroughly irritated by the computer's lack of cooperation and the attitude Teresa had given him about it, and he stalked along quickly, mostly ignoring the other night-time wanderers.
[for Niikura]
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Niikura walked down the hallway, taking his time in observing the people around him and the layout of the hall itself. He'd gone down this hall while leaving the Sun Room only a few hours before, which placed it, according to his mental map, somewhere off to the right of the patients' rooms. Assuming that the patient blocks weren't at the center of the building, did that mean he was near the entrance? This sounded a little too easy.
As he backed up to get a better look at the door to his left, Niikura accidentally stepped into the path of someone behind him and clipped the other man on the shoulder. Flailing, he whipped around, trying to see who was there with his flashlight. There he was - shorter man with, if the light hadn't been playing tricks on him, a pretty large scar down the side of his face. And scars typically meant...well, hopefully this guy wasn't going to give him too much grief for crashing into him.
"Oh man, I'm so sorry about that. I was just tryin' to find the door out, didn't see you..."
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He looked the guy over. What was with this place and freakishly tall people? The hair didn't win the kid any points either. "Doors are that way." He jerked a thumb in the direction of the cafeteria.
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And was it just him, or had this guy just pointed him in the wrong direction? "And I'm lookin' for the exit, not the Sun Room," he said earnestly. He swished the flashlight's beam back and forth on the correct wall for good measure. "Know it's over here somewhere, so I was backin' up to try to get a wider sweepin' radius with my flashlight."
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"You're pretty new, huh, kid?"
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"And I'm almost as new as you can get. Woke up during lunch, so right now I'm just gettin' my bearings, I guess." What was with this "kid" business, though? This guy was almost a head shorter than him. Maybe it was his hair - too youthful-looking or something. Well too bad. He liked his style.
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He started back towards the hallway his room was on, glancing back. "I'm Morgan, by the way. Do you remember what you were doing right before you got here?"
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"As for what I was doing, hm..." Oh, why not? It would be interesting to see how Morgan reacted. "I was dying - or rather, I died," Niikura said with no trace of regret or sadness in his voice.
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Niikura was in for a disappointment if he expected a freakout over his revelation. Mello raised an eyebrow, his attention sharpened, and he had to silently admire the calm with which the other man spoke about it, but that was all. L here hadn't experienced his own death yet, but there was still little anyone could say that would shock Mello quite as much as seeing his idol again had.
[To here.]
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