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"Oh bloody hell, not another one." Another room that looked not only useless, but confusing. He didn't even have a clue where this was. "We should--" he was cut off by the sound of the suddenly much larger door closing with a rather final sounding 'click' behind them. "...Keep going, apparently. There has to be another way out of this
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"Then let us find it," Ivan replied with more than a little false cheer. He stalked ahead through the darkness and haze of the hallway, almost daring anything to get in his way. He'd actually prefer it right about now, just to have something he could take out his frustrations on. Books and chairs were fine, but nothing was better than bruising flesh and breaking bones.
[Gah, sorry for the wait! This weekend was really crazy.]
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They didn't come to anything of note until a curved wall suddenly came out of the haze, with several back turns radiating from the central wall. "that might be a hub. Should we try one of the back paths? I can keep track of our heading and the turns we've taken." Somehow, he really doubted staying on their initial path would lead them anywhere.
[I have to apologize right back! Sorry for not tagging sooner! D8]
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Whatever Kirk had been expecting for their next unpredictable room jump, it was not... well. "What is this?" He pointed his flashlight around their new location, but the light barely penetrated a few feet into the strange haze that surrounded them. Not that there was much to see, apparently: grey, featureless stone walls in any direction, except for the large door right behind them. Closed, as if it had a mind of its own, like all the other doors they'd encountered tonight.
"Okay, this isn't the Institute or Doyleton." Impulsively, Kirk reached out to try to exit the same way, but... there didn't seem to be any way to get it open. No handle. No doorknob. He glared silently at the damn thing, trying to decide if a bruised shoulder was worth trying to ram open a door of this size.
First the man-frog-shark, now this? Somewhere out there, someone had to be laughing at him.
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So they were being forced to stay in this room. Great.
If one could... accurately call it a room. The walls reached so high that their connection to the ceiling was barely visible from the glow of the flashlights, and they were all solid gray stone. The stone walls themselves weren't all that kept visibility to a minimum; the room seemed hazy, like it was filled with fog.
So options were limited. Well.
"Might as well start walking," the Nobody suggested, already taking off on his own. He kept one gloved hand solidly on the wall to his right, dragging his fingertips along the uneven, beaten stones.
Where was Luxord when you needed him? He was probably good at mazes.
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Assuming this was the Institute. For a certainty, they were still under Landel's sadistic jurisdiction, but if the head doctor was keeping a labyrinth somewhere in his hospital, it wasn't on any of Chekov's maps. And then there was the silence. For hours, no matter where he was, the falling rain had lurked in the background, but here... nothing. Less than nothing. If ( ... )
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Upon entering the room, Sai froze - firstly, because it wasn't supposed to be a room. The ninja had walked out the door leading to the Rec Field numerous times over the course of his stay and never once had it led to... wherever this was. Turning back to the door they'd just entered through, he realized it didn't even look like the one he'd just entered.
It was unexpected, to say the least.
But could they turn back around and go back? They'd been ordered to run, and there was no reason for them to head right back into the combat zone. There only real option was to go forward. And who knew? This could be a new opportunity.
"...Do either of you recognize this location?" He asked, even as he listened carefully to see if they'd been followed.
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But as they passed through the door, Artemis felt the distinctly unpleasant feeling of being thrown out of a window while spinning. Only instead of landing on pavement below, he was still standing when the feeling subsided. Another shocking thing: he wasn't being pelted by water. He was inside.
Blinking, he took stock of where they were and quickly realized that something had gone very, very wrong. As in, "Go Through One Door, End Up In A Place That Door Definitely Does Not Lead To" brand wrong.
"No..." Artemis said slowly, casting his flashlight around the foggy corridor. "I have no idea where we are." Which, he had to admit, was a little unnerving considering Artemis Fowl almost always knew where he was. At least which timezone.
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"I've never seen this place before." Which made it a dangerous place and one he would very much like to leave. "It would seem we're at the whims of Landel again."
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The path in front of them appeared straight and linear, but it was difficult to see very far ahead of their current position, and anything could be waiting in the thick fog. Things could get ugly if they were attacked, since it would be easy to separate them so he couldn't see his charge anymore. Haku could handle himself, but Artemis... "Stay against the walls as well."
This hall had to lead somewhere, even if it was just into further danger. Sai kept his machete ready.
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